“I possess nothing for you; I have already conveyed.”

[Another wording reads: “I must not find one of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with fluttering strips of cloth draped over his neck, saying, ‘O Messenger of Allah, help me!’ while I will answer, ‘I possess nothing for you; I have already conveyed.’]

Likewise, “I must not find one of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with ‘silent property’⦗1⦘ hanging from his neck, saying, ‘O Messenger of Allah, help me!’ and I will reply, ‘I possess nothing for you; I have already conveyed.’”

Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim included this report, transmitted through Abū Ḥayyān—whose name is Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥayyān al-Taymī⦗2⦘.

We cited earlier the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: “No owner of camels who fails to pay their zakāt will escape being thrown flat for them on a smooth, level plain on the Day of Resurrection; they will trample him with their hooves, and when the last of them has passed over him the first will be sent back to him…,” and he mentioned the remainder of the narration concerning cattle and sheep⦗3⦘.

These ḥadīths, together with the Qur’ānic verses, prove that all animals will indeed be resurrected.

It was also related in the ḥadīth of the Trumpet: “Then Allah, exalted is He, will judge between His creation—except the two weighty species, humankind and jinn. He will judge between the domesticated animals and the wild beasts, even to the point that He will grant retaliation to the hornless one against the one that had horns. When Allah has finished with them and none of them owes another anything, He will say to them, ‘Be dust!’ At that moment the disbeliever will say, ‘Oh, would that I were dust!’ (Q 78:40).”

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā said: Hārūn ibn ʿAbd-Allāh related to us; Sayyār related to us; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān related to us: I heard Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī say, “I was told that when the animals see the descendants of Adam on the Day of Resurrection scattering before Allah—exalted is He—some toward Paradise and some toward the Fire, the animals will call out, ‘Praise be to Allah, O children of Adam, who has not made us like you today; we neither hope for Paradise nor fear punishment.’”⦗4⦘

Al-Qurṭubī quoted Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī in his Commentary on the Beautiful Names of Allah, under the Name al-Muqsit al-Jāmiʿ (The All-Just, The Gatherer). He said: “According to one report, the wild and domesticated animals will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment and will prostrate to Allah. The angels will say, ‘This is not a day for prostration; this is the day of recompense and requital.’ The animals will reply, ‘This is a prostration of gratitude to Allah for not making us among the children of Adam.’ It is also said that the angels will tell the animals, ‘Allah has not resurrected you for reward or punishment; rather, He has resurrected you so that you may witness the disgrace of the children of Adam.’”

Al-Qurṭubī further related that once the animals have been judged and gathered, they will return to dust, and Allah will cast that dust into the faces of the wicked among the children of Adam. He said: “That is His statement, ‘Faces on that Day will be covered with dust’ (Q 80:40).”

Allah, exalted is He, knows best; and what he has mentioned warrants further examination.