The word · Belief
عَذَابُ القَبْر
Adhab al-Qabr
The punishment or ease a person meets in the grave, before the Day of Judgement arrives.
Also written · Azab al-Qabr · Adhab ul Qabr · Azab e Qabr · Qabr azab · Punishment of the grave · Torment of the grave · Fitnat al-Qabr · Grave punishment · Trial of the grave
The meaning
What Adhab al-Qabr means in Islam
The Qur'an describes the people of Fir'awn exposed to the Fire morning and evening before the Hour comes (Qur'an 40:46), and many sound hadiths describe the grave as either a garden of Paradise or a pit of the Fire. Ahl al-Sunnah affirm it as real without claiming to know how it works upon a body that has decayed or was never buried. The Mu'tazila denied it; the Sunni schools do not.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- BarzakhThe state between death and the resurrection, where the soul waits after the body is buried.البَرْزَخ
- Munkar and NakirThe two angels who question a person in the grave about their Lord, their religion, and their prophet.مُنْكَرٌ وَنَكِير
- QiyamahThe Day of Resurrection, when this creation ends, the dead are raised, and everyone is judged.القِيَامَة
More from Belief
- Ahl al-FatrahPeople who lived without a prophet's message reaching them, and the question of how they are judged.أَهْلُ الفَتْرَة
- Ba'thThe resurrection: bodies raised and souls returned, so that everyone stands for judgement.البَعْث
- IstidrajBeing drawn in slowly by blessings while sinning, so that ease becomes a punishment rather than approval.الاِسْتِدْرَاج
- Lawh MahfuzThe Preserved Tablet, in which everything decreed was written down before it happened.اللَّوْحُ المَحْفُوظ
- QadrAllah's decree: that He knows, wrote, willed and created all that happens, without forcing anyone to sin.القَدَر
- SiratThe bridge laid over Hell that everyone must cross, at speeds matching their deeds.الصِّرَاط