income, traded with usury and bribery, did not pay back what he owed deliberately, consumed alcohol, gambled, offended Muslims without religious justification, stole, looted, breached trust, watched and showed films or dramas, listened (and/or made others) to music, used indecent language, lied, used to backbite, gossiped, slandered, habitually expressed arrogance and disobeyed parents then it may be that under this apparently still soil there is restlessness, the door of Hell is open, fire is burning, snakes and scorpions have covered the deceased while cries of agony spread therein which we cannot hear. 

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

What does the grave say to the deceased?

Dear Islamic brothers! What does the grave say to the one who is buried therein? Let us listen to some narrations about this. 

Abul Hajjaj Sumali رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه has narrated that Allah’s Final Prophet, the Arabian Messenger صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said, ‘When the deceased is lowered into the grave, the grave addresses him (saying), ‘O man, may you be ruined! Why did you forget me? Did you not know that I am an abode of trials, an abode of darkness? Then, why did you walk over me with arrogance?’ If the deceased is pious an unseen voice says to the grave, ‘O grave, if he is among those who enjoin good and forbid evil, then (how will you treat him)?’ The grave says, ‘If this is the case I become a garden for him.’ Then his body becomes illuminated and his spirit ascends towards the Divine Court.’ (Musnad Abi Ya’la, vol. 6, p. 67, Hadith 6835) 

It was said on another occasion: ‘When those who accompanied the (funeral of) the deceased return then the deceased sits up and hears the sound of their feet. And no one speaks to him before the grave.  The grave says, ‘O man, did you not hear about my condition? Were you not warned about my narrowness, foul smell and insects? If this was the case then what did you prepare?’ (Sharh-us-Sudoor, p. 114)