عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ بْنِ رِبْعِيٍّ الأَنْصَارِيِّ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مُرَّ عَلَيْهِ بِجِنَازَةٍ فَقَالَ: مُسْتَرِيحٌ، وَمُسْتَرَاحٌ مِنْهُ. قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْمُسْتَرِيحُ وَالْمُسْتَرَاحُ مِنْهُ قَالَ: الْعَبْدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ يَسْتَرِيحُ مِنْ نَصَبِ الدُّنْيَا وَأَذَاهَا إِلَى رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ، وَالْعَبْدُ الْفَاجِرُ يَسْتَرِيحُ مِنْهُ الْعِبَادُ وَالْبِلاَدُ وَالشَّجَرُ وَالدَّوَابُّ.
Hazrat Abu Qatadah bin Rib‘i al-Ansari (ra) narrated that a funeral procession passed before Allah’s Messenger (sa). He said, “One who has found relief or one from whom others have been relieved.” The people asked, “O Allah’s Messenger (sa), what is meant by ‘one who has found relief’ and ‘one from whom others have been relieved’?” He replied, “A believing servant finds relief from the toil and suffering of this world and enters into the mercy of Allah, while, through the death of a wicked servant, people, the land, trees and animals are relieved of him.”
(Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab ar-riqaq, Bab sakarati l-mawt, Hadith 6512)