حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَدُّوَيْهِ حَدَّثَنَا الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ الْحَکَمِ الْعُرَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْوَصَّافِيُّ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ قَالَ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُصَلَّاهُ فَرَأَی نَاسًا کَأَنَّهُمْ يَکْتَشِرُونَ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّکُمْ لَوْ أَکْثَرْتُمْ ذِکْرَ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ لَشَغَلَکُمْ عَمَّا أَرَی فَأَکْثِرُوا مِنْ ذِکْرِ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ الْمَوْتِ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَأْتِ عَلَی الْقَبْرِ يَوْمٌ إِلَّا تَکَلَّمَ فِيهِ فَيَقُولُ أَنَا بَيْتُ الْغُرْبَةِ وَأَنَا بَيْتُ الْوَحْدَةِ وَأَنَا بَيْتُ التُّرَابِ وَأَنَا بَيْتُ الدُّودِ فَإِذَا دُفِنَ الْعَبْدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ قَالَ لَهُ الْقَبْرُ مَرْحَبًا وَأَهْلًا أَمَا إِنْ کُنْتَ لَأَحَبَّ مَنْ يَمْشِي عَلَی ظَهْرِي إِلَيَّ فَإِذْ وُلِّيتُکَ الْيَوْمَ وَصِرْتَ إِلَيَّ فَسَتَرَی صَنِيعِيَ بِکَ قَالَ فَيَتَّسِعُ لَهُ مَدَّ بَصَرِهِ وَيُفْتَحُ لَهُ بَابٌ إِلَی الْجَنَّةِ وَإِذَا دُفِنَ الْعَبْدُ الْفَاجِرُ أَوْ الْکَافِرُ قَالَ لَهُ الْقَبْرُ لَا مَرْحَبًا وَلَا أَهْلًا أَمَا إِنْ کُنْتَ لَأَبْغَضَ مَنْ يَمْشِي عَلَی ظَهْرِي إِلَيَّ فَإِذْ وُلِّيتُکَ الْيَوْمَ وَصِرْتَ إِلَيَّ فَسَتَرَی صَنِيعِيَ بِکَ قَالَ فَيَلْتَئِمُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّی يَلْتَقِيَ عَلَيْهِ وَتَخْتَلِفَ أَضْلَاعُهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِأَصَابِعِهِ فَأَدْخَلَ بَعْضَهَا فِي جَوْفِ بَعْضٍ قَالَ وَيُقَيِّضُ اللَّهُ لَهُ سَبْعِينَ تِنِّينًا لَوْ أَنْ وَاحِدًا مِنْهَا نَفَخَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَا أَنْبَتَتْ شَيْئًا مَا بَقِيَتْ الدُّنْيَا فَيَنْهَشْنَهُ وَيَخْدِشْنَهُ حَتَّی يُفْضَی بِهِ إِلَی الْحِسَابِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنَّمَا الْقَبْرُ رَوْضَةٌ مِنْ رِيَاضِ الْجَنَّةِ أَوْ حُفْرَةٌ مِنْ حُفَرِ النَّارِ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَی هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لَا نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ
جامع ترمذی · Hadith 2460
Abu Sa'eed narrated: The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) entered his Musalla and saw the people who looked as if they were smiling. So he said: 'Indeed, if you were to increase in remembrance of the severer of pleasures, then you would find yourselves too busy for what I see. So increase in remembrance of death, the severer of pleasures. For indeed there is no day that comes upon the grave except that it speaks, saying: I am thee house of the estranged, I am the house of the solitude, I am the house of dust, and I am the house of the worm-eaten. When the believing worshipper is buried, the grave says to him: Welcome, make yourself comfortable. Indeed, to me, you are the most beloved of those who walked upon me. Since you have been entrusted to me and delivered to me today, you shall see what I have arranged for you. It will then widen for him so that his sight extends, and the door to Paradise is opened for him. And when the wicked worshipper or the disbeliever is buried , the grave says to him: You are not welcome, do not get comfortable. Indeed, to me, you are the most hated of those who walked upon me. Since you have been entrusted to me and delivered to me today, you shall see what I have arranged for you.' He said: 'It will begin closing in on him(squeezing him) until his ribs are crushing each other.' He said: The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) clasped some of his fingers between others and said: 'Seventy giant serpents will constrict him, if even one of them were to hiss on the earth, nothing upon it would grow as long as it remained. They will chew on him and bite him until he is brought to the Reckoning.' He said: The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: 'The grave is but a garden from the gardens of Paradise, or a pit from the pits of the Fire.'
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020