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Abu Huraira said, "Allah's Apostle said, 'Between the two sounds of the trumpet, there will be forty." Somebody asked Abu
Huraira, "Forty days?" But he refused to reply. Then he asked, "Forty months?" He refused to reply. Then he asked, "Forty
years?" Again, he refused to reply. Abu Huraira added, "Then (after this period) Allah will send water from the sky and then
the dead bodies will grow like vegetation grows. There is nothing of the human body that does not decay except one bone;
that is the little bone at the end of the coccyx of which the human body will be recreated on the Day of Resurrection." (See
Hadith No. 338)
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Early Years
Angel Gabriel
When forty years old, during one of the retreats which he made habitually in a cave on top of a mountain outside Makkah,
Muhammad first saw the archangel Gabriel who revealed God's Word to him, the Quran, and announced that Muhammad is
the messenger of God.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 4.748 Narrated by
Anas
Allah's Apostle was neither very tall nor short, neither absolutely white nor deep brown. His hair was neither curly nor lank.
Allah sent him (as an Apostle) when he was forty years old. Afterwards he resided in Mecca for ten years and in Medina for
ten more years. When Allah took him unto Him, there was scarcely twenty white hairs in his head and beard.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 3.41
Zakah on Cattle
When they reach forty, the zakah is a young cow two years old (musinnah);
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 5.132c
Traveling to Three Mosques
… "For three mosques a special journey may be undertaken: The Sacred Mosque (Ka'bah), my mosque, and the mosque of
Al-Quds (Jerusalem)."
Abu Dharr reported that he asked the Prophet (peace be upon him), "O Prophet of Allah, which mosque was built first on
earth?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, "The Sacred Mosque of Makkah." Abu Dharr again asked, "Which was
next?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "The Al-Aqsa Mosque." "How long was the period between them?" Abu Dharr
asked. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Forty years.
Sahih Muslim Hadith
Hadith 7075
Utbah ibn Ghazwa
Narrated by
… It has been mentioned that there stretch a distance, which one can cover in forty years, from one end of Paradise to the
other, and a day will come when it is fully packed.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 5681
AbuSa'id al-Khudr
Narrated by
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "The awnings of Hell have four thick walls, each wall a distance of forty years."
Tirmidhi transmitted it.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 5258 Narrated by
Abdullah ibn Amr
… "Let the poor ones among the Emigrants rejoice over what makes their faces glad, for they will enter Paradise forty years
before the rich."
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 3739
Narrated by
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "No judge who pronounces judgment among men will fail to come on the Day of
Resurrection with an angel holding the scruff of his neck. He will then raise his head to Heaven, and if Allah gives orders to
cast him down, he will cast him into an abyss forty years deep."
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