Question

Can you please provide the reference for the following Hadith?

“Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) says: “Once we walked with a janazah in the Company of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam). Upon reaching the graveyard, Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) sat at the side of one grave and said: “No day passes over the grave wherein it does not announce in a very eloquent and clear voice:

“O Son of Adam! You have forgotten me. I am a house of solitude, I am a house of strangers, I am a house of horror, I am a house of insects, I am a very narrow house except for that person whom Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’aala causes me to expand.”

Thereafter Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) said: “The grave is either a garden from amongst the Gardens of Jannah or a pit from amongst the Pits of Jahannam.”

Jazakumullah Khayran

 

Answer

The above Hadith has been recorded by Imam Tabarani (rahimahullah) in his Al-Mu’jamul Awsat, Hadith: 8608, Majma’uz Zawaid, vol. 3 pg. 46 and Targhib, vol. 4 pg. 238)

This Hadith is also reported by Sayyiduna Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri (radiyallahu’anhu) in Tirmidhi, (Hadith: 2460) with similar wording.

 

And Allah Ta’ala Knows best,

 

Answered by: Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar

 

Checked by: Moulana Haroon Abasoomar