and His Messenger.” They will say, “We knew that this was what you used to say.” Then his grave will be expanded for him to seventy cubits by seventy cubits, and it will be illuminated for him. Then he will be told, “Sleep.” He will say, “May I return to my family and inform them?” They will say, “Sleep like a bridegroom, whom none awakens except the most beloved of his family,” until Allah raises him from that resting place.

But if he is a hypocrite, he will say, “I heard the people saying something, so I said the same. I do not know.” They will say, “We knew that this was what you used to say.” Then the earth will be commanded, “Close in upon him,” and it will close in upon him, crushing his ribs together. He will continue to be punished therein until Allah raises him from that resting place.”

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhi (2/163) and Ibn Abi Asim in al-Sunnah (864—my edition), through the route of Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, from Sa'id ibn Sa'id al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said it. Al-Tirmidhi said, “A good, singular hadith.”

I say: Its chain of transmission is sound. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators. There is some criticism of Ibn Ishaq—their client, al-Amiri al-Qurashi—but it is not detrimental.

1392 — “When any of you completes the prayer in his mosque, let him give his home a share of his prayer, for Allah will place goodness in his home through his prayer.”

It was recorded by Muslim (2/187–188), Ibn Majah (1/415), Ahmad (3/59 and 316), and al-Khatib in al-Tarikh (4/311), through several routes from al-A'mash, from Abu Sufyan, from Jabir—some of them added, “Abu Sa'id narrated to us”—from the Prophet, who said it.

Ibn Lahi'ah corroborated him, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, that Abu Sa'id said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah say it.”