Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the deceased hears the sound of their sandals as they turn their backs and go away. Then if he was a believer, the prayer is at his head, fasting is on his right, zakah is on his left, and good deeds such as charity, prayer, maintaining ties of kinship, kindness and good treatment of people are at his feet. When (the angels) come from the side of his head, the prayer says: 'There is no way of entry from my side.' Then they come from his right side, and fasting says: 'There is no way of entry from my side.' Then they come from his left side, and zakah says: 'There is no way of entry from my side.' Then they come from the side of his feet, and the good deeds say: 'There is no way of entry from my side.' Then it is said to him: 'Sit up,' and he sits up, and the sun is made to appear before him as though it is close to setting. It is said to him: 'What do you say about this man (Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)) who was among you, and what do you testify about him?' He says: 'Let me pray.' They say: 'You will soon do so, but tell us about what we are asking you.' He asks: 'What are you asking me about?' They say: 'Tell us about what we are asking you.' He says: 'Let me pray.' They say: 'You will soon do so, but tell us about what we are asking you.' He asks: 'What are you asking me about?' They say: 'Tell us about this man who was among you: what do you say about him, and what do you testify about him?' He says: 'Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)? I testify that he is the servant of Allah and that he brought the truth from Allah.' It is said to him: 'Upon this you lived, upon this you died, and upon this you will be resurrected, if Allah wills.' Then a door is opened for him towards Hell, and it is said to him: 'Look at this abode of yours, and at what Allah had prepared for you had you disobeyed,' and his joy and delight increase. Then a door is opened for him towards Paradise, and it is said to him: 'Look at your (real) abode and at what Allah has prepared for you,' and his joy and delight increase further. And this is the meaning of the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: 'Allah keeps firm those who believe with the firm word in the life of this world and in the Hereafter, and Allah sends the wrongdoers astray, and Allah does what He wills' [Ibrahim: 27] ." The narrator said: Abu al-Hakam, narrating from Abu Hurayrah, also mentioned that it is said to him: "Sleep as the bride sleeps, whom none wakes except the one of her family who is dearest to her." Then, returning to the narration of Abu Salamah from Abu Hurayrah, he said: "And if he was a disbeliever, he is approached from the side of his head, but nothing is found there; then from his right, his left and the side of his feet, but nothing is found there. It is said to him: 'Sit up,' and he sits up fearful and terrified. He is asked: 'What do you say about this man who was among you, and what do you testify about him?' He says: 'Which man?' They say: 'The man who was among you.' But he cannot recall him. Then they say: 'Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).' He says: 'I heard the people saying something, so I said as they said.' It is said to him: 'Upon this you lived, upon this you died, and upon this you will be resurrected, if Allah wills.' Then a door is opened for him towards Paradise, and it is said to him: 'Look at your abode, and at what Allah had prepared for you had you obeyed Him,' and his regret and ruin increase. Then his grave is made so narrow for him that his ribs interlock. And this is the meaning of the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: 'Then indeed, for him is a straitened life, and We will raise him on the Day of Resurrection blind' [Ta Ha: 124] ."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul, he hears the sound of their sandals as they turn their backs and go away from him." Then the narrator mentioned a narration similar in meaning to the hadith above, except that the hadith of Sa'id bin Amir is more complete. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning this saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: "a straitened life" [Surah Ta Ha: 124] , that he said: It refers to the punishment of the grave.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went out for a funeral, and Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was with him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) heard women weeping, and Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) scolded them. At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umar, let them weep, for the eye sheds tears, the soul is afflicted, and the grief is still fresh." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from the Battle of Uhud, he (peace and blessings be upon him) heard the women of the Ansar weeping, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "But Hamzah (may Allah be pleased with him) has no one to weep for him." When this reached the women of the Ansar, they began to weep for Sayyiduna Hamzah. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) slept, and when he woke up they were still weeping. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to them! They have been weeping the whole day today. Let them weep (now), but after today let them not weep (in this way) over anyone who dies." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but they did not record it. It is the most famous hadith in Madinah, for to this day the women of Madinah mention Sayyiduna Hamzah (may Allah be pleased with him) and lament him before they lament their own dead. The two Shaykhs agreed on recording the narration of Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani from Abdullah bin Abi Mulaykah, in which a debate took place between Abdullah bin Umar and Abdullah bin Abbas concerning weeping over the deceased; then they both referred the matter to the Mother of the Believers Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and she said: By Allah! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say, "The deceased is punished because of anyone's weeping"; rather, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the punishment of the disbeliever is increased because of his family's weeping over him." And indeed it is Allah who makes one laugh and makes one weep, and "No bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another." [Surah al-An'am: 164]

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) states that (after the passing of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)) Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "O Anas! Did your hearts allow you to throw dust upon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?!" The narrator says that Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) also said (in her grief and sorrow): "O my dear father, who answered the call of his Lord! O my dear father, how near he has become to his Lord! O my dear father, whose abode is the Garden of Firdaws! O my dear father, to Jibril I announce his death." Sa'id bin Mansur added in his narration from Abu Usamah that he said: I heard Hammad bin Zayd say: I saw Thabit al-Bunani, when he was narrating this hadith to us, weep so much that his ribs seemed to be heaving (from his sobs). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it!

Hakim bin Qays bin Asim narrates from his father that at the time of his death he made a bequest, saying: "When I die, do not wail over me, for no wailing was done over the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) either." This chain is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs did not record it. Qays bin Asim al-Minqari was the chief of Banu Tamim, and among the musnad narrations reported from him from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) there is nothing besides this statement. He had his bequest written down: "Do not wail over me, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbid wailing." A supporting narration (shahid) for this hadith is the narration of al-Hasan al-Basri in which the lengthy bequest of Qays bin Asim is mentioned, and there is also a supporting hadith narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him):

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) states that when Ibrahim, the son of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), passed away, Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) cried out. At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This (crying out) is not from me, and the one who cries out (in lament) has no right. The heart grieves and the eye sheds tears, but we do not say anything (with the tongue) that angers our Lord."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "When I die, do not wail over me, for no wailing was done over the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) either." This addition narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah is extremely gharib (singular), and Uthman al-Ghatafani does not meet the conditions of this book of ours.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) states that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to forbid elegies (poems of wailing and lamentation in memory of the dead). Ibrahim bin Muslim al-Hajari is not an abandoned (matruk) narrator, although the two Shaykhs did not use him as evidence. This hadith is a supporting narration (shahid) for the preceding narrations, and it is gharib sahih, since Imam Muslim used Sharik bin Abdullah as evidence.