Ibn `Abbas said, `Umar used to say so. Then he added narrating, I accompanied `Umar on a journey from Mecca till we reached Al-Baida. There he saw some travelers in the shade of a Samura (A kind of forest tree). He said (to me), Go and see who those travelers are. So I went and saw that one of them was Suhaib. I told this to `Umar who then asked me to call him. So I went back to Suhaib and said to him, Depart and follow the chief of the faithful believers. Later, when `Umar was stabbed, Suhaib came in weeping and saying, O my brother, O my friend! (on this `Umar said to him, O Suhaib! Are you weeping for me while the Prophet said, The dead person is punished by some of the weeping of his relatives?
Read More..Ibn Abbas added, When `Umar died I told all this to Aisha and she said, 'May Allah be merciful to `Umar. By Allah, Allah's Apostle did not say that a believer is punished by the weeping of his relatives. But he said, Allah increases the punishment of a non-believer because of the weeping of his relatives. Aisha further added, The Qur'an is sufficient for you (to clear up this point) as Allah has stated: 'No burdened soul will bear another's burden.' (35.18). Ibn `Abbas then said, Only Allah makes one laugh or cry. Ibn `Umar did not say anything after that.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) Once Allah's Apostle passed by (the grave of) a Jewess whose relatives were weeping over her. He said, They are weeping over her and she is being tortured in her grave.
Read More..Narrated Abu Burda: That his father said, When `Umar was stabbed, Suhaib started crying: O my brother! `Umar said, 'Don't you know that the Prophet said: The deceased is tortured for the weeping of the living'?
Read More..Narrated Al-Mughira: I heard the Prophet saying, Ascribing false things to me is not like ascribing false things to anyone else. Whosoever tells a lie against me intentionally then surely let him occupy his seat in Hell-Fire. I heard the Prophet saying, The deceased who is wailed over is tortured for that wailing.
Read More..Narrated Ibn 'Umar from his father: The Prophet said, The deceased is tortured in his grave for the wailing done over him. Narrated Shu'ba: The deceased is tortured for the wailing of the living ones over him .
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