This book is a translation of Imām Bayhaqī’s Ĥayātu’l Anbiyā’a fī Qubūrihim, which is a collection of ĥadīth that explicitly say that Prophets are alive in their graves. Imām Bayhaqī is a prominent ĥadīth master, a famous Shāfiýī jurist, an Ashárī imām and the author of many important works. This book was translated in 2008 as a response to a claim by Bilal Philips, an American-Salafi preacher, that Prophets were dead. In a video he was seen mocking the belief that Prophets were alive and he said: “If the Prophet was not dead, then his companions committed a great crime by burying a man alive
