পৃষ্ঠা 37: চতুর্থ অধ্যায়: নেক ও বদ আমলসমূহের মূর্ত প্রতীক রূপে ধারণ ও প্রতিরক্ষা

...praying in his grave. So I said to the one who was with me, 'Do you not see him?' He said, 'Be quiet.' When we leveled the grave over him and finished, we went to his daughter and asked her, 'What was the regular deed of Thabit?' She asked, 'What did you see?' So we informed her, and she said, 'He used to stand in night prayer (Qiyam al-Layl) for fifty years, and when the dawn (Sahar) approached, he would say in his supplication: "O Allah, if You have granted anyone the ability to pray in his grave, then grant it to me." Thus, Allah would never reject that supplication.'

Abu Bakr al-Khallal said: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Bishr informed me, saying: Salamah ibn Shabib narrated to us, saying: Hammad the gravedigger narrated to us, saying: 'I entered the graveyard on a Friday, and I did not come upon any grave except that I heard the recitation of the Quran coming from within it.'

Abu al-Hasan recorded in the book al-Rawdah, from 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad, from Mansur, who said: Ibrahim the gravedigger narrated to me, saying: 'I was digging a grave when a brick became loose. The moment the brick fell away, I smelled the scent of musk, and behold, there was an elderly man sitting in his grave reciting the Quran.'

The master of Hadith, Hibatullah al-Tabari al-Lalaka'i, narrated in the book Sharh al-Sunnah with his chain of transmission from Yahya ibn Ma'in, who said: A gravedigger said to me, 'The most astonishing thing I have ever witnessed in this cemetery is that I heard groaning from inside a grave like the groaning of a sick person, and I also heard a muezzin calling from another grave, while someone inside answered him from the grave.'

The master of Hadith, Abu Bakr al-Khatib, narrated with his chain of transmission from 'Isa ibn Muhammad al-Tumari, who said: 'I saw Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid, the Quran reciter, in a dream as though he was reciting, and it was as if I said to him, "You have died, yet you are reciting?" It was as if he replied to me, "I used to supplicate Allah at the conclusion of every prayer and upon completing the Quran to make me among those who recite in their graves."'

The traditionist Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf al-Sarmadi narrated to me, saying: Our Shaykh Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Samarri, the preacher of Samarra and a righteous man, narrated to us. He showed me a place among the graves of Samarra and said, 'From this spot, the recitation of Surah Tabarak (al-Mulk) is continuously heard.'

Ibn Abi al-Dunya recorded in the book Dhikr al-Mawt with a chain of transmission that contains some scrutiny, from al-Hasan, that he was asked about a man who dies without having learned the Quran, whether he reaches the rank of the people of the Quran. Al-Hasan wept and said, 'Far from it! Far from it! How could he achieve that?' Then he said, 'It has reached me that when a believer dies having learned nothing of the Quran, his guardian angels are commanded to teach him the Quran in his grave so that Allah may resurrect him on the Day of Resurrection among its people.'

And with his chain of transmission from Yazid al-Raqashi, who said: 'It has reached me that when a believer dies while something of the Quran remains that he has not yet learned, angels are sent to him to teach him to memorize whatever remained unlearned of it.'