🔸First Ḥadīth.

Anas b. Mālik reported: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ as saying: “I came.” And in the narration transmitted on the authority of Haddib (the words are): “I happened to pass by Moses (‘alayhis-salām) on the occasion of the Night journey near the red mound (and found him) 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞.” 

Note: Praying inside grave represents ḥaqīqī life!

📙 — [Saḥīḥ Muslim 5858; Sunan an-Nasā’ī vol. 2, ḥadīth no. 1630-1636; Sunan al-Kubrā' vol. 2, ḥadīth no. 1330]

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🔸Second Ḥadīth.

Anas b. Mālik reported: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.”

📙 — [Al-Bayhaqī in Ḥayāh tul-Anbiyā' Pg. 3; Abū Ya’lā in his Musnad vol. 6, Pg. 3425; al-Haythamī in Majma’ al-Zawāid ḥadīth no. 13812; al-Albānī in Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Saḥīḥah vol. 2, Pg. 187, ḥadīth no. 621]

The narrators of this ḥadīth is 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 and is mentioned by Imām Ibn ‘Adī and Imām al-Bayhaqī. Imām Ibn ‘Adī said there is no harm in the chain. Imām Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalānī writes in Fatḥ al-Bārī: “Imām Bayhaqī has compiled a fabulous book on Ḥayāt of Anbiyā in their graves, there he has narrated a ḥadīth from Ḥadrat Anas that Prophets are alive in their graves and praying. He has narrated this ḥadīth from the route of Yaḥyā bin Abī Kathīr and he is narrator of Saḥīḥ, (Next Page No. 603) he has narrated from Mustalim bin Sa’īd who is declared as 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐐𝐀 (sound) by Imām Aḥmad and Imām Ibn Ḥibbān, from Ḥajāj al-Aswad and he is Ibn Abī Ziyād al-Basrī whom Imām Aḥmad and (Yaḥyā) bin Ma’een declared 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐐𝐀 (sound) from Thābit and Imām Abū Ya’lā has also mentioned this ḥadīth in his Musnad on the same way.... 𝐀𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐫'𝐚̄𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐬.”

📙 — [Fatḥ al-Bārī, vol. 6, Pg. 602-603]

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🔸Third Ḥadīth.

Narrated on the authority of Abū Dardā: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: "Invoke many blessings on me on Friday for it is witnessed. The angels are present on it, and no one will invoke a blessing on me without his blessing being submitted to me till he stops. I asked whether that applied also after his death, and he replied: ‘𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚̄𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐬; 𝐬𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚̄𝐡’𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.’”

📙 — [Sunan ibn Mājah vol. 1, ḥadīth no 1627]

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith al-Dehlawī states under the commentary of this Ḥadīth that: “The Prophets of Allāh are alive in their graves, JUST AS THEY WERE ALIVE IN THE WORLD.” Also, he clarifies another important point, he states: “The Prophets are alive and everyone believes that they are alive; there is no disagreement in this. Their life (in their graves) IS REAL, PHYSICAL LIFE (LIKE THEY POSSESSED IN THE WORLD) not like the Martyrs whose life is only spiritual.”

📙 — [Ash’āt al-Lam’āt vol. 1, Pg. 574-576]

Note: Allāh’s prohibition for the Earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets is also narrated through Aws bin Aws in Sunan ibn Mājah ḥadīth no. 1626 and Abū Dāwūd ḥadīth no. 1526. Additionally, this ḥadīth has been recorded by following scholars: 

📙 — Imām an-Nawawī said “isnād is Saḥīḥ” in Kitāb Al-Adhkār vol. 1, Pg 131-132. 

📙 — Imām Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalānī in Fatḥ al-Bārī vol 6, Pg 562.

📙 — Imām Tabarānī in Mu’jam al Awsat vol. 5, Pg. 97.

📙 — Imām Ibn Abī Shaybah in his Musannaf, book As Salāh, vol. 6, Pg. 40

📙 — Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal in his Musnad vol. 26, Pg. 84.

📙 — Imām Bazzār in Musnad al-Bazzār vol. 8, Pg. 411.

📙 — Imām Ibn al-Ḥibbān in his Saḥīḥ, book Ar Raqāiq, vol. 3, Pg. 190-191.

📙 — Imām Ibn Khuzayma in his Saḥīḥ, vol. 3, Pg. 118.

📙 — Imām al-Bayhaqī in Shu’b al Imān vol. 4, Pg. 432.

📙 — Imām Dārimī in Sunan Dārimī, book As Salāh, vol. 1, Pg. 1.

📙 — Imām Ibn Kathīr in Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-Azīm vol. 6, Pg. 473.

📙 — Imām Nasā'ī in Sunan, book as-Salāh, vol. 2, Pg. 101.