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Is Al-Khidr still living on the face of the earth until the present day? And will he remain alive until the Day of Resurrection?
Al-Khidr is not alive, rather he died. The Quran states that no human has been granted immortality, and a Hadith confirms that all people alive during the Prophet Muhammad's time passed away within a century. If Al-Khidr had been alive, he would have followed the Prophet.
Praise be to Allah.
Shaykh Ash-Shanqiti (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
The stories of Al-Khidr told by the righteous are innumerable. They claim that he and Ilyas perform Hajj each year and they narrated Du`as from them, and these stories are well known and widespread, but the basis of what they say is very weak, because most of them are stories narrated from some of those whom they think are righteous, or dreams and Hadiths that are attributed to Anas or others, but all of them are inauthentic narrations and cannot be used to prove anything.
What seems to me to be more likely, based on the evidence concerning this matter, is that Al-Khidr is not alive , rather he died. This is for a number of reasons:
{And We granted not to any human being immortality before you (O Muhammad); then if you die, would they live forever?} [Al-Anbiya’ 21:34]
Muslim ibn Al-Hajjaj said that `Abdullah ibn `Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) led us in praying `Isha’ one night towards the end of his life, then he stood up and said: ‘Do you see this night of yours? One hundred years from now not one of those who are on the face of the earth now will remain.” Ibn `Umar said: “The people did not understand these words of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and they said that this meant that the Day of Resurrection would come after one hundred years. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘not one of those who are on the face of the earth now will remain’ meaning that that generation would pass away.”
And Allah knows best.