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Are there any saheeh ahaadeeth which speak of the ransoming of the living and the dead during Ramadaan?

Question: 50699

I heard from someone that Allaah ransoms just one of the dead Muslims every night, and that He does not ransom any of the living except on the last night of Ramadaan, when He ransoms the same number as the number of dead whom He ransomed during the month. Is this true?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

After researching the matter, we did not find any ahaadeeth
which say such a thing. 

There are ahaadeeth which say that Allaah ransoms people from
the Fire during Ramadaan, and that happens every night. 

Some of these ahaadeeth are saheeh (sound), some are da’eef
(weak),  and some are mawdoo’ (fabricated). 

Among the saheeh ahaadeeth which speak of that are the
following: 

1 – It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased
with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: “When the first night of Ramadaan comes, the devils and
mischievous jinn are chained up, and the gates of Hell are closed, and none
of its gates are opened. The gates of Paradise are opened and none of its
gates are closed. And a caller cries out: ‘O seeker of good, proceed; O
seeker of evil, desist.’ And Allaah has people whom He frees (from the
Fire), and that happens every day.” 

Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 682; Ibn Maajah, 1642; classed as
hasan by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 759. 

2 – It was narrated that Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with
him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said: “At every breaking of the fast Allaah has people whom He
redeems from the Fire, and that happens every night.”

Narrated by Ahmad, 21698; Ibn Maajah, 1643; classed as saheeh
by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah. 

The da’eef (weak) and
mawdoo’ (fabricated) ahaadeeth that have been narrated on this topic include
the following: 

1 – The report narrated
from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him), according to which the
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“When the first night of Ramadaan comes, Allaah looks at His creation, and
if Allaah looks at a person He will never punish him. And every day Allaah
has one thousand thousand whom He ransoms from the Fire. On the twenty-ninth
night Allaah ransoms a number equivalent to the number whom He has already
ransomed during the entire month.” 

This is a mawdoo’ hadeeth. See Da’eef al-Targheeb, 591
and al-Silsilah al-Da’eefah, 5468. 

2 – It was narrated from
Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he heard the Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Paradise is
scented with incense and adorned throughout the year, in preparation for the
beginning of the month of Ramadaan. On the first night of the month of
Ramadaan, a wind called al-matheerah comes from beneath the Throne… And on
each day of the month of Ramadaan at the time of breaking the fast, Allaah
has one thousand thousand whom He ransoms from the Fire, all of whom
deserved to go to Hell. And on the last day of the month of Ramadaan, Allaah
ransoms on that day a number equivalent to all those whom He ransomed from
the beginning of the month to the end. 

This is a mawdoo’ hadeeth. See Da’eef al-Targheeb,
594. 

3 – It was narrated that
al-Hasan said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: “Every night of Ramadaan Allaah has six hundred thousand
whom He ransoms from the Fire. And on the last night Allaah ransoms a number
equivalent to those whom He has already ransomed.”  

This is a da’eef hadeeth. See Da’eef al-Targheeb, 598.

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