Abu Sa'id reported God’s messenger as saying, “Ninety-nine dragons will be given power over an infidel in his grave, and will bite and sting him till the last hour comes. If one of those dragons were to breathe over the earth, it would bring forth no green thing." Darimi transmitted it, and Tirmidhi transmitted something similar, but he said seventy instead of ninety-nine.
Hadith Referenceمشكوة المصابيح / كتاب الإيمان / 134
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:ضعيف | زبیر علی زئی:حسن
Hadith Takhrij´تحقيق و تخريج: محدث العصر حافظ زبير على زئي رحمه الله` «حسن، رواه الدارمي (1/ 331 ح 2818 وسنده حسن) والترمذي (2460 وقال: غريب) و سنده ضعيف. انظر أنوار الصحيفة (ص 258) و حديث الدارمي يغني عنه . قلت: دراج صدوق و حديثه عن أبي الھيثم حسن لذاته .»
◈ In the chain of al-Darimi, there is the narrator Darraj, who is trustworthy and hasan al-hadith (good in narration), but his narration from Abu al-Haytham is weak. See: [تقريب التهذيب : 1824، و سنن الترمذي : 2033 بتحقيقي] ◈ And this narration has been reported by Darraj from Abu al-Haytham, therefore, this chain is weak. In the chain of al-Tirmidhi, both ‘Ubaydullah ibn al-Walid and ‘Atiyyah al-‘Awfi are weak.
Note: Darraj’s narration from Abu al-Haytham is not weak, rather it is hasan (good). See: [اضواء المصابيح فى تحقيق مشكاة المصابيح ح : 222] Therefore, the narration of al-Darimi is hasan li-dhatihi (intrinsically good). «والحمد لله عليٰ اصلاح ذلك»
Source: Adwa al-Masabih fi Tahqiq Mishkat al-Masabih, Page: 134
´Abu Sa'eed narrated:` " The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) entered his Musalla and saw the people who looked as if they were smiling. So he said: 'Indeed, if you were to increase in remembrance of the severer of pleasures, then you would find yourselves too busy for what I see. So increase in remembrance of death, the severer of pleasures. For indeed there is no day that comes upon the grave except that it speaks, saying: "I am thee house of the estranged, I am the house of the solitude, I am the house of dust, and I am the house of the worm-eaten." When the believing worshipper is buried, the grave says to him: "Welcome, make yourself comfortable. Indeed, to me, you are the most beloved of those who walked upon me. Since you have been entrusted to me and delivered to me today, you shall see what I have arranged for you." It will then widen for him so that his sight extends, and the door to Paradise is opened for him. And when the wicked worshipper or the disbeliever is buried , the grave says to him: "You are not welcome, do not get comfortable. Indeed, to me, you are the most hated of those who walked upon me. Since you have been entrusted to me and delivered to me today, you shall see what I have arranged for you.'" He said: 'It will begin closing in on him(squeezing him) until his ribs are crushing each other.'" He said: " The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) clasped some of his fingers between others and said: 'Seventy giant serpents will constrict him, if even one of them were to hiss on the earth, nothing upon it would grow as long as it remained. They will chew on him and bite him until he is brought to the Reckoning.'" He said: " The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: 'The grave is but a garden from the gardens of Paradise, or a pit from the pits of the Fire.'"
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Commentary: Note: (In the chain of narration, both Ubaydullah Wasafi and Atiyyah Awfi are weak narrators.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 2460