The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 21, Hadith 119
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When Uthman ibn Maz'un died, he was brought out on his bier and buried. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered a man to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and going over to it rolled up his sleeves.
The narrator Kathir told that al-Muttalib remarked: The one who told me about the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I still seem to see the whiteness of the forearms of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he rolled up his sleeves. He then carried it and placed it at his head saying: I am marking my brother's grave with it, and I shall bury beside him those of my family who die.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 21, Hadith 118 Next Hadith → The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 21, Hadith 120
The narrator Kathir told that al-Muttalib remarked: The one who told me about the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I still seem to see the whiteness of the forearms of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he rolled up his sleeves. He then carried it and placed it at his head saying: I am marking my brother's grave with it, and I shall bury beside him those of my family who die.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 21, Hadith 118 Next Hadith → The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 21, Hadith 120