Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We attended a funeral with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When we reached the grave, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat on its edge and began to look into it. Then he said: "In it the believer is squeezed so hard that his hama'il (neck and chest) are dislodged, and for the disbeliever it is filled with fire." The narrator then mentioned the whole hadith; it will come in full later in the chapter on Zuhd (asceticism), if Allah wills.
Ahmad recorded it. Its chain contains Muhammad bin Jabir, who is da'if (weak).
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4253
Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) was buried, we were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said Subhan Allah, and the people said Subhan Allah with him for a long while. Then he said Allahu Akbar, and the people also said Allahu Akbar. Then the people asked: "Why did you say Subhan Allah?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The grave had become narrow for this righteous man until Allah Almighty made it spacious for him."
Ahmad and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir recorded it. Its chain contains Mahmud bin Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Amr bin al-Jamuh; al-Husayni said: there is room for consideration about him (fihi nazar). (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: I have not found anyone other than him mentioning him.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4254
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسناده ضعیف
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الامام احمد فى المسند (377 ، 360/3) ، أخرجه مسند أحمد برقم: 14611، وأخرجه المعجم الكبير للطبراني برقم: 5346»
Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The grave squeezes. If anyone were to be saved from it, Sa'd bin Mu'adh would have been saved from it."
Ahmad recorded it from Nafi', from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and from Nafi', from a man, from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). The narrators of both chains are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4255
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسناده رِجالُہ
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الامام احمد فى المسند (98،55/6) ، أخرجه مسند أحمد برقم: 24142»
Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: A Jewish woman came to me and began talking with me about the punishment of the grave. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me, I told him what the woman had said, but the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me no reply. Afterwards he said: "O Aishah, seek refuge with Allah from the punishment of the grave, for if anyone were to be saved from it, Sa'd bin Mu'adh would have been saved from it; but it did nothing more to him than squeeze him." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
This was mentioned in a long hadith concerning the punishment of the grave.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Ibn Lahi'ah, and he has been criticised.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4256
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: On the day Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) was buried, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting by his grave. He said: "If anyone were to be saved from the trial of the grave (the narrator is unsure whether the words were:) from the questioning of the grave, Sa'd bin Mu'adh would have been saved. He was squeezed first and then released."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4257
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ حسن
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الكبير (10827) اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الأوسط 114 ، أخرجه المعجم الكبير للطبراني برقم: 10827، وأخرجه المعجم الأوسط للطبراني برقم: 6589»
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her), the daughter of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), passed away. We went out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and saw that he was extremely grieved, so we did not speak to him until he reached the grave, and the lahd had not yet been prepared there. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat down and we sat around him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) remained lost in thought for a while, then he began looking towards the sky. When the grave was ready, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went down into it, and I saw that his grief had increased. Then, when he had finished and came out of it, I saw that his distress had gone and he was smiling. We said: "O Messenger of Allah, at first we saw you troubled and grieved and we could not speak to you; then we saw that this state had left you. What is the reason for this?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was thinking of the narrowness of the grave, its distress and the weakness of Zaynab, and that weighed heavily on me. So I prayed to Allah Almighty to lighten it for Zaynab, and Allah Almighty did so. Yet the grave squeezed her once, and its sound was heard by everything between the earth and the sky except the jinn and mankind."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its chain is da'if (weak).
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4258
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ ضعیف۔
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الكبير (745)»
Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A child was buried. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If anyone were to be saved from the squeezing of the grave, this child would have been saved."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4259
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الكبير (3858) ، أخرجه المعجم الكبير للطبراني برقم: 3858»
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) offered the funeral prayer for a boy, or perhaps a girl, and said: "If anyone were to be saved from the squeezing of the grave, this child would have been saved."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4260
Nafi' said: We came to Sayyidah Safiyyah bint Abi Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with her), and she narrated to us that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I hold that if anyone were to be exempted from the squeezing of the grave, Sa'd bin Mu'adh would have been spared it; yet he too was squeezed."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and it is mursal. Its chain contains a narrator whom I do not know.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الجنائز / 4261
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسناده ضعیف
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الاوسط (1181)»