Question:
Please can you clarify what hadith is this and who wrote it:
“After judgement day there will be a day of assembly when people of heaven and hell will be brought together. A ram will be sacrificed and they the people will return to the same places they came from.”
What is the hadith and why is there a sacrifice of a Ram after Judgement Day?
Answer:
This is a hadith of the Prophet (upon him blesings and peace) narrated by Imam al-Bukhari in his Sahih thus:
On the Day of Resurrection, Death will be brought forward in the shape of a black-and-white ram. Then a caller will call, “O people of Paradise!” Thereupon they will stretch their necks and look carefully. The caller will say, “Do you know this?” They will say, “Yes, this is
Death.” All of them will see it. Then it will be announced again, “O people of Hell!” They will stretch their necks and look carefully. The caller will say, “Do you know this?” They will say, “Yes, this is Death.” All of them will see it. Then it will be slaughtered and the
caller will say, “O people of Paradise! Eternity for you and no death; O people of Hell! Eternity for you and no death.” Then the Prophet (upon him blesings and peace) recited:
وَأَنذِرۡهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡحَسۡرَةِ إِذۡ قُضِىَ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ وَهُمۡ فِى غَفۡلَةٍ۬ وَهُمۡ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ
{And warn them of the Day of Distress when the case has been decided, while now they are in a state of carelessness and they do not believe} Surat Maryam 19:39 (Sahih al-Bukhari).
Hajj Gibril Haddad
