[ابوالوليد المسلم]

The Intercession (5)

‘Abdullah ibn Hamoud al-Furaih


Formation, clarification and explanation (2):
The Hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that preceded in which there is an explanation of the situation at that situation and their request for intercession. It came in many narrations and similar Hadiths. The appearance of the intercession in the Hadiths overlap. For example, it came in this Hadith in the two Sahih from the Hadith of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) also. In it there are these additions:

“I would fall down in prostration, and He (Allah) would leave me thus as long as He would wish, and then it would be said: O Muhammad, raise your head, say and you would be heard; ask and it would be granted; intercede and intercession would be accepted. Then I would raise my head and extrol my Lord with the praise which my Lord would teach me. I shall then intercede, but a limit would be set for me I would bring them out from the Fire and make them enter Paradise (according to the limit). I shall return then ard fall down in pros- tration and Allah would leave me (in that position) as long as He would wish to leave me it would be said: Rise, O Muhammad, say and you would be heard; ask and it would be conferred; intercede and intercession would be granted. I would raise my head and extrol my Lord with praise that He would teach me. I would theft intercede and a limit would be set for me. I would bring them out of the Fire (of Hell) and make them enter Paradise..”

In it (the Hadith): “I do not remember whether he (the Holy Prophet) said at the third time or at the fourth time: O my Lord, none has been left in the Fire, but thise restrained by the Holy Qur'an, i e. those who were eternally doomed.”

In it: it is mentioned the fourth time: “O my Lord, none has been left in the Fire, but thise restrained by the Holy Qur'an, i e. those who were eternally doomed. Meaning: They must have intercession”[1]

Al Bukhari adds: “Then he recites the verses:

}عَسَىٰ أَن يَبْعَثَكَ رَبُّكَ مَقَامًا مَّحْمُودًا{

“It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Station of Praise and Glory”

He said: This is the Station of Praise and Glory which Allah has promised to your Prophet.[2]

In the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah and Huzaifa (may Allah be pleased with them): “They would come to Muhammad (peace be upon him). He would then be permitted (to open the door of Paradise). Trustworthiness and kinship would be despatched, and these would stand on the right and left of the Path and the first of you would pass with (the swiftness) of lightning…”[3]

In Al Bukhari there is the Hadith of Ibn Omar (may Allah be pleased with them): “On the Day of Resurrection the people will fall on their knees and every nation will follow their prophet and they will say, "O so-and-so! Intercede (for us with Allah), "till (the right) intercession is given to the Prophet (Muhammad) and that will be the day when Allah will raise him into a station of praise and glory (i.e. Al-Maqam -al-Mahmud).”[4]

Muslim narrated the Hadith of Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “I would be the first among people to intercede in the Paradise and amongst the apostles I would have the largest following (on the Day of Resurrection).”[5]

In the two Sahih there is the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “There was for every apostle a prayer with which he prayed for his Ummah and it was granted to him; but I wish, if Allah so wills, to defer my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.”[6]

Muslim (also narrates) in a narration): “it would be granted, if Allah so willed, in case of everyone amongst my Ummah provided he dies without associating anything with Allah”[7]

Besides this (there is a) Hadith in the two Sahih of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him)[8] and for Muslim besides it of Jabir ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him)[9]

If you ponder upon these narrations and others that we mentioned, you will find that the intercession at the start of the Hadith is for the people at the position and what has reached them from worry and sorrow. The Prophet (peace be upon him) intercedes for them in order to relieve them of their sorrows and because of the coming of judgement and reckoning. At the end of these Hadiths there is an intercession for the people of Paradise to enter Paradise. Likewise there is an intercession to relieve the monotheists, taking them out of the fire and (putting them) in Paradise.


[1] Narrated by Al Bukhari number (7510). Narrated by Muslim number (193)

[2] Narrated by Al Bukhari number (7440)

[3] Narrated by Muslim number (195)

[4] Narrated by Al Bukhari number (4718)

[5] Narrated by Muslim number (196)

[6] Narrated by Al Bukhari number (6304). Narrated by Muslim number (199)

[7] Narrated by Muslim number (199)

[8] Narrated by Al Bukhari number (6305). Narrated by Muslim number (200)

[9] Look at: Sharh Al Tahawiya (page 255)