Part 70

The Haud That People Will Come To Is Before The Extended Siraat; Whatever Conveys A Different Understanding Is Either Weak, Rejected, Or Subject To Interpretation

A questioner might ask, “Will the Haud (Basin) come before passing on the Siraat or after it?” The apparent meaning of the preceding, narrations indicates that it will come before the Siraat, because people who are described as having continued to turn back on their heels after the Prophet's death are driven away from the Haud. If those people are in fact disbelievers, then we must keep in mind that the disbeliever does not get across the Siraat (path over the Hellfire); rather he will be turned over onto his face in the Hellfire, before he gets across the Siraat (ie., he does not cross the Siraat to safety). If they are sinners from the Muslims, then it is unlikely that they will

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be kept from the Haud, especially considering that upon them are marks of the ablution (Al-Widoo). The Prophet 28 said, “I will know you, for you will be Ghurr (whiteness in the forehead; the faces of the believers will shine on the Day of Resurrection), Muhajjaloon (the places they wash in their Wudoo, ablution, will shine) from the effects of AlL-Wudoo (the ablution).””

At-Titmidhee said, “This hadith is Hasan Ghareeb, and we know it only through this chain.” The point here is that the apparent wording of this Hadecth indicates that the Haud comes after the Siraat (path over the Hellfire), and after the Meezaan as well. Yet | know of no scholar who holds that view; perhaps there is a second Haud from which no one will be driven away {ie., one that is for the believers after the Siraaf), and Allah % knows best

If the correct view is that the Haud (Basin) comes before the Siraat, then do the occurrences related to the Haud (Basin) come before the placing of the Kursee (Footstool) for judgment to be passed or after that? Both answers are possible, and I see nothing that is conclusive in the matter. Allah a knows which of the two occurs first.

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The Correct Opinion Of The Scholars Is That The Haud (Basin) Comes Before The Meezaan (Scale)

There is a difference of opinion regarding whether the Haud is before the Meezaan. Abul-Hasan Al-Qaabisee said, “The correct view is that the Haud is before (the Meezaan).” Al-Qurtubee said, “The meaning (of the narrations) indicates that people will be thirsty when they come out of their graves,” and we have mentioned this earlier. Therefore the Haud (Basin) comes before the Meezaan and the Siraat, In the book ‘Ilm Kashf Al-Aakhirah, Abu Haamid AlGhazzaalee said, ‘Some authors from our predecessors have related that people will go to the Haud after the Siraat’ Whoever said that or related that is mistaken. Al-Qurtubee related the hadith in which those who turned back on their heels, moving backwards, are prevented from the Haud. He then said, “As it is authentic, this hadith is the strongest proof to show that the Hand will be at the Mawgif (where people will be standing, waiting for Judgment) and before the Siraat, because whoever crosses the Siraat will be safe.” We have hitherto given this explanation, and all praise is for Allah.

The Specifications Of The Length And Width Of The Haud Differ According To Who The Messenger of Allah % Was Addressing; He Mentioned For Each Person Places That He Knew

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will rule between His slaves. It is related in a hadith that on each of its sides is one of the four Khaleefahs. Abu Bakr 2 is on the first corner; ‘Umar # is on the second; ‘Uthmaan # is on the third; ‘Alee a is on the fourth — may Allah be pleased with them all.” We have related this from the Ghailaaniyaat, and its chain is not authentic, for some of its narrators are weak.

Allah # Will Come On The Day Of Resurrection To Rule Between His Slaves

We have already related the following in the hadith of fasting: After Adam #8} and the Prophets after him axe asked to intercede and after each one of them says, ‘I am not the one for you,’ the maiter ends at the Prophet #%, who goes to intercede with his Lord, so that He #% judges between His slaves. Then the angels descend. First the inhabitants of the sky of this world descend, and they are in number like the inhabitants of the earth — from jinn and mankind. Those angels will surround them ina circle. Then the second heaven will be cleft asunder, and the angels (from it) will descend; these angels are equal in number to the,inhabitants of the earth, and then they will surround them in a circle. The same will occur for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh heavens: the inhabitants of each heaven will surround those who came before them. Then the Kuroobiyyoon angels will descend and so too will the chosen bearers of the Throne. They will have a chant of At-Tasbeeh, Al-Taqdees, and At-Ta’zeem (gloritying, exalting, and magnifying Allah #). They will say, ‘How perfect is the Possessor of Glory and Power; How perfect is the Possessor of the Dominion and the Kingdom; How perfect is He Who never dies; How perfect is He Who makes the creation die but never dies Himself; Perfect and Holy He is! How perfect is our Lord, the Most High — the Lord of the angels and the Rooht (Jibreel). How perfect is our Lord, the Most High, Who causes the creation to die, but never dies Himself.”

Ibn ‘Abbaas 4 said, “On the Day of Resurrection, the earth will be

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stretched like the stretching of tanned leather; it will be increased in its capacity by such and such (amount), The creation will be gathered on one plane — the jinn from them and the human beings from them, When that happens, the heaven of the world will be seized from its inhabitants, being spread out over the face of the earth, And the inhabitants of this heaven alone twice outnumber all of the inhabitants of earth, both the jinn and humans from them. When the inhabitants of the earth see them, they will hurry to them ina state of alarm, saying, ‘Is our Lord among you” The inhabitants of that first heaven will be alarmed by their saying, and they will answer, ‘How perfect is our Lord! He is not among, us, and He is coming.’ Then the heavens are seized one at a time. Each time a heaven is seized, it will have more inhabitants that the inhabitants of the heaven underneath it, and more than all of the inhabitants of earth, both the jinn of them and human of them, by D‘aif (a multiple of times over). Each time they pass on the face of the earth, its inhabitants race to them, frightened, saying the same as they said before, and the response of the inhabitants will be the same too, until the seventh heaven is seized. Its inhabitants alone outnumber the inhabitants of the six heavens and the inhabitants of the earth by D'aif (a multiple of times over). And Allah 8 will come among them, and the nations will be in rows, A caller will call out: ‘You will know who are the ones of honor today; let those stand who would: Bo eee fee asge cae aw ee Maa CAS phere “Their sides forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend (charity in Allah's Cause) out of what We have bestowed on them’

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“Neither trade nor sale diverts them from the Remembrance of

Allah (with heart and tongue), for from performing As-salah

(Iqaamus-salah), nor from giving the Zakaat. They fear a Day when

hearts and eyes will be overturned (from the horror of the torment of

the Day of Resurrection)“ They will then stand, and be sent to Paradise. When these are taken, a neck from the Hellfire will come out, and will overlook the creation. It will have two seeing eyes and an eloquent tongue. It will say, ‘I have indeed been entrusted with three: with every haughty, stubborn one,’ and it will pick them up from the ranks just as the bird picks up sesame seeds. It will imprison them in the Hellfire, after which it will come out a second time and say, ‘I have been entrusted with the people of pictures (those who would make pictures),’ and it will pick them up from the rows like the bird picks up sesame seeds, and then it will imprison them in the Hellfire. When these and those are taken, the scrolls are spread out, the scales are placed and erected, and the creation is attentive for the taking of the account.” Abu Bakr ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa related this in AlAhwaal. And Allah 3% said: