Hadith: Ten Disgraced Groups on the Day of Judgement

Mu’adh ibn Jabal, may Allah be pleased with him, said: I once asked, ‘Oh Messenger of Allah! What of the saying of Allah, the High and Majestic, On the day when the Horn is to be blown, and you shall come in hosts.

And the Prophet, peace and blessings upon him, said, ‘Oh Mu’adh ibn Jabal, you ask about a formidable thing!’ Then he wept abundantly and said:

‘Ten different kinds [of people] of my nation will be gathered in groups distinct from the groups of the Muslims. Their forms will have been changed: some will have the forms of monkeys, others the forms of pigs, others will be upside down, their legs upwards, being dragged on their faces. Some will be blind, hesitant. Others will be deaf and dumb, lacking in reason; others still will be chewing their tongues which will hang on their chests, and their saliva will be pus, so that they disgust the other people of the gathering. Some will have their hands and feet cut off, some will be crucified on tree-trunks of fire, some will be fouler than putrid cadavers, and some will wear flowing robes of tar.

As for those whose forms resemble monkeys, they are the slanderers.
Those who have the forms of pigs are the people of ill-gotten, illicit, and unlawfully taxed money.
Those whose heads and faces are beneath them are those who consumed usury. The blind are those who ruled tyrannously.
The deaf and dumb are those who were proud of their actions.
Those who chew their tongues are the scholars and judges whose conduct different from their words.
Those whose hands and feet are cut off are those who injured their neighbors.
The people crucified on trunks of fire are those who frequently denounced people to the authorities.
Those fouler than putrid cadavers are those who enjoyed passions and pleasures but withheld Allah’s due in their wealth.
And those who wear the robes [of tar] are the arrogant, the boastful, and the conceited.'”

Related by al-Qurtubi, may Allah have mercy on him, in his Memorial.

Taken from Mostafa al-Badawi’s translation of Imam Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad’s The Lives of Man: A Guide to the Human States: Before Life, in the World, and After Death

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