Most Muslims have consensus on the belief and it is also...
Most Muslims have consensus on the belief and it is also considered as a necessary principle of faith. Allamah Majlisi has written in this connection: All the believers in heavenly religions have consensus that resurrection would be bodily and it is a necessary principle of faith. Verses of Quran have very clearly explained this point and it is not right to interpret them in any other way.
In addition to this an inordinate number of traditions (Mutawatir) prove the same.[^1] Sadruddin Shirazi writes: The fact is that in resurrection, this same worldly body will return and not something like it; in such a way that if one sees that, he would say: He is so and so person that was present in the world.[^2] Faiz Kashani writes: One who would come back in resurrection and one who would be herded in the hereafter, is the same human person that was present in the world and Barzakh, from the aspect of the soul as well as from the aspect of the body, in such a way that if someone sees him in the field of gathering, he would say: He is so and so person that was present in the world.
As Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) said with regard to Barzakh: If you see him, you would say: He is that same so and so person that was present in the world.[^3] Therefore we should accept that the man who would be herded in Qiyamat is the same person from the aspect of the soul as well as the body, who lived in the world with the important difference that the body of the world was subject to change, it was prone to disease and old age; but on the contrary the form of the hereafter does not age and is not prone to disease.
The Messenger of Allah (S) said: O children of Abdul Muttalib, the guards do not lie to their folks. By Allah, you will die just as you go to sleep and just as you awake from sleep, you would also be raised up after death. After death, there is nothing except Paradise or Hell and the creation and raising of people for Qiyamat is just like the creation of a single person and not more than that.