🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

A reminder of the conditions of the dead and matters of the afterlife

التذكرة بأحوال الموتى وأمور الآخرة

Author: أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن أبي بكر بن فرح الأنصاري الخزرجي شمس الدين القرطبي (المتوفى: 671هـ) (d. 671)

About this work

التذكرة بأحوال الموتى وأمور الآخرة. كتاب ألفه أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن أبي بكر بن فرح الأنصاري الخزرجي شمس الدين القرطبي (المتوفى: 671هـ)، يدور موضوع الكتاب على أحوال الموتى وما يتعلق بها من أمور الآخرة، ورتب المؤلف موضوعه ترتيبا راعى فيه تسلسل الموضوعات وقسمه إلى أربع وحدات: الوحدة الأولى: الموت ومقدماته ثم القبر وعذابه ونعيمه وما ينجي منه إلى نفخ البعث. الوحدة الثانية: تبدأ بالبعث والنشور والنفخ في الصور، والحشر والموقف وأهواله وما ينجي منه. الوحدة الثالثة: في دخول أهل الجنة الجنة وما أعد الله لأهلها من النعيم المقيم، وفي دخول أهل النار النار وما أعد لأهلها من العذاب الأليم. …

Translation

A reminder of the conditions of the dead and matters of the afterlife. A book written by Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Abi Bakr bin Farah Al-Ansari Al-Khazraji Shams al-Din al-Qurtubi (died 671 AH). The subject of the book revolves around the conditions of the dead and the matters related to them in the afterlife. The author arranged his subject in an order that took into account the sequence of topics and divided it into four units: The first unit: death and its introduction, then the grave, its torment, its bliss, and what emerges from it until the breath of resurrection. The second unit: It begins with the resurrection, the resurrection, the blowing of images, the gathering, the situation and its horrors, and what one will be saved from. The third unit: On the people of Paradise entering Paradise and what God has prepared for its people of lasting bliss, and on the people of Hell entering Hell and the painful punishment He has prepared for its people. …

Topics covered

Chapter on the permissibility of wishing for death and praying for it for fear of losing one’s debt
Chapter on mentioning death and preparing for it
In matters that remind him of death and the afterlife, he renounces this world
A chapter on it, and what is said when entering graves and the permissibility of crying there
Chapter: The believer dies by the sweat of his brow
A chapter on the departure of the soul of the believer and the unbeliever
The door to death is an atonement for every Muslim
Chapter on indoctrinating the dead: There is no god but God
Chapter on it and what is said when closing your eyes
Chapter: What was said about a bad ending and what was said that deeds come with endings
Because of what was mentioned in the messengers of the Angel of Death before death
Chapter: The soul of a believing or unbeliever servant will not depart until he is given good news and that he will be taken up with it
A door from it
A chapter on the soul and where it becomes when it leaves the body?
Chapter: How to pay tribute to the dead? And their circumstances differ in this regard
Chapter on what was mentioned regarding the description of the Angel of Death about seizing the soul of the believer and the unbeliever
Chapter on what was mentioned regarding the reason for the Angel of Death seizing the souls of creation
Chapter: What has been stated is that when the soul is captured, the sight follows it
Chapter on hastening the funeral and its speech
Chapter on spreading the garment over the grave during burial
A door that buries the servant in the ground from which he was created
Chapter: What follows the dead person to his grave after his death and what remains with him there
Chapter on what was mentioned in the horror of the beginning
Chapter on what was mentioned regarding choosing the spot for burial
A chapter on choosing good people for the dead to be with them

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