transmitted it as a mursal report, saying:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “This righteous servant for whom the Throne trembled, for whom the gates of heaven were opened, and whom seventy thousand angels attended—angels who had never before descended to the earth—was indeed subjected to a single squeeze, after which relief was granted to him.”

He meant Saʿd (1).

It was transmitted by Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, from Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd, from him.

Abū Maʿshar reported, through Saʿīd al-Maqburī, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Had anyone been spared the constriction of the grave, Saʿd would have been spared; yet he was squeezed once, and his ribs shifted because of residual urine.” (2) This chain is broken.

It is also narrated that the Prophet ﷺ carried Saʿd’s bier for a few steps, but the report is not sound.

Al-Wāqidī said: Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad related to me, from Rubayḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from his grandfather Abū Saʿīd, who said, “I was among those who dug Saʿd’s grave in al-Baqīʿ, and each time we dug, the scent of musk would waft over us.”

Rubayḥ added: Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir told me, on the authority of a man, who said, “Someone took a handful of earth from Saʿd’s grave and left with it; when he later looked at it, it had turned into pure musk.” (3)

A similar report was transmitted by Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from Muḥammad ibn Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasanah.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah also related—from his father, from his grandfather—from ʿĀʾishah, who said, “There was never …”