The man who asked his sons to burn him, Forgiven for his fear
In the hadithForgiven for his fear
The man who asked his sons to burn himالرجل الذي أوصى بنيه بإحراقه
A man so afraid of meeting Allah that he asked to be burned and scattered.
A man who had done little good told his sons: when I die, burn me and scatter my ashes on the wind and sea. They did. Allah gathered him whole and asked why he had done it. He said, "Out of fear of You, my Lord." And Allah forgave him.
What does the hadith say?
The lesson
Sincere fear of Allah is itself a door to His mercy.
Source: hadith
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani