“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: ‘The niche-grave is for us and the ditch-grave is forothers.”

“I came one night to guardthe Prophet (ﷺ), and there was a man reciting loudly. The Prophet(ﷺ) came out and I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, this man isshowingoff.’ Then he died in Al-Madinah, and they finishedpreparing him,then they carried his dead body. The Prophet (ﷺ)said: ‘Be gentlewith him, may Allah be gentle with him, for heloved Allah and HisMessenger.’ Then his grave was dug and he (theProphet (ﷺ)) said:‘Make it spacious for him, and may Allah makeit spacious for him.’Some of his Companions said: ‘O Messengerof Allah, you are grievingfor him.’ He said: ‘Yes indeed, for heloved Allah and HisMessenger.’”

“Dig the grave deep, make it spacious and prepare itwell.”

“While I waswalkingwith the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) he said: ‘O son ofKhasasiyyah,why are you angry with Allah when you are walking withthe Messengerof Allah?’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! I am not angrywithAllah at all. Allah has bestowed all good on me.’ Then he passedbythe graves of the Muslims and said: ‘They have caught up with agreat deal of good.’ Then he passed by the graves of the idolatersandsaid: ‘They died before a great deal of good came to them.’Then heturned and saw a man walking between the graves in his shoesand hesaid: ‘O you with the shoes, take them off.’” Muhammad bin Bashar narrated from Abdur-Rahman bin Mahdi that he said: Abdullah bin Uthman used to say (about this hadith): "A good hadith and a reliable narrator."

It wasnarrated from Ibn Mas’ud that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said, “Iused to forbid you to visit the graves, but now visit them,for theywill draw your attention away from this world and remind youof theHereafter.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)cursed women who visit graves.”

“Mu’awiyah delivered asermon in Hims, and in his sermon he mentioned that the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) forbade wailing.”

‘Wailing is one of the affairs of the Days of Ignorance,andif the woman who wails dies without having repented, Allah willcut agarment of pitch (tar) for her and a shirt of flaming fire.’”

“The deceased ispunished for the weeping of the living. If they say: ‘O mystrength, O he who clothed us, O my help, O my rock,’ and so on, heis rebuked and it is said: ‘Were you really like that? Were youreally like that?’” Asid said: "I said: 'Subhan-Allah! Allah says: "And no bearer of burdens shall another's burden (35:18)." He said: "Woe to you, I tell you that Abu Musa narrated to me from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and you think that Abu Musa was telling lies about the Prophet (ﷺ)? Or do you think that I am telling lies about Abu Musa?"

"Patience should come with the first shock."

TheProphet(ﷺ) said: “Whoever was stricken with a calamity and when heremembers it he says ‘Inna lillahi, wa inna ilayhi raji’un(Truly, toAllah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return),’even though ithappened a long time ago, Allah will record for him areward like thatof the day it befell him.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said:‘Whoever consoles a person stricken by calamity will have arewardequal to his.’”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)say:‘There is no Muslim, three of whose children die before reachingthe age of puberty, but they will meet him at the eight gates ofParadise and whichever one he wants he will enter through it.’”

“When Ja’far was killed, the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) went to his family and said: ‘The family of Ja’fararebusy with the matter of their deceased, so prepare food forthem.’” (One of the narrators) Abdullah said: "That continued to be the Sunnah, until innovations were introduced, then it was abandoned."

Dying in a strange land is martyrdom.”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)say: ‘There is no Prophet who fell sick but he was given thechoicebetween this world and the Hereafter.’ She said: ‘When hebecamesick with the illness that would be his last, (his voice)becamehoarse and I heard him say, “In the company of those on whomAllahhas bestowed His grace, of the Prophets, the true believers, themartyrs, and the righteous.’” [4:69] Then I knew that he had beengiven the choice.”

“They said in ‘Aishah’s presencethat‘Ali was appointed (by the Prophet (ﷺ) before he died), and shesaid: ‘When was he appointed? He (the Prophet (ﷺ)) was restingagainst my bosom, or in my lap, and he called for a basin, then hebecame limp in my lap and died, and I did not realize it. So when didhe (ﷺ) appoint him?’”

“When the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) suffered the agonies of death that he suffered, Fatimahsaid:‘O my father, what a severe agony!’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: ‘Your father will suffer no more agony after this day. Therehascome to your father that which no one can avoid, the death thateveryone will encounter until the Day of Resurrection.’”

“At the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), ifaperson stood to pray, his gaze would not go beyond his feet. WhentheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) died, if a person stood to pray, his gazewould not go beyond the place where he put his forehead whenprostrating. Then Abu Bakr died and it was ‘Umar (the caliph). So,when any person stood to pray his gaze would not go beyond theQiblah.Then came the time of ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan, and there wasFitnah(tribulation, turmoil), and the people started to look rightandleft.”

‘The best of your days is Friday. On it Adam was created; on itshall be the Nafakhah,* on it all creation will swoon. So send agreatdeal of blessing upon me on this day, for your blessing will bepresented to me.’ A man said: “O Messenger of Allah! How will ourblessing be presented to you when you have disintegrated?” He said:“Allah has forbidden the earth to consume the bodies of theProphets.”