Mishkat al-Masabih 5352 — (Ar-riqaq) Words that soften the heart

Abu Sa'eed Narrated from:

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم came out for the salah (prayer). He observed some men showing their teeth (as though grinning). He said, "If you devote much (time) to remember the destroyer of tastes, it would prevent you from what I see (now). So, remember often death, the destroyer of tastes, for there does not come a day to any grave when it does not call out, 'I am the home of the strange. I am the home of solitude. I am the home of dust. I am the home of worms.' (A far off place, deserted, dust from what you were created, infested with creeping creatures.)When a believer is buried, the grave says to him, 'welcome! Of all those who walk on my back, you are the dearest to me. Today, you have been entrusted to me, and you shall see how I treat you (kindly).' It will then expand for him to the limit of his sight and a gate to paradise will be opened for him.However, when a sinner or a disbeliever is buried, the grave says to him, 'You are unwelcome! You are, indeed, the most despised to me of those who walk on my back. You are entrusted to me today and you have come to me. You shall see how I treat you (badly).' It will then squeeze him so hard that his ribs would overlap (on one another.)"The narrator said that Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم showed this with his fingers intertwined, and he said further," Seventy dragons will be set upon him, such that if one of them were to exhale on earth, it would not produce any crop till the end of the world. They will sting and scratch him till he is resurrected to give reckoning." The narrator also said that Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "The grave is, indeed, a garden of the gardens of paradise, or a pit of the pits of hell."