Is the following Hadith which says prophets would never get decomposed true or false?

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for Allah has forbidden the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets

Which is classified as Da'if.

The above authentic hadith specifically mentions that the earth does not consume ....

I would like to ask if this narration is true or false because I was about to write an article on it. Is there any hint from Quran?

Answering with "True" or "False" is difficult as neither you nor me nor anybody alive have heard the hadith. We can only give a qualification which can be right but could also be wrong, as we have no witnesses. Scholars have qualified ahadith and narrators according some rules, but this doesn't automatically imply that a hadith which has been qualified as sane by them was truly a saying of our Prophet (Peace be upon him) nor will this imply that a hadith qualified as weak was not. Of course when we have some kind of tawatur the degree of truth might get higher! We have no 100% certainty! — Medi1Saif♦, Apr 12 '16 at 7:22

AmerYR · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-09 12:54:09Z

This hadith is saheh "ibn heban" said it is saheh.

مِن أفضلِ أيَّامِكم يومُ الجمعةِ ، فيهِ خُلقَ آدمُ وفيهِ قبضَ وفيهِ النَّفخةُ وفيهِ الصَّعقةُ فأكثِروا عليَّ مِن الصَّلاةِ فيهِ فإنَّ صلاتَكم معروضةٌ عليَّ ، قالوا : يا رسولَ اللَّهِ وَكيفَ تُعرضُ علَيكَ صلاتُنا وقد أرِمتَ ؟ يعني وقد بليتَ قال : إنَّ اللَّهَ حرَّمَ علَى الأرضِ أن تأكلَ أجسادَ الأنبياءِ الراوي: أوس بن أبي أوس وقيل أوس بن أوس والد عمرو المحدث: الدارقطني - المصدر: تفسير القرآن - الصفحة أو الرقم: 6/463خلاصة حكم المحدث: [صحيح]

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