What is narrated in saheeh ahaadeeth about the description of Munkar and Nakeer?

What is narrated in saheeh ahaadeeth about the description of Munkar and Nakeer?

What is narrated about the questioning of the two angels Munakr and Nakeer in the grave, and about their appearance? Is the hadeeth about them, in which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) about them, saheeh? Is it true that they drag their hair behind them and their eyes are like lightening and their voices like thunder and they strike the grave with their eyeteeth and say: “Who is your Lord? What is your religion? And who is the Prophet who was sent amongst you?”.

 

Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly: 

It is narrated in saheeh reports that the two angels whose
task it is to question the deceased are black and blue, and one is called
al-Munkar and the other is called al-Nakeer. 

Al-Tirmidhi (1071) narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be
pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: “When the deceased – or one of you – is buried,
there come to him two black and blue angels, one of whom is called al-Munkar
and the other al-Nakeer. They say: ‘What did you say about this man?’ and he
says what he used to say: ‘He is the slave of Allaah and His Messenger. I
bear witness that there is no god but Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave
and Messenger.’ They say: ‘We knew that you would say that.’ Then his grave
is made spacious for him, seventy cubits by seventy, and it is illuminated
for him. Then it is said to him: ‘Sleep,’ and he says: ‘May I go back to my
family and tell them?’ They say: ‘Sleep like the bridegroom who will be
woken by none but the dearest of his family to him,’ until Allaah raises him
from that resting-place of his.” 

But if he is a hypocrite he says: ‘I heard the people saying
something so I said something like what they said. I do not know.’ They say:
‘We knew that you would say that.’ Then it is said to the earth: ‘Squeeze
him.’ So it squeezes him until his ribs interlock, and he will continue to
be tormented therein until Allaah raises him from that resting-place of
his.” 

This hadeeth was classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh
al-Tirmidhi. 

With regard to the hadeeth of ‘Umar to which you refer, it
was narrated via da’eef (weak) isnaads, such as the mursal report narrated
by ‘Abd al-Razzaaq in his Musannaaf (6738) from ‘Amr ibn Dinar,
according to which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) said to ‘Umar: “How will you deal, O ‘Umar, with the two testers in the
grave, when they come to you digging the earth with their eyeteeth, stepping
on their hair (because it is so long), their eyes like dazzling lightning
and their voices like deafening thunder, with a whip so heavy that if the
whole world were to gather together to lift it, they would not be able?”
‘Umar said: I will be as I am today. He said: As you are today? He said:
Then I shall take care of them for you, in sha Allaah.” 

Al-‘Iraaqi said in Takhreej al-Ihya’ (4/223): This was
narrated like this, as a mursal report, by Ibn Abi’l-Dunya in Kitaab
al-Quboor, and its men are thiqaat (trustworthy). Al-Bayhaqi said in
al-I’tiqaad: We have narrated it via a saheeh isnaad in a mursal report
from ‘Ata’ ibn Yasaar. 

I say: Ibn Battah narrated it in a mawsool report in
al-Ibaanah, from the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas, and it was narrated by
al-Bayhaqi in al-I’tiqaad from the hadeeth of ‘Umar, but he said it
is ghareeb with this isnaad, which was narrated only by Mufaddal. Ahmad and
Ibn Hibbaan also narrated from the hadeeth of ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar that
‘Umar said: “Will our awareness be restored to us?” He said: “Yes, just as
you are today.” ‘Umar said: “Then I will throw a stone in his mouth.” end
quote. 

Professor Fareej ibn Saalih al-Bahlaal said in his commentary
on al-I’tiqaad by al-Bayhaqi (p. 254), after referring to the da’eef
isnaad: Perhaps by virtue of these isnaads and corroborating reports its
isnaad may be hasan. End quote. 

Secondly: 

The questions which the angels put to the deceased in his
grave are: Who is your Lord? What is your religion? Who is this man who was
sent among you?

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