The Life of the Prophets in Their Graves and the Hearing of the Dead

Question

(1) What have the sound hadiths said about the life of the prophets ﵈? Are they alive in the very grave in which their blessed bodies were buried — with that same worldly blessed body, in that same grave? Is the blessed soul in the station of the Highest Companion (al-Rafiq al-A‘la), or in that same blessed body? The hadiths mention the prophets ﵈ praying in their graves: do they perform that prayer with that same most pure blessed body, or in some other form — with souls in the shape of likenesses?

Answer

(1) The earth cannot consume the pure bodies of the prophets ﵈; they are preserved. In al-Bayhaqi it is related: [ar]وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ: الْأَنْبِيَاءُ لَا يُتْرَكُونَ فِي قُبُورِهِمْ بَعْدَ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ يُصَلُّونَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللهِ تَعَالَى حَتَّى يُنْفَخَ فِي الصُّورِ — إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: قَالَ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ: فَعَلَى هَذَا يَصِيرُونَ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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