Signs of ar Rahman (The Signs of Allah)

Most of the Bodies of the Shuhadaa
(Martyrs) do not Change or Rot
This fact has reached the degree of Tawaatur i.e. Such a large number of
narrators which precludes the possibility of fabrication.
It is recorded in the Shafee Kitaab, Nihaayatul Muhtaaj:
If a person lent out a land so that a deceased may be buried in that land,
he may only claim the land back once the body has been completely
annihilated. In the case where the deceased is a Nabi or a Shaheed, the
land can never be claimed since the bodies of these two never decay.
The Hanafee Jurist, Ibn Aabideen rahmatullah ‘alayhi writes in his
commentary of Kitaabul-Jihaad: It is Haraam for the earth to consume the
body of a Shaheed.
However, I could not find a hadith in this regard. Nevertheless, the
incident of the body of Hamzah (ra) has just passed which will suffice as a
proof.
The Martyrs of Afghanistan
Umar Hanif, who was my commander in the Zarmah district, has narrated
to me in the house of Nasrullah Mansoor (the leader of The Islamic
Revolutionary Front) that:
1) I have never seen a single Shaheed whose body has changed or gave off
a bad odour.
2) I have never seen dogs touching a single Shaheed even though they
devoured the bodies of the communists.
3) I myself opened 12 graves of the Shuhadaa 3 or 4 years after their
burial, and I did not find one whose odour had changed.
4) I have seen many a Shaheed more than a year after their burial. Their
wounds were fresh, the blood still flowing.
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