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وَأَنْكَرَ عَذَابَ الْقَبْرِ بَعْضُ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ وَالرَّوَافِضِ؛ لِأَنَّ الْمَيِّتَ جَمَادٌ ...
Some Muʿtazilīs and some Rāfiḍīs denied grave punishment on the ground that the deceased is an inanimate body.

The objection argues that punishment requires experience, whereas the dead body displays no ordinary life or perception; therefore grave punishment is alleged to be impossible.

The contested premise is the inference from the absence of familiar signs of worldly life to the impossibility of every other form of awareness. The reasoning must be evaluated on that point, rather than by merely attaching a school label to the objector.

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The objection: the dead have no perception

Punishment and Bliss in the Grave, and Questioning by Munkar and Nakir

وَأَنْكَرَ عَذَابَ الْقَبْرِ بَعْضُ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ وَالرَّوَافِضِ؛ لِأَنَّ الْمَيِّتَ جَمَادٌ ...
Some Muʿtazilīs and some Rāfiḍīs denied grave punishment on the ground that the deceased is an inanimate body.

The objection argues that punishment requires experience, whereas the dead body displays no ordinary life or perception; therefore grave punishment is alleged to be impossible.

The contested premise is the inference from the absence of familiar signs of worldly life to the impossibility of every other form of awareness. The reasoning must be evaluated on that point, rather than by merely attaching a school label to the objector.