What accompanies a person to the grave

Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy speaks of death as a passage on which a person takes only his deeds into the grave: his goods stay behind and his family walks him to the grave's edge. He gives narrations and stories about burial and the grave and presents them as his own account; some of them are not sourced in the recording ¹.

He says the dead person's goods stay behind him, his family accompanies him to the grave, and only his deeds go into the grave with him ¹. He says the shroud is the only worldly thing a person takes with him, and that he enters the grave as he came out of his mother's womb, poor and naked ². He tells that Hatim found that the only beloved who goes into the grave with a person is his good deeds, which become his companion in the grave ³.

He says a good person is missed when he is absent and remembered kindly when he dies, and that people should be present for one another ⁴. He tells that Hasan al-Basri heard a group weeping and laughing at a funeral, and said they were mourning travellers for travellers; he likens life to a train with stations, and says each person will get off at his own station (needs_source: the anecdote is not sourced in the recording) ⁵.

The speaker cites a hadith on the reward of one who attends the funeral prayer and walks with the bier, and says the reward is two qirats, each like a mountain (needs_source: the hadith and the figures are not sourced in the recording). He tells that Ibn Umar regretted the qirats he had missed, and checked the matter with Aisha ⁶.

He cites a verse on the creation of man from dust and his return to it, and describes throwing dust on the grave at three points ⁷. He tells the story of the man who denied the Hour, whose companion reminded him that he was created from dust and then formed; he says it is from the Qur'an, without naming the place ⁸.

He urges hastening the burial of the dead, and says that this is recommended ⁹. He tells that two gravediggers in Medina, one digging a niche and the other a shaft, both made istikhara; the one who came first was chosen, and the Prophet ﷺ was placed in the niche (needs_source: the narration is not sourced in the recording) ¹⁰.

He tells a hadith about a handsome, fragrant figure that comes to the grave of a righteous person to keep him company until the Hour (needs_source: the hadith is not named in the recording) ¹¹. He gives the counterpart narration, in which an ugly figure comes to keep an evil person company (needs_source: the hadith is not named in the recording) ¹².

In one narration he gives, the grave of a believer is widened and his seat in Paradise is shown to him, while the grave of one who did not believe is narrowed; he cites Umar's request to be carried quickly to his grave (needs_source: the narration is not sourced in the recording) ¹³. He cites a hadith on hastening the funeral, and says the wicked would be hurried off if people knew what awaited them ¹⁴.

He describes the story of a traveller who asked a guide to the city and was led to a graveyard, where everyone had come to the city and none had come back ¹⁵. He recites a line of verse about sleeping in the grave and the day of reckoning, without naming its author in the recording (needs_source: the author is not named) ¹⁶.

The speaker criticises people who talk about market prices while standing at a grave, and asks whether anyone has prepared for that day ¹⁷. He says the grave is a box of deeds, and criticises those who give false witness, swear false oaths and wrong others ¹⁸.