Throughout history, cultures and religious traditions have asked: what happens to a person after death? Answers have ranged from reincarnation to nothingness. Yet, Allah’s Revelation has answered this question clearly.

Two of the most detailed accounts were related by the noble companions Al-Bara’ b. Azib and Anas b. Malik. In them, the Prophet ﷺ describes what happens when a person leaves this world and enters the next: the Angel of Death taking the soul, angels ascending with it to the heavens, the questioning by Munkar and Nakir, the punishment or pleasure of the grave, and more.

These narrations deal with matters of the unseen, and clarify the reward for good deeds and the recompense for evil ones. The book contains the explanations of scholars, including Al-Nawawi, Ibn Hajr, Al-Albani, Ibn Baz, Al-Uthaymin, Al-Najmi, Al-Abbad, and others.