al-Istidad lil-Mawt wa Sual al-Qabr
- Author died
- 987 AH
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- Dār Ibn Khaldūn
al-Isti'dad lil-Mawt wa Sual al-Qabr (Preparation for Death and the Questioning of the Grave) is an Islamic eschatological and hortatory treatise attributed to the Indian Shafi'i scholar Zayn al-Din al-Ma'bari.
Authorship and Background
The work is attributed in bibliographical sources to Zayn al-Din ibn Ali al-Ma'bari. The al-Ma'bari al-Malibari family produced prominent Shafi'i scholars in Malabar, notably Zayn al-Din ibn Ali al-Ma'bari (d. 928 AH / 1522 CE) and his grandson Zayn al-Din ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Ma'bari (d. 987 AH / 1579 CE).
Content and Publication
The treatise focuses on spiritual preparedness for mortality, the stages of dying, the events surrounding departure from worldly life, and the subsequent questioning by the two angels in the grave (sual al-qabr). The work has been printed in Cairo by Maktabat al-Turath al-Islami.
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