The gathering of mankind and the animals
Question

                What can you tell us about how people will look following the Resurrection? Will people will be wearing clothes or not? Will the animals be resurrected after death or not?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Allaah calls the Day of Resurrection the Day of Gathering 
    because Allaah will gather His slaves, mankind and the jinn. Allaah says: 

    “Indeed in that (there) is a sure lesson for those who 
    fear the torment of the Hereafter. That is a Day whereon mankind will be 
    gathered together, and that is a Day when all (the dwellers of the heavens 
    and the earth) will be present”

    [Hood 11:103] 

    “Say (O Muhammad): (Yes) verily, those of old, and those 
    of later times.

    All will surely be gathered together for appointed Meeting 
    of a known Day”

    [al-Waaqiyah 56:49-50] 

    “There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto 
    the Most Gracious (Allaah) as a slave.

    Verily, He knows each one of them, and has counted them a 
    full counting.

    And everyone of them will come to Him alone on the Day of 
    Resurrection (without any helper, or protector or defender)”

    [Maryam 19:93-95] 

    “And (remember) the Day We shall cause the mountains to 
    pass away (like clouds of dust), and you will see the earth as a levelled 
    plain, and we shall gather them all together so as to leave not one of them 
    behind”

    [al-Kahf 18:47]

    Also included in this gathering are the animals. Shaykh 
    al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyah) said: 

    “As for the animals, they will all be gathered by Allaah, as 
    is indicated by the Qur’aan and Sunnah. Allaah says (interpretation of the 
    meaning): 

    ‘There is not a moving (living) creature on earth, nor a 
    bird that flies with its two wings, but are communities like you. We have 
    neglected nothing in the Book, then unto their Lord they (all) shall be 
    gathered’

    [al-An’aam 6:38] 

    ‘And when the wild beasts are gathered together’

    [al-Takweer 81:5] 

    ‘And among His Ayaat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, 
    etc.) is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and whatever moving 
    (living) creatures He has dispersed in them both. And He is All-Potent over 
    their assembling (i.e. resurrecting them on the Day of Resurrection after 
    their death, and dispersion of their bodies) whenever He wills’

    [al-Shoora 42:29]
The word idha (translated 
    here as when or whenever) refers to something that will inevitably come to 
    pass. And there are many well known ahaadeeth on this topic. On the Day of 
    Resurrection Allaah will gather the animals, and the scores among them will 
    be settled. Then it will be said to them, “Be dust!” and they will become 
    dust. At that point the kaafir will say, “Would that I were dust!” (al-Naba’ 
    72:40 – interpretation of the meaning). Whoever says that they will not be 
    brought back to life is making a serious mistake, indeed he is misguided or 
    is a kaafir. And Allaah knows best. 

    Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 4/248 

    Ahmad (20534) narrated from Abu Dharr that the Messenger of 
    Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was sitting, and two 
    sheep locked horns, and one of them butted the other and defeated it. The 
    Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) smiled, 
    and it was said to him, “Why are you smiling, O Messenger of Allaah?” He 
    said, “Because of the sheep. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, it will 
    settle its score with the other on the Day of Resurrection.”  

    Ahmad Shaakir said, its isnaad is hasan and unbroken. 

    Muslim (2582) narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger 
    of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “All rights 
    will be restored on the Day of Resurrection, until even the hornless sheep 
    will settle its score with the one that has horns.” 

    Al-Nawawi said: 

    This clearly indicates that the animals will be gathered on 
    the Day of Resurrection, and that they will be brought back to life like 
    human beings who are accountable, and like children and the insane and those 
    who were not reached by the call of Islam. This is what is indicated by the 
    Qur’aan and Sunnah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    “And when the wild beasts are gathered together”

    [al-Takweer 81:5]

    If something is stated in a shar’i text, and there is no 
    rational or shar’i reason not to interpret it according to what it appears 
    to mean, then it must be taken at face value. The scholars said that it is 
    not a condition of the gathering or the resurrection that there should be 
    reward or punishment. With regard to the hornless sheep settling their 
    scores with those that have horns, this is not the retaliation that comes 
    with accountability, because they are not accountable. Rather it is simply 
    settling the scores. And Allaah knows best. 

