Abu Dharr told that God’s Messenger addressed him by name and he replied, "At your service and at your pleasure, Messenger of God.”He said, "How will you do when death 1 smites people and a house, meaning a grave, will cost as much as a slave?”On his replying that God and His apostle knew best, he said, "Show endurance.”Hammad b. [Abu] Sulaiman said that the hand of one who rifles a grave 2 should be cut off because he had entered the deceased’s house. Abu Dawud transmitted it. 1. Here "death”is used as a figure for a severe pestilence. 2. Mirqat, iv, 59, say this is done to steal the shroud.