A very important Hadith...Abu Hurairah RA said: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, Between the two Blowing of the Trumpet there will be an interval of forty. The people said, O Abu Hurairah! Do you mean forty days? He said, I cannot say anything. They said, Do you mean forty years? He said, I cannot say anything. They said, Do you mean forty months? He said, I cannot say anything. The Prophet added: Everything of the human body will perish except the last coccyx bone (end part of the spinal cord), and from that bone Allah will reconstruct the whole body. Then Allah will send down water from the sky and people will grow like green vegetables. [Bukhari and Muslim]. Commentary: 1. When Israfil blows the Trumpet the first time, by Allahs Leave, all those who are in the heavens and on earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah will. This will be the first Blowing. Then, it will be blown a second time, they will become alive and will emerge from their graves. These Blowings are known as the Blowings of Fainting and Rising. As regard the interval between these two Blowings, the narrator of the narration, Abu Hurairah could not say anything when he was asked about it; as he himself did not know it. But in other narrations the interval has been mentioned as forty years.
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