O ‘Ali, on the Isra’ when I was taken to the Heavens, I saw women from my Ummah in painful torment

Weak Hadeeth about the prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) seeing the women of the Ummah in painful torment, on the night of Isra’.

It is narrated on the authority of ‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said:

“Fatimah and I entered upon the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and found him crying. I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! May my father and mother be sacrificed for you! What has made you cry?’

He (peace be upon him) said, ‘O ‘Ali! On the Isra’ (Night Journey) when I was taken to the Heavens, I saw women from my Ummah (nation based on one creed) in painful torment and I hated their condition due to what I saw of the severity of their punishment.

I saw a woman hung by her hair and her brain was boiling.

I saw a woman hung by her tongue and scalding water was being poured down her throat.

I saw a woman hung by her breasts.

I saw a woman eating her own flesh and the Fire was burning under her.

I saw a woman who was bound hand and foot and was being assailed by serpents and scorpions.

I saw a blind and deaf woman in a coffin of fire, whose brain was coming out of her thighs and body while being torn by gangrene and leprosy.

I saw a woman hung by her feet in the Fire and another cutting off her flesh from her front and her back with scissors of fire.

I saw a woman whose face and hands were burning while she was eating her own entrails.

I saw a woman with a pig’s head and a donkey’s body being tormented in thousands of forms of punishment.

I saw a woman in the form of a dog with fire entering from her buttocks and coming out of her mouth, and the angels were beating her head and her body with maces of fire.

Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) exclaimed, ‘My beloved and source of delight! Tell me what they had done, so Allah inflicts them with such torments.’

The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, ‘My daughter! The woman hung by hair did not cover it from men.

The one hung by her tongue used to hurt her husband with it.

The one hung by her breasts used to refuse her husband in bed.

The one hung by her feet used to go out of her home without her husband’s consent.

The one eating her own flesh used to dress herself up for people (who had no right to see her. Trans).

The woman bound hand and foot who was assailed by serpents and scorpions did not perform ablution often, wore dirty clothes, did not perform Ghusl (ritual bath) following Janabah (major ritual impurity related to sexual discharge) and menstruation, and was not clean. She made light of Salah (Prayer).

The one who was blind, deaf and dumb, conceived children through Zina (sexual intercourse outside marriage) and made her husband support them.

The one whose flesh was being cut off with the fiery scissors showed herself to incite men to desire her.

The woman, who was burning and ate her own entrails, was a pander.

The one with a pig’s head and donkey’s body was a slanderer and a liar.

The one in the form of a dog with fire going in her buttocks and coming out of her mouth was because she was a singer and public mourner.’

Then, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said,  ‘Woe to the woman that angers her husband and blessed is she who pleases him.’

Regarding this hadeeth, Shaykh ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) said:

هذا خبر مكذوب، ومتنه منكر

This report is falsely ascribed to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and the Matn (text of the Hadith) is Munkar (rejected Hadith reported by a weak narrator whose narration conflicts with an authentic Hadith).

وبعد البحث التام لم نجد إلا أن بعض الناس عزاه إلى كتاب: بحار الأنوار.. وبمراجعه إيضاح المكنون، ذيل كتاب كشف الظنون وجدنا في حرف الباء، أن الكتاب المذكور من مؤلفات بعض الشيعة ، وهو محمد بن باقر بن محمد التقي الشهير بالمجلسي الشيعي المتوفى عام 1111 هـ.

After careful searching, we found that this report is ascribed by some people to the book of Bihar Al-Anwar. Having reviewed Idah Al-Maknun and Dhayl Kitab Kashf Al-Zunun, we found the book in question written by some Shiites, namely, Muhammad ibn Baqir ibn Muhammad Al-Taqy, who died in 1111 A.H.

كذا في الكتاب المذكور، وقد ذكر في البطاقة الموجهة إليّ المتضمنة السؤال عن هذا الحديث، أن صاحب البحار ذكره في الجزء 18ص 351، وقد حدثني من لا أتهم عن بعض من له عناية بكتب الشيعة ، أن هذا الكتاب أعني: بحار الأنوار، مملوء من الأحاديث المكذوبة الموضوعة.. والله ولي التوفيق أ. هـ .

This report is mentioned in Bihar Al-Anwar, part. 18, p. 351. Some reliable scholars who are acquainted with the books of Shiites that this book, namely, Bihar Al-Anwar is replete with fabricated reports. May Allah grant us success.

فتاوى ابن باز , تصفح برقم المجلد,المجلد السادس والعشرون , كتاب الحديث القسم الثاني , كتـاب الأحـاديـث الضـعيفـة , الجزء رقم : 26، الصفحة رقم: 223-225

Source: Fatwas of Ibn Baaz, Volume 26 , Book on Hadith, Second Section , Book on Da`if Hadiths , Part No. 26; Page No. 223-225