How Can We Reconcile Punishment Of The Grave Hadiths With The Quran?
From the Qur’an it is clear that we don’t need a body to be in the dreaming state, only the soul, as Allah takes away our souls during sleep. Also Allah Has not yet reconstructed the new bodies of dead people. In fact, the Quran (75:3,4) says: “Does man think that We will not reassemble his bones? Yes indeed; We are Able to reconstruct his fingertips.” So the bodies that we can see will be reconstructed only on Qiyaamah. It is possible that the soul will be transferred from the Barzakhi bodies to the reconstructed bodies on Qiyaamah. Does the Qur’an emphasize somewhere that this Barzakhi state is situated here on earth? If we don’t need bodies to get into the dreaming state, we don’t have to have a Barzakhi body.
Since people will come to life with their bodies on this earth on the day of judgement, so it is obvious that their Barzakhi life is here. We may have no need to have a body in our Barzakhi life, but as per the narration, the soul returns to a body, which suggests that it is a barzakhi body.