Volume 2, Book 23, Number 455:
Narrated Asma’ bint Abi Bakr:
Allah’s Apostle once stood up delivering a sermon and mentioned the trial which people will face
in the grave. When he mentioned that, the Muslims started shouting loudly.
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 456:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When (Allah’s) slave is put in his grave and his companions return and he
even hears their footsteps, two angels come to him and make him sit and ask, ‘What did you use to
say about this man (i.e. Muhammad)?’ The faithful Believer will say, ‘I testify that he is Allah’s slave
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and His Apostle.’ Then they will say to him, ‘Look at your place in the Hell Fire; Allah has given you a
place in Paradise instead of it.’ So he will see both his places.” (Qatada said, “We were informed that
his grave would be made spacious.” Then Qatada went back to the narration of Anas who said;)
Whereas a hypocrite or a non-believer will be asked, “What did you use to say about this man.” He
will reply, “I do not know; but I used to say what the people used to say.” So they will say to him,
“Neither did you know nor did you take the guidance (by reciting the Quran).” Then he will be hit
with iron hammers once, that he will send such a cry as everything near to him will hear, except
Jinns and human beings. (See Hadith No. 422).
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 457:
Narrated Abi Aiyub:
Once the Prophet went out after sunset and heard a dreadful voice, and said, “The Jews are being
punished in their graves.”
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 458:
Narrated Musa bin ‘Uqba:
(From the daughter of Khalid bin Sa id bin Al-‘Asi) who said that she had heard the Prophet seek –
ing refuge with Allah from the punishment in the grave.
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 443:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
The Prophet once passed by two graves, and those two persons (in the graves) were being tortured.
He said, “They are being tortured not for a great thing (to avoid). One of them never saved himself
from being soiled with his urine, while the other was going about with calumnies (to make enmity
between friends). He then took a green leaf of a date-palm tree split it into two pieces and fixed one
on each grave. The people said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Why have you done so?” He replied, “I hope that
their punishment may be lessened till they (the leaf) become dry.”
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 459:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle used to invoke (Allah): “Allahumma ini a’udhu bika min ‘adhabi-l-Qabr, wa min
‘adhabi-nnar, wa min fitnati-l-mahya wa-lmamat, wa min fitnati-l-masih ad-dajjal. (O Allah! I seek
refuge with you from the punishment in the grave and from the punishment in the Hell fire and
from the afflictions of life and death, and the afflictions of Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal.”
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 444:
Narrated ‘Ali:
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“We were accompanying a funeral procession in Baqi-I-Gharqad. The Prophet came to us and sat
and we sat around him. He had a small stick in his hand then he bent his head and started scraping
the ground with it. He then said, “There is none among you, and not a created soul, but has place
either in Paradise or in Hell assigned for him and it is also determined for him whether he will be
among the blessed or wretched.” A man said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Should we not depend on what has
been written for us and leave the deeds as whoever amongst us is blessed will do the deeds of a
blessed person and whoever amongst us will be wretched, will do the deeds of a wretched person?”
The Prophet said, “The good deeds are made easy for the blessed, and bad deeds are made easy for the
wretched.” Then he recited the Verses:– “As for him who gives (in charity) and is Allah-fearing And
believes in the Best reward from Allah. ” (92.5-6)
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 460:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
The Prophet once passed by two graves and said, “They (the deceased persons in those graves) are
being tortured not for a great thing to avoid.” And then added, “Yes, (they are being punished for a
big sin), for one of them used to go about with calumnies while the other never saved himself from
being soiled with his urine.” (Ibn Abbas added): Then he took a green leaf of a date-palm) and split it
into two pieces and fixed one piece on each grave and said, “May their punishment be abated till
these (two pieces) get dry.”
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