Story of PROPHET: IDRIS (عليه السلام) PART 2

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PROPHET: IDRIS (عليه السلام)

PART: 2

SOUL SEIZED IN FOURTH HEAVEN!

Ibn Abbas asked Ka’b: “What is meant when Allah said: ‘We raised him to a high station’”. Ka’b replied: “Allah revealed to Idris: ‘ I would raise for you every day the same amount of the deeds of all Adam’s children’- perhaps meaning of his time only. So Idris wanted to increase his deeds and devotion. A friend of his from the angels visited him and Idris said to him: ‘Allah has revealed to me such and such, so could you please speak to the angel of death, so I could increase my deeds.’ The angel carried him on his wings and went up into the heaven. When it was the fourth heaven, they met the angel of death, who was descending down to earth. 

The angel spoke to him, about what Idris has spoken to him before. The angel of death said: ‘But where is Idris?’ 

He replied: ‘He is upon my back.’ The angel of death said: "How astonishing! I was sent and told to seize his soul in the fourth heaven. I kept thinking how I could seize it in the fourth heaven when he was on the earth?"

Then he took his soul there out of his body, and that is what is meant in this Verse: ‘And We raised him to a high station’.

OTHER OPINION:

Imam Bukhari Says: 

It is narrated from Ibn Mas’ud and Ibn Abbas that Elias (Iliyas) was Idris. They apparently take evidence from the Hadith of Night Journey that: “When the Prophet ﷺ passed by him, 

He said: ‘Welcome to the pious brother and pious Prophet.’ And he did not say as Adam and Abraham said: ‘Welcome to the pious Prophet and pious son.’”. They say: “If he were in his lineage, he should have said as the two of them said.”

This evidence does not stand strong, because it could be that the narrator did not remember it properly. Or he may have said that to show his humility and affection.

اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَم

To be Continued…

ان شاء الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ

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