Al-Sharḥ al-MumtiʿIbn al-'Uthaymin

the angels say “Amin” to what you say.” (1) For it was a custom of the Age of Ignorance that, when calamities befell them, people would invoke evil upon themselves, saying, “O my destruction! My back is broken!” and similar expressions familiar to them. So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said to the household of Abu Salamah: “Do not supplicate against yourselves except for good, for the angels say ‘Amin’ to what you say.” A supplication to which the angels say “Amin” is surely deserving of acceptance—especially in such a state, when a person is afflicted, humbled, submissive, and in need of his Lord, knowing that none can save him from this affliction but Allah. It is therefore especially worthy of acceptance, and for this reason the angels have been made to say “Amin” to his supplication.

Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “O Allah, forgive Abu Salamah, raise his rank among the rightly guided, make his grave spacious for him, illuminate it for him, and succeed him among those he has left behind.” These are tremendous supplications, better than this world and all that is in it. He supplicated for him with these five prayers. As for the last of them, we know that it was fulfilled: Allah succeeded him among those he left behind when He decreed that His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, should marry Umm Salamah, and that Abu Salamah’s children should become stepchildren of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. As for what we do not know—his forgiveness, the raising of his rank among the rightly guided, the spaciousness of his grave, and its illumination—we hope that it was so.

As for the rational proof, it is to prevent the deceased from appearing disfigured. If the gaze is fixed, this disfigures his appearance, so whoever looks at him will find him disfigured. Closing his eyes removes this disfigurement.

The scholars also said that it prevents vermin from reaching the pupil of the eye. But this reasoning is far-fetched, because the deceased will not remain long enough for them to prevail

(1) Reported by Muslim, no. 920, on the authority of Umm Salamah.
الملائكة يؤمِّنون على ما تقولون» (١)؛ لأنه من عادة الجاهلية أنه عند المصائب يدعون على أنفسهم بالشر، فيقولون: واثبوراه، وانقطاع ظهراه، وما أشبه ذلك من الكلمات المعروفة عندهم، فقال النبي ﷺ لأهل أبي سلمة: «لا تدعوا على أنفسكم إلا بخير، فإن الملائكة يؤمِّنون على ما تقولون»، وإِنَّ دعاءً تؤمِّن عليه الملائكة لحريٌّ بالإِجابة، ولا سيما في هذه الحال التي يكون فيها الإِنسان مصاباً خاضعاً خاشعاً مفتقراً إلى ربه، عارفاً أنه لا ينجيه من هذه المصيبة إلا الله، فيكون حرياً بالإِجابة، ولهذا سُخِّرت الملائكة لتؤمِّن على دعائه، ثم قال النبي ﷺ: «اللهم اغفر لأبي سلمة وارفع درجته في المهديين، وافسح له في قبره، ونوّر له فيه، واخلفه في عقبه في الغابرين»، دعوات عظيمة خير من الدنيا وما فيها، دعا له بهذه الدعوات الخمس، والأخيرة منها علمت، فإن الله تعالى خلفه في عقبه حيث سخر نبيّه ﷺ أن يتزوج أم سلمة، ويكون أبناء أبي سلمة ربائب لرسول الله ﷺ. وما لم نعلمه من المغفرة، ورفع درجته في المهديين، والفسح له في قبره، وتنويره، فإننا نرجو أن يكون كذلك. وأما النظري: فهو: لدفع تشويه الميت؛ لأنه إذا كان البصر شاخصاً ففيه تشويه، فالذي ينظر إليه يجده مشوهاً، ففي تغميضه إزالة لهذا التشويه. قال العلماء: وفيه أيضاً حجب الهوام أن تصل إلى حدقة العين، ولكن هذا تعليل بعيد؛ لأن الميت لن يبقى حتى تتسلط
(١) أخرجه مسلم (٩٢٠) عن أم سلمة ﵂.

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