Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Between the two blasts of the Trumpet will be forty.” They said, “O Abu Huraira, forty days?” He said, “I cannot say.” They said, “Forty years?” He said, “I cannot say.” They said, “Forty months?” He said, “I cannot say.” And the Prophet said, “Everything of the human being will decay except for his coccyx tailbone, by which his creation is reconstructed.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4814, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2955
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
Imam Ibn Hajar commented, “Ibn ‘Uqayl said, ‘Allah has a hidden wisdom in this that none knows except Allah, for the One who brings existence forth from non-existence has no need of anything upon which to build.’ It is also possible that this was made as a sign for the angels indicating that every human being will be resurrected with his very essence, and that the angels would not attain knowledge of this except through the preservation of a bone from each person—so that it would be known what is intended thereby is the return of the souls to those very entities of which that bone is a part. If nothing of them were preserved, the angels might suppose that the restoration was to bodies similar to the former ones, rather than to the same bodies themselves. His statement, ‘Everything of the human being decays,’ may mean that it perishes, that is, that its parts are entirely annihilated; and it may also mean that it undergoes transformation, such that its familiar form disappears and it becomes like the substances of earth, then is restored when it is reassembled into what was previously known.”
Source: Fatḥ al-Bārī 8/552-553
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَيْنَ النَّفْخَتَيْنِ أَرْبَعُونَ قَالُوا يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَرْبَعُونَ يَوْمًا قَالَ أَبَيْتُ قَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً قَالَ أَبَيْتُ قَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ شَهْرًا وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَبَيْتُ وَيَبْلَى كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْإِنْسَانِ إِلَّا عَجْبَ ذَنَبِهِ فِيهِ يُرَكَّبُ الْخَلْقُ
4814 صحيح البخاري سورة الزمر باب قوله ونفخ في الصور فصعق من في السماوات ومن في الأرض
2955 صحيح مسلم كتاب الفتن وأشراط الساعة باب ما بين النفختين
قال ابن حجر قَالَ ابْنُ عُقَيْلٍ لِلَّهِ فِي هَذَا سِرٌّ لَا يَعْلَمُهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، لِأَنَّ مَنْ يُظْهِرُ الْوُجُودَ مِنَ الْعَدَمِ لَا يَحْتَاجُ إِلَى شَيْءٍ يَبْنِي عَلَيْهِ وَيَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ ذَلِكَ جُعِلَ عَلَامَةً لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ عَلَى إِحْيَاءِ كُلِّ إِنْسَانٍ بِجَوْهَرِهِ وَلَا يَحْصُلُ الْعِلْمُ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ بِذَلِكَ إِلَّا بِإِبْقَاءِ عَظْمِ كُلِّ شَخْصٍ لِيُعْلَمَ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا أَرَادَ بِذَلِكَ إِعَادَةَ الْأَرْوَاحِ إِلَى تِلْكَ الْأَعْيَانِ الَّتِي هِيَ جُزْءٌ مِنْهَا وَلَوْلَا إِبْقَاءُ شَيْءٍ مِنْهَا لَجَوَّزَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ أَنَّ الْإِعَادَةَ إِلَى أَمْثَالِ الْأَجْسَادِ لَا إِلَى نَفْسِ الْأَجْسَادِ وَقَوْلُهُ فِي الْحَدِيثِ وَيَبْلَى كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْإِنْسَانِ يَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يُرِيدَ بِهِ يَفْنَى أَيْ تُعْدَمُ أَجْزَاؤُهُ بِالْكُلِّيَّةِ وَيَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يُرَادَ بِهِ يَسْتَحِيلُ فَتَزُولُ صُورَتُهُ الْمَعْهُودَةُ فَيَصِيرُ عَلَى صِفَةِ جِسْمِ التُّرَابِ ثُمَّ يُعَادُ إِذَا رُكِّبَتْ إِلَى مَا عُهِدَ وَزَعَمَ بَعْضُ الشُّرَّاحِ أَنَّ الْمُرَادَ أَنَّهُ لَا يَبْلَى أَيْ يَطُولُ بَقَاؤُهُ لَا أَنَّهُ لَا يَفْنَى أَصْلًا
8/552-553 فتح الباري بشرح البخاري سورة الزمر باب ونفخ في الصور فصعق من في السماوات ومن في الأرض إلا من شاء الله ثم نفخ فيه أخرى فإذا هم قيام ينظرون
