Who is exempt from the questioning of the grave

Who is exempt from فتنة القبر | (the questioning of the grave)?

ANSWER:

Everyone will be questioned in their grave except for three categories of people:

1.PROPHETS are not questioned in their graves because everyone else will be asked about them, so how could they be asked about themselves?! 

Narrated ’Āi'shah raḍhiyallāhu ’anhā: The Prophet ﷺ said:

((فأما فتنةُ القبرِ فبي تُفتنونَ، وعنِّي تُسألونَ))

“As for the trial of the grave, then you will be trialled concerning me and will be questioned about me.” 

[authenticated by Sh. Albāni in At-Targhīb wa At-Tarhīb (3557) and Sh. Muqbil in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Musnad (1539)] 

Furthermore, if martyrs killed in battle are not questioned in their graves, then how can the Prophets be questioned while the latter are superior? 

2. BATTLE MARTYRS are not questioned in their graves. 

 

It was narrated from Rashid bin Sa'd, that a man among the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 

يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا بَالُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُفْتَنُونَ فِي قُبُورِهِمْ إِلاَّ الشَّهِيدَ قَالَ: ‏((كَفَى بِبَارِقَةِ السُّيُوفِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فِتْنَةً)).‏ 

“O Messenger of Allah, why will the believers be tested in their graves except the martyr?” He said: "The flashing of the swords above his head is trial enough.” [Sunan An-Nasā'ee (2053) - ] 

3.THOSE WHO DIE WHILE GUARDING THE MUSLIM FRONTIERS (Al-Murābiṭūn) will not be questioned in their graves. 

Narrated Salmān: I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying:

((رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ وَلَيْلَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ صِيَامِ شَهْرٍ وَقِيَامِهِ، وَإِنْ مَاتَ جَرَى عَلَيْهِ عَمَلُهُ الَّذِي كَانَ يَعْمَلُهُ، وَأُجْرِيَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقُهُ، وَأَمِنَ الْفَتَّانَ)).‏  

“Keeping watch for a day and a night is better than fasting and standing in prayer for a whole month. If a person dies (while performing this duty), his (meritorious) activity will continue and he will go on receiving his reward for it perpetually and will be saved from the trial of the grave..” [Muslim (1913)]

NOTE: Due to lack of clear evidence, the truthful (Ṣiddīqūn), the infants, and the insane are all not exempt from the questioning of the grave.

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Benefitted from Sheikh Muḥammad Bā Jammāl's explanation of Al-Lāmiyyah

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