Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 4251

Sayyiduna Abu al-Hajjaj al-Thumali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the deceased is placed in the grave, the grave says to him: 'O son of Adam, woe to you! What deluded you about me? Did you not know that I am the house of trial and the house of darkness? What deluded you when you used to pass by me as a faddad, with your voice raised?' If he was a doer of good, the one who answers for the grave's occupant will reply on his behalf: 'What do you think if this man used to enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong?'" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then the grave will say: 'In that case I will become green for him,' (the narrator is unsure whether the words were:) his body will become radiant, and his soul will ascend to the Lord of the worlds." Ibn A'idh asked him: "O Abu al-Hajjaj, what is meant by faddad?" He said: "The one who sometimes puts his foot forward and sometimes back, the way you sometimes walk, O my nephew." The narrator said: On that day he had dressed up (in fine clothes) and made himself ready.
Abu Ya'la and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir recorded it. Its chain contains Abu Bakr bin Abi Maryam, in whom there is weakness because of his ikhtilat (deterioration of memory).