Al-Bara' bin 'Azib (RA) reported that this verse:" Allah keeps steadfast those who believe with firm word in th;s world and the Hereafter," was revealed in con- nection with the torment of the grave.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported: When the soul of a believer would go out (of his body) it would be received bv two angels who would take it to the sky. Hammad (one of the narrators in the chain of transmitters) mentioned the swetness of its odour, (and further said) that the dwellers of the sky say: Here comes the pious soul from the side of the earth Let there be blessings of Allah upon the body in which it resides. And it is carried (by the angels) to its Lord, the Exalted and Glorious. He would say: Take it to its destined end. And if he is a nonbeliever and as it (the soul) leaves the body-Hammad made a mention of its foul smell and of its being cursed-the dwellers of the sky say: There comes a dirty soul from the side of the earth, and it would be said: Take it to its destined end. Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) put a thin cloth which was with him upon his nose while making a mention (of the foul smell) of the soul of a non-believer.

Anas bin Malik (RA) reported: We were along with Umar between Makkah and Madinah that we began to look for the new moon. And I was a man with sharp eye- sight, so I could see it, but none except me saw it. I began to say to 'Umar (RA): Don't you see it? But he would not see it. Thereupon Umar said: I would soon be able to see it (when it will shine more brightly). I lay upon bed. He then made a mention of the people of Badr to us and said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) showed us one day before (the actual battle) the place of death of the people (participating) in (the Battle) of Badr and he was saying: This would be the place of death of so and so tomorrow, if Allah wills. Umar said: By Him Who sent him with truth, they did not miss the places (of their death) which Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had pointed for them. Then they were all thrown in a well one after another. Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) then went to them and said: O, so and so, the son of so and so; O so and so, the son of so and so, have you found correct what Allah and His Messenger had promised you? I have, however, found absolutely true what Allah had promised with me. Umar said: Allah's Messenger, how are you talking with the bodies without soul in them. Thereupon he said: You cannot hear more distinctly than (their hearing) of what I say, but with this exception that they have not power to make any reply.

Anas bin Malik (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) let the dead bodies of the unbelievers who fought in Badr (lie unburied) for three days. He then came to them and sat by their side and called them and said: O Abu Jahl bin Hisham, O Umayya bin Khalaf, O Utba bin Rab'ila, O Shaiba bin Rabi'ah, have you not found what your Lord had promised with you to be correct? As for me, I have found the promises of my Lord to be (perfectly) correct. Umar listened to the words of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and said: Allah's Messenger, how do they listen and respond to you? They are dead and their bodies have decayed. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, what I am saying to them, even you cannot hear more distinctly than they, but they lack the power to reply. Then'he commanded that they should be buried in the well of Badr.

Yusuf ibn Hammad al-Ma'ni narrated to me, 'Abd al-A'la narrated to us, from Sa'id, from Qatadah, from Anas ibn Malik, from Abu Talhah.
And Muhammad ibn Hatim narrated it to me, Rawh ibn 'Ubadah narrated to us, Sa'id ibn Abi 'Arubah narrated to us, from Qatadah, who said: Anas ibn Malik mentioned to us, from Abu Talhah, who said:
When it was the Day of Badr and the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prevailed over them, he ordered for a number of twenty-some men—and in the narration of Rawh: twenty-four men from the chiefs of Quraysh—to be thrown into a well among the wells of Badr, and he narrated the hadith with the meaning of the hadith of Thabit from Anas.

'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: He who is taken to account on the Day of Resurrection is in fact put to torment. I said: Has Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, not said this: 'He will be made subject to an easy reckoning" (Ixxxiv. 8)? Thereupon he said: (What it implies) is not the actual reckoning, but only the presentation of one's deeds to Him. He who is thoroughly examined in reckoning is put to torment.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ayyub with the same chain of transmitters.

'A'isha reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Everyone who is reckoned thoroughly is undone. I said: Allah's Messenger, has Allah not called (reckoning) as easy reckoning? Thereupon he said.. It implies only presenta- tion of (one's deeds to Him), but if one is thoroughly examined in reckoning, he in fact is undone.

'A'isha reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: He who is examined thoroughly In reckoning is undone.

Jabir reported: I heard Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying three days before his death: None of you should court death but only hoping good from Allah