Horrors of the Grave

Disturbers of the Heart by Ibn al Jawzi. You will be able to download a copy of this here in sha’Allah: Heart

Hudhayfah related: “We were with the Prophet (SAW) at a funeral and when we arrived at the grave [in which the deceased was to be buried] he sat down on its edge and looked repeatedly in it then said: “The believer shall be squeezed in the grave; a squeeze from which his bones will be broken, while the grave of a disbeliever shall be filled with fire” (Ahmed in his Musnad (5/407)

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: “When a funeral is ready and the men carry the deceased on their necks (shoulders), if it was pious then it will say, ‘Present me quickly’, and if it was not pious, then it will say, ‘Woe to it (me), where are they taking it (me)? And its voice is heard by everything except mankind and we’re they to hear it they would fall unconscious.” (Sahih al-Bukhari (2/108,124)

Portrayal from the punishment of the grave

Samurah ibn Jundub narrated “The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said to us: ‘Last night, two angels came to me, and woke me up and said: ‘Let’s go!’ I set out with them, and we came across a man who was lying down, with another man standing over him, holding a big rock. He threw the rock  at a man’s head, smashing it. The rock rolled away, and the one who had thrown it followed it, and picked it up. By the time he came back to the man, his head had been restored to its former state. Then he (the one who had thrown the rock) did the same as he had done before. I said to my two companions, ‘Subhan ‘Allah! Who are these two persons?’ They said, ‘Move on!’ So we went on, and came to a man who was  lying flat on his back, with another man standing over him, holding an iron hook. He put the hook in the man’s mouth and tore off that side of his face to the back (of his neck), and he tore his nose and his from front to back in a similar manner. Then he turned to the other side of the man’s face and did likewise. No sooner had he finished the second side but the first side was restored to its former state, then he went back and did the same thing again. I said to my two companions, ”Who are these two persons?’ They said, ‘Move on!’ So we went on, and came to something like a tannur (a kind of oven, lined with clay, usually used for baking bread). We looked into it and saw naked men and women. A flame of fire was reaching them from underneath, and when it reached them, they cried out loudly. I asked them, ‘Who are these?’ They said to me, ‘Move on!’ So we went on and came to a river. In the river there was a man swimming, and on the bank there was a man who had gathered many stones. Whilst the swimmer was swimming, the man who had gathered the stones approached him. The swimmer opened his mouth  and the man on the bank threw a stone into it, then the swimmer carried on swimming. Each time he came back.  he opened his mouth again, and the man on the bank threw another stone into his mouth. They said to me: The first man you came across, whose head was being smashed with the rock, is the man who studies the Qur’an then he neither recites nor acts upon it, and he goes to sleep, neglecting the obligatory prayers. The man you came across whose mouth, nose and ears were being torn from front to back, is the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells a lie that is so serious that it spreads all over the world. The naked men and women whom you saw in a structure that resembled an oven are the adulterers and adulteresses. The man you saw swimming in the river with rocks being thrown into his mouth is the one who consumed riba (usury).

Sahl ibn Sa’d narrated that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: ‘A man may do the deeds of [the people of] Paradise, or so it may seem to the people, although he is one of the people of Hell, and a may do the deeds of [the people of] Hell, or so it may seem to the people, although he is one of the people of Paradise. [The determining factor of] deeds depends on what the last of them will be’ (Sahih Bukhari and Muslim)