It is narrated from Sayyida Asma bint Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When a person enters the grave, if he is a believer, then his good deeds such as prayer and fasting surround him. When the angel comes to him from the side of prayer, the prayer stops him, and when he comes from the side of fasting, the fasting stops him. Therefore, the angel calls out from a distance: Sit up. He sits up. The angel asks: What do you say about this man, meaning the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)? He asks in return: Which man? The angel says: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). He says: I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah. The angel says: How did you come to know this? Did you see him (peace and blessings be upon him)? He says: I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah. The angel says: You lived your life on this belief, you died on this, and you will be raised on this. If the deceased person is a disbeliever or a sinner, then the angel comes to him and there is nothing (in the form of deeds) to stop the angel from him. So the angel makes him sit and asks: What do you say about this man? He says: Which man? The angel says: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). He says: By Allah! I do not know anything, yes, whatever I used to hear people say, I used to say the same. The angel says to him: You lived your life on this, you died on this, and you will be raised on this. After that, a living creature is set upon him in his grave, it has a whip, the result of whose (strike) is like a burning ember the size of a large camel bucket. As long as Allah wills, it will keep striking him. That creature will be deaf, so that it does not have mercy on him by hearing his cries.