My religion is Islam.” A door is then opened for him in his grave, and he says—or is told—“Look at your resting place.” He then sees the grave as though it had been merely a place of sleep.

But when he is an enemy of Allah, death descends upon him and he beholds what he beholds; he never wishes for his soul to depart, and Allah hates to meet him. When he sits—or is made to sit—in his grave, he is asked, “Who is your Lord?” He replies, “I do not know!” He is then told, “May you never know.” A door to Hell is opened for him, and he is struck a blow heard by every creature except humankind and the jinn. He is then told, “Sleep as one who has been bitten sleeps.” I said to Abu Hurayrah, “Who is the one who has been bitten?” He replied, “The one whom beasts and snakes bite.” Then his grave is constricted around him.”

Al-Bazzār transmitted it in his Musnad (p. 92, al-Zawāʾid): Saʿīd ibn Baḥr al-Qarāṭīsī narrated to us; al-Walīd ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Kaysān narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah—I believe that he attributed it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.

Al-Bazzār said: “We know of no one who narrated it from Yazīd in this manner except al-Walīd.” I say: He was truthful but made mistakes, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Those above him in the chain are narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections. Al-Haythamī said thereafter: “Part of it is found in the Ṣaḥīḥ, and its narrators are trustworthy, except for al-Bazzār’s shaykh, whom I do not know.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said thereafter: “I say: He has been deemed trustworthy, and he was not alone in narrating it.” I say: He has an entry in the History of Baghdad (9/93), where it states: “He was trustworthy. He died in the year 253 AH.”