Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī · Questioning in the Grave, Chastisement in the Grave, and Barzakh
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حدثنا الحسين بن سعيد قال: حدثنا النضر بن سويد عن عاصم بن حميد عن أبي بصير قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول:: إذا وضع الرجل في قبره أتاه ملكان ملك عن يمينه وملك عن شماله وأقيم الشيطان بين يديه عيناه مثل النحاس فيقال له: كيف تقول في هذا الرجل الذي كان بين (أظهركم) ظهرانيكم؟ قال: فيفزع له فزعة (فليفزع لذلك فزعا عظيما) فيقول إذا كان مؤمنا: (أ) عن محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله تسألاني؟ فيقولان له: نعم نومة لا حلم فيها ويفسح له في قبره (تسع) تسعة أذرع ثم يرى مقعده في الجنة وهو قول الله عز وجل: (يثبت الله الذين آمنوا بالقول الثابت في الحياة الدنيا وفى الآخرة) فإذا) وإذا) كان كافرا يقولان له: (ما من هذا الرجل الذي خرج بين ظهرانيكم؟ فيقول: لا أدرى فيخليان بينه وبين الشيطان
1.Al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd narrated to us saying, “Al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd narrated to us from ʿĀṣim ibn Ḥamīd, from Abū Baṣīr who said, ‘I heard Abā ʿAbdillāh (a) say, “When a person is placed in his grave, two angels come to him, one angel from his right and another from his left; and Satan is made to stand in front of him, his two eyes looking [intensely red] like copper. Then he is asked, ‘What do you say about the man who came before you [as a Prophet]?’ He will be overwhelmed by fear and then, if he is a believer, he will say, ‘Are you asking me about Muḥammad, the Messenger of Allah (ṣ)?’ So they will say to him, ‘Sleep a slumber wherein there is no dream,’ and his grave will be widened by nine cubits. Then he will see his place in Paradise; and that is [what is referred to in] the verse wherein Allah, the Almighty, says: Allah makes the believers steadfast with the firm word [of faith] in this worldly life and in the Hereafter (Q14:27). If [on the other hand] he is a disbeliever, they will ask him, ‘What [do you say] of the man who came before you [as a Prophet]?’ He will reply, ‘I do not know.’ So they will leave him alone with Satan.”’”
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