Caution: Translations of Quran and Ḥadīth may lead to possible misapplications and misinterpretations. This site is intended for students of sacred knowledge that are proficient in comprehending classical Arabic and have a strong foundation in Islamic sciences. Also note that religious injunctions rely on several aspects beyond what one may glean through reading individual aḥādīth.
Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc
quran:47:27 –

Then how ˹will it be˺ when the angels take them in death, striking their faces and their backs?  

Then how will it be, their predicament, when the angels take them away, beating (yadribūna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the angels) their faces and their backs?, with hooked iron rods.
القرآن:٤٧:٢٧ –

فَكَيْفَ إِذَا تَوَفَّتْهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ يَضْرِبُونَ وُجُوهَهُمْ وَأَدْبَارَهُمْ  

{فكيف} حالهم {إذا توفتهم الملائكة يضربون} حال من الملائكة {وجوههم وأدبارهم} ظهورهم بمقامع من حديد.

Add your own reflection below:

Sign in with Google to add or reply to reflections.

See similar narrations below:

Collected by Qurʾān
quran:8:50 –

And if you could but see when the angels take the souls of those who disbelieved... They are striking their faces and their backs and ˹saying˺, "Taste the punishment of the Burning Fire.  

And if you could only see, O Muhammad (s), when the angels take (read either as yatawaffā or tatawaffā) the disbelievers, beating (yadribūna is a circumstantial qualifier) their faces and their backs, with hooked iron rods, and, they say to them: ‘Taste the chastisement of burning, that is, the Fire (the response to the ˹clause beginning with˺ law, ‘if’, would be la-ra’ayta amran ‘azīman, ‘you would truly have seen an terrible sight’).
القرآن:٨:٥٠ –

وَلَوْ تَرَىٰ إِذْ يَتَوَفَّى الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۙ الْمَلَائِكَةُ يَضْرِبُونَ وُجُوهَهُمْ وَأَدْبَارَهُمْ وَذُوقُوا عَذَابَ الْحَرِيقِ  

{ولو تَرى} يا محمد {إذ يتوفى} بالياء والتاء {الذين كفروا الملائكة يضربون} حال {وجوههم وأدبارهم} بمقامعَ من حديد {و} يقولون لهم {ذوقوا عذاب الحريق} أي النار وجواب لو: لرأيت أمرا عظيما.