Editing Azrael (section)

=== Relationship between Azrael and Death ===
Islam elaborated further narratives concerning the relation between Azrael and Death. Christian Lange mentioned that according to some scholars Azrael and Death were one entity; other exegesis scholars opined Azrael and Death were different entities, with Death as some kind of tool used by Azrael to take life.<ref name="Lange-2016">{{cite book |last= Lange|first= Christian |date= 2016|title= Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions|url= |location= Cambridge United Kingdom|publisher= Cambridge University Press|page= |isbn=978-0-521-50637-3}}</ref>{{rp|p=129}}

One account explains death and its relation to Azrael, representing ''Death'' and Azrael as former two separate entities, but when God created Death, God ordered the angels to look upon it and they swoon for a thousand years. After the angels regained consciousness, Death recognized that it must submit to Azrael.<ref>Jane I. Smith, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad ''Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection'' State University of New York Press 1981 {{ISBN|9780873955072}} p. 34-35</ref> This opinion were shared among scholars of Islam such as Sultan ibn ‘Abdirrahman Al-‘Umairi, in his book ''Al-‘Uquud Adz-Dzahabiyyah ‘alaa Maqaasid Al-‘Aqiidah Al-Waasithiyyah'' where he adds commentary the Hadith about Death will be materialized after the judgment day in form of a Ram, which said as different entity than Angel Azrael.<ref name="إمداد القارى بشرح كتاب التفسير من صحيح البخارى 1-4 - 3">{{cite book |author1=Sulthon bin ‘Abdirrahman Al-‘Umairi |title=إمداد القارى بشرح كتاب التفسير من صحيح البخارى 1-4 - 3 |publisher=IslamKotob |page=506 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5tkvCwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 August 2023 |language=Ar |format=Paperback}}</ref> According to one narration, Azrael is rewarded to become the angel of death for successfully carrying the dirt of the earth from which Adam would be created.<ref name="10.1163_1573-3912_islam_SIM_3719">Wensinck, A.J., “ʿIzrāʾīl”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 17 August 2023 {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3719}}
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The identification of "Death" and angel Azrael as one entity were explained in a Hadith about the fate of "Death" entity itself after the judgment day, where classical Hanafite scholar [[Badr al-Din al-Ayni]] has interpreted in that Hadith which compiled in [[Sahih Bukhari]] collection, that Death would take on the form of a ram, then placed between paradise and hell, and finally slaughtered by God himself, causing Death cease to exist, which followed by God to declare to both people of paradise and hell that eternity has begun, and their state will never end.<ref name="Umdat al-Qari interpretation of Sahih al-Bukhari">{{cite web |author1=Badr al-Din al-Ayni |page=53 |title=Umdat al qari; Interpretation of Sahih Bukhari |url=https://islamweb.net/ar/library/index.php?page=bookcontents&idfrom=1&idto=31596&bk_no=303&ID=1 |website=Islamweb.net |publisher=al-Maktaba al-Islam (Islamic library) |access-date=18 March 2022 |language=ar |quote=حدثنا عمر بن حفص بن غياث ، حدثنا أبي ، حد; فيقولون : نعم هذا الموت ، وكلهم قد رآه ، ثم ينادي : يا أهل النار ، فيشرئبون وينظرون ، فيقول : هل تعرفون هذا ؟ فيقولون : نعم هذا الموت ، وكلهم قد رآه فيذبح ثم يقول : يا أهل الجنة ، خلود فلا موت ، ويا أهل النار خلود فلا موت ، ثم قرأ; Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "On the Day of Resurrection Death will be brought forward in the shape of a black and white ram. Then a call maker will call, 'O people of Paradise!' Thereupon they will stretch their necks and look carefully. The caller will say, 'Do you know this?' They will say, 'Yes, this is Death.' By then all of them will have seen it. Then it will be announced again, 'O people of Hell !' They will stretch their necks and look carefully. The caller will say, 'Do you know this?' They will say, 'Yes, this is Death.' And by then all of them will have seen it. Then it (that ram) will be slaughtered and the caller will say, 'O people of Paradise! Eternity for you and no death O people of Hell! Eternity for you and no death."'  ثنا الأعمش ، حدثنا أبو صالح ، عن أبي سعيد الخدري رضي الله عنه قال : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : يؤتى بالموت كهيئة كبش أملح فينادي مناد : يا أهل الجنة ، فيشرئبون ، وينظرون ، فيقول : هل تعرفون هذا ؟}}</ref> Lange mentioned that according to some scholars, the ram in that Hadith narration is no other than the angel of death himself, while others assert, this to be death's own form in the hereafter.<ref name="Lange-2016" /> In other account sourced from [[Muqatil ibn Sulayman]], Azrael and death were said as one entity as he reported the angel has number of faces and hands equal to the number of living creatures on his body, where each of those faces and hands are connected with the life of each souls in the living world.<ref name="Ternyata Kita Tak Pantas Masuk Surga|trans-title=Turns out we did not deserve to enter the heaven" /> Whenever a face within Azrael body vanished, then the soul which connected with it will experience death.<ref name="Ternyata Kita Tak Pantas Masuk Surga|trans-title=Turns out we did not deserve to enter the heaven" />