Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You may narrate from the Children of Israel, there is no harm in it, for among them are some astonishing matters." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) himself said: "A group from the Children of Israel set out and passed by a graveyard of theirs. They said: If we pray two rak‘ahs and supplicate to Allah that He brings forth a dead person for us (from his grave), so that we may ask him about death. So they did so. While they were doing this, a wheat-colored man raised his head from the grave, and there was a mark of prostration on his forehead. He said: O! What do you want from me? I died a hundred years ago, but the heat of death has not yet subsided. Now pray to Allah that He returns me to the state in which I was."