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1006. 'Abdullāh bin Abī Bakr – and he is Ibn Muḥammad bin 'Amr bin Ḥazm – narrated from his father, that 'Amrah informed him that she heard 'Āishah, while it was being mentioned to her that Ibn 'Umar had said that the deceased would be punished for the crying of the living (over him). So 'Āishah said: 'May Allāh forgive Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān. He has not lied, but he has either forgotten or he is mistaken in the understanding. Rather, the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ passed by a Jewish woman who was being cried over, so he said: 'They are crying over her and she is being punished in her grave.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth is (Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ.)
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'Āishah made it clear that the Jewish woman was being punished in the grave due to her disbelief and not due to crying and lamenting over her death by her relatives.
