The Stronger Position on the Dead Hearing the Speech of the Living
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What is the stronger position regarding the dead hearing?
The stronger position is what the Sunnah has brought, and this is established without any doubt, as in the hadith: (When a person’s companions depart from him after his burial, he hears the sound of their sandals) and as it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he stood over the slain in the well of Badr, rebuking and admonishing them. When they said: (O Messenger of Allah! How can you speak to these?He said: Are you not better able to hear what I say than they are?) And similarly, as came in the hadith: (No Muslim greets a grave he knew in this life but that Allah returns his spirit to him so that he returns the greeting) Otherwise, the original state is that they do not hear, because their souls have departed from their bodies, but what the Sunnah has brought must be believed in.
The stronger position is what the Sunnah has brought, and this is established without any doubt, as in the hadith: (When a person’s companions depart from him after his burial, he hears the sound of their sandals) and as it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he stood over the slain in the well of Badr, rebuking and admonishing them. When they said: (O Messenger of Allah! How can you speak to these?He said: Are you not better able to hear what I say than they are?) And similarly, as came in the hadith: (No Muslim greets a grave he knew in this life but that Allah returns his spirit to him so that he returns the greeting) Otherwise, the original state is that they do not hear, because their souls have departed from their bodies, but what the Sunnah has brought must be believed in.