Volume 8, Book 73, Number 78:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
Allah’s Apostle passed by two graves and said, “Both of them (persons in the grave) are being tor –
tured, and they are not being tortured for a major sin. This one used not to save himself from being
soiled with his urine, and the other used to go about with calumnies (among the people to rouse hos –
tilities, e.g., one goes to a person and tells him that so-and-so says about him such-and-such evil
things). The Prophet then asked for a green leaf of a date-palm tree, split it into two pieces and
planted one on each grave and said, “It is hoped that their punishment may be abated till those two
pieces of the leaf get dried.” (See Hadith No 215, Vol 1).