Category: Q n A

” The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) happened to pass by a woman (who was sitting) by the side of a grave.”

Be quiet, my daughter. Don’t you know that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had said:” The deceased is punished because of his family’s weeping over the death”?

The dead is punished in the grave because of wailing on it.

The same hadith is narrated on the authority of ‘Umar through another chain of transmitters.

When ‘Umar was wounded he fainted, and there was a loud lamentation over him. When he regained consciousness he said: Didn’t you know that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:” The dead is punished because of the weeping of the living”?

While we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), a person, one of the Ansar, came to him and greeted him. The Ansari then turned back. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: o brother of Ansar, how is my brother Sa’d be ‘Ubada? He said: He is better. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Who amongst you would visit him? He (the Holy Prophet) stood up and we also got up along with him, and we were more than ten persons. We had neither shoes with us, nor socks, nor caps, nor shirts. We walked on the barren land till we came to him. The people around him kept away till the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and his Companions with him came near him (Sa’d b. ‘Ubada).

Endurance is to be shown at the first blow.

Fear Allah and show endurance. She (not recognising him) said: You have not been afflicted as I have been. When he (the Holy Prophet) had departed, it was said to her that he was the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), she was mortally shocked. She came to his door and she did not find doorkeepers at his door. She said: Messenger of Allah. I did not recognise you. He said: Endurance is to be shown at first blow, or at the first blow.

This hadith has been narrated by another chain of transmitters on the authority of ‘Asim al-Ahwal.

Has he died? They said: Messenger of Allah, it is not so. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wept. When the people saw Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) weeping, they also began to weep. He said. Listen, Allah does not punish for the tears that the eye sheds or the grief the heart feels, but He punishes for this (pointing to his tongue), or He may show mercy.