Sahih Ibn Hibban 3117
✧ A Chapter on the condition of the deceased in their grave
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدٌ الْمَقْبُرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«إِذَا قُبِرَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَوِ الْإِنْسَانُ أَتَاهُ مَلَكَانِ أَسْوَدَانِ أَزْرَقَانِ يُقَالُ لِأَحَدِهِمَا الْمُنْكَرُ وَالْآخَرُ النَّكِيرُ فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ مَا كُنْتَ تَقُولُ فِي هَذَا الرَّجُلِ مُحَمَّدٍ؟ فَهُوَ قَائِلٌ مَا كَانَ يَقُولُ فَإِنْ كَانَ مُؤْمِنًا قَالَ هُوَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولُهُ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ إِنْ كُنَّا لِنَعْلَمُ إِنَّكَ لَتَقُولُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ يَفْسَحُ لَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فِي سَبْعِينَ ذِرَاعًا وَيُنَوَّرُ لَهُ فِيهِ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ نَمْ فَيَنَامُ كَنَوْمَةِ الْعَرُوسِ الَّذِي لَا يُوقِظُهُ إِلَّا أَحَبُّ أَهْلِهِ إِلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْعَثَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ مَضْجَعِهِ ذَلِكَ وَإِنْ كَانَ مُنَافِقًا قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي كُنْتُ أَسْمَعُ النَّاسَ يَقُولُونَ شَيْئًا فَكُنْتُ أَقُولُهُ فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ إِنْ كُنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ تَقُولُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لِلْأَرْضِ الْتَئِمِي عَلَيْهِ فَتَلْتَئِمُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى تَخْتَلِفَ فِيهَا أَضْلَاعُهُ فَلَا يَزَالُ مُعَذَّبًا حَتَّى يَبْعَثَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ مَضْجَعِهِ ذَلِكَ»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī
- Bishr b. Muʿādh al-ʿAqadī
- Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Isḥāq
- Saʿīd al-Maqburī
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ When one of you—or the person—is buried, two black, blue-eyed angels come to him. One is called Munkar and the other Nakir. They say to him: 'What did you say about this man Muhammad?' He will say what he used to say. If he was a believer, he says: 'He is the servant of Allah and His Messenger. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger.' They say: 'We knew that you would say that.' Then his grave is widened for him seventy cubits by seventy cubits, and it is illuminated for him. Then it is said to him: 'Sleep.' He sleeps like the sleep of a bride whom no one wakes except the dearest of her family, until Allah raises him from that resting place. If he was a hypocrite, he says: 'I do not know. I heard people saying something, and I said it.' They say: 'We knew that you would say that.' Then it is said to the earth: 'Close in on him,' and it closes in on him until his ribs interlace. He remains punished until Allah raises him from that resting place.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1338Sahih al-Bukhari 1374Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1071
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHسَعِيدٌ الْمَقْبُرِيُّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadard. between 141 AH and 150 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق رمي بالقدرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .حدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 245 AH, or shortly before it, or shortly after itبِشْرُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَقَدِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- d. 311 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.