The Stomach Of The Grave

Bilal bin Sa’ad Radi Allahu Anhu reported, ‘Every day the grave calls out (saying), ‘I am a house of transit, insects, worms and terror, and either a garden from the gardens of Jannat or an abyss from the abysses of Jahannam.’ When a believing person is placed in his grave, the grave talks to him from beneath him and she says to him, ‘By Allah!  I even loved you when you walked on my back and now you have entered my stomach. Now that you have been given in my care, observe how well I will treat you.’ Thereafter, the grave expands for him, to the distance of his vision.  When an unbeliever is placed in the grave, she says, ‘By Allah!  I hated you even when you walked on my back and now that you have been given in my control, observe how I will deal with you.’ The grave then presses him so intensely that his ribs are totally crushed.’

Ref: Sharh us Sudoor Bi Sharh Haal al-Mawta Wal Quboor