A Dead Person Appearing and Meeting Someone After a Long Time

Question

Question: A deceased saintly man, five hundred years after his death, met a certain person just as living people do, wrote a reply to a letter and read it out to him. Can such an event take place or not?

Answer

If someone is granted permission for it by Allah the Pure, such a thing is not beyond the power of the Truth; however, events of this kind are not mentioned by way of example in the Holy Qur’an and the noble hadiths. Hazrat ‘Isa’s ﵇ bringing the dead to life as a mu‘jiza (a prophetic miracle) is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and the noble hadith.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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