A'Hadiths
Guidance from The Prophet (saws)
Hadrat Abu Saeed Al-Khudri (r.a.) reported: 'The Messenger of Allah (saws) said, "When a dead body is placed on a bier and men carry it on their shoulders, if the body is of one who was pious, it says: `Take me in haste.` But if the body is of one who was impious, it says to its bearers: `Woe to it. Where are you taking it?` Everything except mankind hears its voice. Had a human-being heard its voice, he would have surely fallen into a swoon.``
Related by Bukhari.
Commentary:
What exactly happens after death is obviously from amongst the knowledge of the 'unseen'; and that knowledge is known to none save Allah Subhanah Alone. Allah Subhanah makes known to His Messengers what He Wills and Pleases from amongst the knowledge of the 'unseen'.
When one who is pious is taken for its burial, it wishes to hasten towards its final destination of good; but when one who is impious is taken for its burial it wails and laments and pleads and implores the bearers of its body to not place it in its grave…for it knows well what punishments lie in wait for it!
Everyone and everything except man and Jinns can hear the lamentation of this evil soul; and in another hadith the Messenger of Allah (saws) declared that if man could hear the lamentation of the impious in their graves, man would stop burying the deceased amongst them!
May Allah Subhanah have Mercy on the believers, and save them from the trials of the grave and the trials of the Hell Fire. Ameen.
A'Hadiths
Guidance from The Prophet (saws)
Hadrat Anas ibn Malik (r.a.) reported: 'The Messenger of Allah (saws) used to break his fast before performing the 'maghrib' prayer with three fresh dates; if there were no fresh dates, he will eat three dry dates; and if there were no dry dates, he would take three draughts of water.'
Related by Tirmidhi.
Commentary:
The Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws) when breaking his fast was to break his fast before performing the obligatory 'magrib' prayer by eating three fresh dates; if fresh dates were not available, he (saws) would eat three dry dates; and if even dry dates were not available, then he (saws) would break his fast by consuming three draughts of water.
A'Hadiths
Guidance from The Prophet (saws)
Hadrat Aishah (r.a.), the mother of the believers, reported: 'The Messenger of Allah (saws) never omitted four rakah (voluntary) prayer before the 'dhuhr' prayer and the two rakah (voluntary) prayer before dawn (Fajr) prayer.'
Related by Bukhari.
Commentary:
Amongst the 'nafl' or extra prayers which the Prophet (saws) never failed to offer were the four-rakah voluntary prayers before the obligatory 'dhuhr' prayer and the two-rakah voluntary prayer before the obligatory 'fajr' prayer.
These six-rakahs are amongst the twelve rakahs of what is known as the Sunnah Muaqqedah prayers which the Prophet (saws) almost never ever missed. The other Sunnah Muaqqedah prayers other than the ones listed above are:
1. two-rakahs after the obligatory 'dhuhr' prayer.
2. two-rakahs after the obligatory 'magrib' prayer.
3. and two-rakahs after the obligatory 'isha' prayer.
JAZZAK ALLAH KHAIR,
Ch.Usman Ali
