Life of the Grave - It's Delights and Horrors until Resurrection: Ahwal al-Qubur wa Ahwal Ahliha ila An-Nushur

Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali

Sep 2022 · Turath Publishing

About this ebook

We are Well-Informed about our lives, our homes, our encounters and the people we experience them with. This book, Life of the Grave: its Delights and Horrors until Resurrection, is a detailed overview of the next stage in our journey. It is Ibn Rajab’s contribution to the topic of life after death and the grave. It presents a thorough study of our belief in terms of the grave, the questioning, its rewards and its horrors. It also discusses the circumstances of the inhabitants of the grave and what they experience in an effort to try and prepare us for the inevitable. Using the Qur’an, hadith, stories of the pious predecessors and poetry, Ibn Rajab presents us with content to ponder over, reflect and take as admonishment so that our hardened hearts may become soft and receptive to the words of Allah ﷻ and His beloved Messenger ﷺ.

About the author

Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī (795AH/1392CE) was born in Baghdad where he began his studies with his father, who himself was a great scholar. He the studied in Egypt and Damascus where he settled until he died. He devoted himself to hadith and fiqh according to the Ḥanbalī school until he became an expert in the fields, eventually teaching the subjects at the Jāmiʿ Banī Umayyah and other seats of learning in Damascus. He was known for his piety and righteousness and the hearts of people were full of love for him. Among his best known and most referenced works is Jāmiʿ al-ʿUlūm wa al-Ḥikam (Published by Turath Publishing ), the commentary on al-Arbaʿīn (the forty hadith) of Imam Nawawī. Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī said of him, ‘He was a great expert in the sciences of hadith—the historical accounts of narrators, the chains of narration and meaning of the text.