The word · Belief
مُنْكَرٌ وَنَكِير
Munkar and Nakir
The two angels who question a person in the grave about their Lord, their religion, and their prophet.
Also written · Munkar · Nakir · Nakeer · Munkar wa Nakeer · Munkar Nakir · Angels of the grave · Questioning angels · Two angels in the grave · Munkar wa Nakir · Munkar Nakeer
The meaning
What Munkar and Nakir means in Islam
They are named in a hadith reported by al-Tirmidhi, and the three questions appear in several sound narrations. The believer answers with certainty and the grave is widened for him; the one who lived heedless can only say that he heard people saying something and repeated it. This is the trial of the grave that the Prophet peace be upon him taught his companions to seek refuge from in every prayer.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
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Words that sit beside it
- Adhab al-QabrThe punishment or ease a person meets in the grave, before the Day of Judgement arrives.عَذَابُ القَبْر
- BarzakhThe state between death and the resurrection, where the soul waits after the body is buried.البَرْزَخ
- MalaikahAngels: beings created from light who never disobey Allah and carry out exactly what they are commanded.المَلَائِكَة
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
- QalamThe Pen, commanded to write the decree of everything that would happen until the Day of Judgement.القَلَم
- SiratThe bridge laid over Hell that everyone must cross, at speeds matching their deeds.الصِّرَاط