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Hadrat Sayyiduna Abdullah ibn ‘Umar – may Allah be pleased with them – narrates:

 

Once, I was on a journey and I passed by an old cemetery which existed from the time of the days of ignorance. I saw a person appear from the grave and there was a rope of Fire around his neck. I also had a container of water with me and when he saw me, he said, “O Abdullah! Please give me some water.”

 

I then said to myself that this person had called me by my name. Perhaps he knows who I am or he is just behaving as normal Arabs do when they call someone. In other words, even if they do not know the person, they will still call him “Abdullah” (Servant of Allah).

 

Suddenly, another person appeared from the grave and said to me, “O Abdullah! Never ever give this person water because he is a Kaafir.” He then pushed the first person back into the grave.

 

I then spent the night in the house of an old lady. The house was near the cemetery. Near this house there was another grave and from this grave I heard a person saying, “What is urine, what is water”. He said this many times.

 

When I asked the old lady about this, she explained, “This is the grave of my husband. He is receiving the punishment for two things. When he urinated, he did not protect himself against the urine droplets. I used to also tell him, ‘it is very unfortunate that even when a camel urinates, it protects its body unlike you. You seem to have no care about this at all.’ When my husband heard my words, he did not pay attention to them. He then died and every day, I am able to hear these words coming from his grave. I then asked about the water or the water bottle and she replied, ‘One day, a thirsty person approached him and asked for some water and he said to the person that he should drink from a certain water bottle. The person ran towards this bottle and when he picked it up, he noticed that there was no water in this bottle. Because of his immense thirst, he fell to the ground and because of this he also died. My husband then died and every day, I hear the same words about water coming from his grave.’”

 

Hadrat Sayyiduna Abdullah ibn ‘Umar – may Allah be pleased with them – narrates that he later approached the Holy Prophet – may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – and presented the entire incident to him. After listening to the story, the Holy Prophet – may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – also prohibited people from travelling alone. (Uyunul Hikaayah)