Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4538 — The trial of the grave and the punishment

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer in his grave is in a garden (of Paradise); his grave is widened for him to seventy cubits, and it is lit up and illuminated for him like the moon on the fourteenth night. Do you know in what context this verse was revealed: 'then indeed, for him is a narrow life, and We will raise him on the Day of Resurrection blind' [Surah Ta Ha: 124]?" The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is about the punishment given to the disbeliever in his grave. By the One in whose Hand is my soul! Ninety-nine 'tinnin' (dragons) are set upon him (the disbeliever). Do you know what a 'tinnin' is? They are ninety-nine serpents, each serpent having seven heads; they blow venomous breaths into his body, bite him, and will keep tearing at him and wounding him until the Day of Resurrection."
Imam Ibn Hibban narrated this hadith in his Sahih (no: 3122), and Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut declared its chain hasan (good).