    People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection barefoot, 
    naked and uncircumcised. It was narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be 
    pleased with him) that the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be 
    upon him) said: “You will be gathered barefoot, naked and uncircumcised.” 
    Then he recited, “As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it. (It 
    is) a promise binding upon Us. Truly, We shall do it” [al-Anbiya’ 21:104 – 
    interpretation of the meaning]. Then he said: “The first one to be 
    clothed on the Day of Resurrection will be Ibraaheem. Some people from among 
    my followers will be taken away towards the left and I will say, ‘My 
    followers, my followers!’ He will say, ‘They kept turning back on their 
    heels after you left them.’ And I will say what the righteous slave said:
    

    ‘And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, 
    but when You took me up, You were the Watcher over them; and You are a 
    Witness to all things. (This is a great admonition and warning to the 
    Christians of the whole world).

    If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if You 
    forgive them, verily, You, only You, are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise’
    

    [al-Maa’idah 5:117].”

    (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3349) 
It was narrated that 
    ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) said: “The Messenger of Allaah 
     (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘You will be gathered 
    barefoot, naked and uncircumcised.’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allaah, men and 
    women will be looking at one another?!’ He said, ‘The situation will be so 
    terrible that that will not concern them.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6527) 

    And it was narrated in the hadeeth that people will be 
    resurrected in the clothes in which they died. It was narrated that when Abu 
    Sa’eed al-Khudri was dying, he called for new clothes and put them on, then 
    he said, “I heard the Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of 
    Allaah be upon him) say, ‘The deceased will be resurrected in the clothes in 
    which he died.’” (Narrated by Abu Dawood, 3114; classed as saheeh by 
    al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 1671). 
This hadeeth may seem to 
    contradict the hadeeth quoted above, which says that they will be 
    resurrected naked. The scholars reconciled between the two reports by noting 
    the following points: 

    1-That they will be raised in 
    those garments but they will wear out after the resurrection, and when they 
    reach the place of standing they will be naked.

    2-They will be raised naked then 
    when the Prophets and Siddeeqs etc have been clothed, everyone else will be 
    clothed in the same kind of clothes as those in which they died.

    3-Some of the scholars 
    interpreted this hadeeth as referring to the martyrs (shuhada’), because 
    they are the ones whom the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be 
    upon him) commanded should be buried in the clothes in which they died, so 
    they will be resurrected in their clothes in order to distinguish them from 
    others.

    4-What is meant by clothes is 
    righteous deeds, as in the verses (interpretation of the meanings)

    “and the raiment of righteousness, that is better”

    [al-A’raaf 7:26]

    “And purify your garments”

    [al-Muddaththir 74:4]
What is meant by a person 
    being resurrected according to what he was doing when he died is that if his 
    final action was good, then it will be good (for him) and if it was bad then 
    it will be bad (for him). This is indicated by the hadeeth of Jaabir who 
    said: “I heard the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
    say, ‘Every person will be resurrected in the manner that he died.’” 
    (Narrated by Muslim, 2878) 

    And Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him): “The 
    Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: 
    ‘When Allaah sends down punishment upon a people, the punishment also 
    befalls those who were among them, then they will be resurrected according 
    to their deeds.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 7108). 

    This is also indicated by the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas (may 
    Allaah be pleased with him) who said: “Whilst a man was at ‘Arafah, he fell 
    from his mount and broke his neck (or it broke his neck). The Prophet  
    (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ‘Wash him with water and 
    lotus leaves, and shroud him in two garments, but do not apply perfume or 
    cover his head, for he will be raised on the Day of Resurrection reciting 
    the Talbiyah.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1265). 

    And it was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet  
    (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every wound that the 
    Muslim receives for the sake of Allaah will appear on the Day of 
    Resurrection as it was at the time when it was inflicted; blood will be 
    flowing from the wound and its color will be that of blood but its smell 
    will be the fragrance of musk.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 237). 

    Hence it is mustahabb to encourage one who is dying to say 
    Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah, so that these good words will be his last words 
    in this world and he will be raised saying them on the Day of Resurrection. 
     

    See Fath al-Baari, 11/383 
The people will be 
    gathered on that Day on another earth, one that is different from this 
    earth, with specific features that are explained in the Sunnah. It was 
    narrated that Sahl ibn Sa’d said: “I heard the Prophet  (peace and 
    blessings of Allaah be upon him) say, ‘The people will be gathered on the 
    Day of Resurrection on reddish white land like a pure loaf of bread (made 
    from pure fine flour).” Sahl or someone else said, “It will have no 
    landmarks for anyone (to make use of).” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6521) 

    ‘Afra’ (translated here as reddish) means white that has a 
    hint of redness; or it was said that it is intensely white; or it was said 
    that it means pure white.  A pure loaf of bread means a loaf that is made 
    from pure flour that is unadulterated.