The gathering of mankind will be in al-Shaam not in ‘Arafaah
Question Will people be gethered on the day of Judgement in Arafat? Praise be to Allah. There is no saheeh evidence to indicate that. Shaykh Sa’d al-Humayd Rather it is proven in the saheeh hadeeth that the gathering will be in al-Shaam (Greater Syria, including Palestine). It was narrated from Abu Dharr (may Allaah be…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
There is no saheeh evidence to indicate that.
Shaykh Sa’d al-Humayd
Rather it is proven in the saheeh hadeeth that the gathering
will be in al-Shaam (Greater Syria, including Palestine). It was narrated
from Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Al-Shaam is the land
of the gathering and the resurrection.” (Narrated by Ahmad).
Al-Manaawi said in Fath
al-Qadeer: “i.e., it is the place where the people will be
gathered for the Reckoning. They will be resurrected from their graves
then they will be driven to that land. It has been singled out for this
because it is the land of which Allaah said (interpretation of the meaning):
‘the land which We have blessed for
the ‘Aalameen (mankind and jinn)’ [al-Anbiya’ 21:71].
Most of the Prophets were sent from that land and their laws spread
throughout the world, so it is appropriate that it should be the land
of the gathering and the resurrection.” (Fayd
al-Qadeer by al-Manaawi, vol. 4, p. 171).
But the gathering of the people on Hajj at ‘Arafaah reminds the Muslim
of the gathering of all of mankind for the Reckoning and requital (reward
or punishment). And Allaah knows best.
