At the Grave of the Prophet (s.a.w.)
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Dawud ibn Swalih at-Tammar ( r.a. ) said, “One day, Marwan came, and he saw that a man was lying down with his mouth turned close to the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) grave. Then he said to him, ‘Do you know what you are doing?’ When he moved towards him, he saw that it was Abu Ayyub al-Answari. He said, ‘Yes. I have come to the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ), and not to a stone. I have heard it from the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ) not to cry over religion, when its guardian is competent, but shed tears over religion, when its guardian is incompetent.’” In al-Mustadrak asw-Swahihayn , Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah al-Hakim an-Nishaburi ( r.a. ) declared it swahih . Imam Shams ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad adz-Dzahabi ( r.a. ) agreed with him. Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal ( r.a. ) recorded it, with a swahih chain of transmission, in his Musnad .