The Throne Moved Due to the Death of Saad Bin Maad

Abu Muhammad said: We say that some people have interpreted this hadith and they have said that the shaking of the throne is only movement as a spear shakes and as a tree shakes when the wind moves it. If the interpretation is like this, then the hideousness has occurred and the argument that these people have used as evidence is obligatory. Some people said that the throne here is the bed on which Sad ibn Muadh was carried. It moved. If the interpretation is like this, then Sad has no merit in this statement and there is no benefit in the speech because every bed of the dead must move due to people pulling it towards them. And how can the throne be the bed on which Sad ibn Muadh was carried when it was narrated in another hadith that the throne of the Most Merciful shook because of his death? The shaking is not what they have said about the movement, nor is the throne what others have said. Rather, the shaking is good news and joy. It is said that so-and-so shakes for a favor, meaning he is happy and pleased, and so-and-so is shaken by praise, meaning comfort and ease. From this it is said in the proverb that so-and-so shakes when invited and when asked, he shakes. The speech is from Abu al-Aswad al-Duali. He sees that if he is invited to a meal, he eats. Shaking means being at ease and pleased, and if he is asked for a need, he shakes, meaning he remains in his state and does not let go. This is the meaning of shaking in this hadith.

As for the throne, it is the throne of the Most Gracious, the Almighty, according to what came in the hadith. Rather, by shaking, he meant the glad tidings of the angels who carry it and surround it with the spirit of Sad ibn Muadh. So he made the throne stand in the place of those who carry it and surround it from the angels, as God Almighty said: ” The heavens and the earth did not weep for them,” meaning the people of the heavens and the people of the earth did not weep for them. So he made the heavens and the earth stand in the place of their people. And as he said: “Ask the town,” meaning ask its people. And as the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said about Uhud: “This is a mountain that loves us and we love it,” meaning its people love us, meaning the Ansar, and we love it, meaning we love its people. Likewise, he made the throne stand in the place of its bearers and those surrounding it . It came in the hadith that the angels are gladdened by the spirit of the believer and that every believer has a door in the heaven through which his deeds ascend and his provision descends, and through which his spirit ascends when he dies, then returns. This interpretation is also indicated by the saying of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: “Seventy thousand angels hastened to wash him.” And this interpretation, praise be to God Almighty, is easy and close, as if he said:

The bearers of the Throne and the angels around him were delighted with the spirit of Saad. As for their saying, “How can He punish someone who seventy thousand angels rushed to wash?” Death, resurrection, and the Day of Judgment have severe earthquakes and terrors from which no prophet or saint is safe. This indicates that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, sought refuge with God from the torment of the grave. Even if it were impossible, he would not have sought refuge from it, but he feared what God Almighty had decreed for all of His servants and concealed from them, so He did not leave any of them in safety or tranquility. This indicates the saying of the prophets, may God bless them on the Day of Judgment, “O Lord, my soul, my soul,” and the saying of our Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, “O Lord, my nation, my nation,” and this indicates the saying of God Almighty, “There is not one of you but will pass over it. This was an inevitability decreed upon your Lord.” He informed us that there is not one but will pass over the Fire. Then God will save those who feared Him and leave the wrongdoers therein on their knees. And Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, said, “If I had the height of the earth in gold, I would ransom myself with it from the terror of the rising.” Ibn Abbas said regarding the saying of God Almighty, “On the Day when God will gather the messengers and say, ‘What did you answer?’ They will say, ‘We have no knowledge.’” You are the Knower of the unseen. You will make them astonished at the horrors of the Day of Resurrection.