Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2308

Translation

When 'Uthman would stop at a grave he would cry until his beard was soaked (in tears). It was said to him: 'The Paradise and the Fire were mentioned and you did not cry, yet you cry because of this?' So he said: 'Indeed the Messenger of Allah said: "Indeed the grave is the first stage among the stages of the Hereafter. So if one is saved from it, then what comes after it is easier than it. And if one is not saved from it, then what comes after it is worse than it." And the Messenger of Allah said: "I have not seen any sight except that the grave is more horrible than it."

Notes

• قَالَ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ هِشَامِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث هشام بن يوسف

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2494
• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  زاد رزين فيه مما لم أره في شيء من نسخ الترمذي

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2494
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسن غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث هشام بن يوسف

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2494

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 132وَعَن عُثْمَان رَضِي الله عَنهُ أَنه إِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ بَكَى حَتَّى يَبُلَّ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ تُذْكَرُ الْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ فَلَا تَبْكِي وَتَبْكِي مِنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَ
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 4267كَانَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ إِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ يَبْكِي حَتَّى يَبُلَّ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ تَذْكُرُ الْجَنَّةَ وَالنَّارَ وَلاَ تَبْكِي وَتَبْكِي مِنْ هَذَا قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ الْقَبْرَ أَوَّلُ مَنَازِلِ ا

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 454Musnad al-Bazzar 475al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1373al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7942

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

   One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرة
   فقال
2. 2
   Hāniʾ, freedman of ʿUthmān

   truthful (ṣadūq)
   هَانِئًا مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَصدوق
   سمع
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥīr

   Ibn Maʿīn considered him trustworthy (thiqah), while the statements of Ibn Ḥibbān about him were inconsistent (iḍṭaraba)d. between 161 and 170 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بَجِيرٍوثقه ابن معين ، واضطرب فيه كلام ابن حبان
   حدثني
4. 4
   Hishām b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 197 AH, or 199 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyá b. Maʿīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a well-known ḥāfiẓ, the imam of jarḥ wa-taʿdīl.d. 233 AH.
   يَحْيَى بْنُ مَعِينٍثقة حافظ مشهور ، إمام الجرح والتعديل.
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Hannād

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH
   هَنَّادٌثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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