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The three that follow to the grave by al-Hāfiz ibn Rajab al-Hanbalī being a translation of his Sharh hadith yatba’u al-mayyit thalath

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The First Companion – The Family

A person’s family will not benefit the deceased after one’s death, except for a family member that asks forgiveness for deceased and supplicates for him, but they might not do so in reality.

For sometimes someone who is not related to the dead person might be more beneficial for him than one’s own family, as some of the righteous have said, “and who is like the righteous companion? While your family is busy dividing your inheritance, he sits alone in his sadness, supplicating for you while you are under the earth.”

Al-Hasan al-Basr said, “From the people who are least interested in a person of knowledge (and benefiting from him) are his neighbours.

And the person in the worst state is the dead person whose family cries over him, but they do not pay his debts.” What he meant by this is that they perform what harms him, and they leave what benefits him. For a dead person is punished by the crying of his family, if it involves wailing or screaming, or complaining about the decree of Allah.

So the family is one of the three companions of the dead person, they follow him to the door of the King (Allah), which is the grave, and then they leave him.

The Second Companion – The Wealth

As for the second companion of a dead person, it is one’s wealth. It returns first and does not enter the grave. The saying of the Prophet, “his wealth returns” means that it will not accomany one in the grave, nor enter it with him.

Others explained “his wealth returns”  to mean a person’s slaves that he owns, for they come with his family to the grave and then they leave with them. So a person will not benefit at all from one’s wealth except for that which he spent in a good cause, for he will find it later on and it will be included amongst the deeds that will accompany him in his grave.

As for the wealth that a person leaves for his heirs, then in reality it does not stay with him, and he was only temporarily holding that wealth for his heirs.

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