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[2149] 22 - (928) It was narrated from Ayyûb that 'Abdullâh bin Abî Mulaikah said: "I was sitting beside Ibn 'Umar, and we were waiting for the funeral of Umm Abân bint 'Uthmân. 'Amr bin 'Uthmân was also present. Ibn 'Abbâs came, led by a guide, who told him where Ibn 'Umar was. He came and sat beside me, so I was between them, and we heard a voice from inside the house. Ibn 'Umar said - as if hinting to 'Amr to get up and tell them not to do that - 'I heard the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ say: "The deceased is tormented because of the crying of his family." He said: And 'Abdullâh understood it as general in meaning." (927) Ibn 'Abbâs said: "We were with the Commander of the Believers 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭâb until we came to Al-Baidâ', where we found a man sitting in the shade of a tree. He said to me: 'Go and find out for me who that man is.' I went and found that it was Suhaib. I came back to him and said: 'You told me to find out for you who that man is; it is Ṣuhaib.' He said: 'Tell him to join us.' I said: 'He has his family with him.' He said: 'Even if he has his family with him' - and perhaps Ayyūb said: Tell him to join us. - When we came to Al-Madīnah, it was not long before the Commander of the Believers was attacked. Ṣuhaib came, saying: 'O my brother, O my friend!' 'Umar said: 'Do you not know,' or 'have you not heard' - Ayyūb said: 'You do not know,' or 'you have not heard' - 'that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: The deceased is tormented because of some of his family's crying.'" He said: 'Abdullāh understood it as general in meaning, but 'Umar said: "some of it." (929) I got up and entered upon 'Aīshah, and I told her what Ibn 'Umar had said. She said: "No, by Allāh, the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ did not say: 'The deceased is tormented because of the crying of anyone.' Rather he said: 'Allāh increases the torment of the disbeliever because of his family's crying. And indeed Allāh makes (whom He wills) laugh, and makes (whom He wills) weep. "And no bearer of burdens shall bear another's burden...."[1] Ayyūb said: "Ibn Abī Mulaikah said: 'Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad told me: "When 'Aīshah heard what 'Umar and Ibn 'Umar had said, she said: 'You are narrating to me from two who are not liars and are not to be suspected of being liars, but one may mishear.'"