We would have heard this 100′s of times and people are fed up with this idea that Holy prophet asws had said this : "Crying for Dead causes Punishment to the Dead" And so if someone cries for dead, the dead is punished;and this propaganda increases in moharram so let us see what ayesha had to offer in this regard we find in Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal : Abu bakar says that when rafi’I bin khadeej died, we heard ibn umar that dead is punished when his neighbors cry for him. I came to umra and told him so he replied that Ayesha said that holy prophet asws said this about a jew lady that these people are crying and she is being punished; then Ayesha recited the verse that none will bear the weight of others [Musnad ahmad, urdu, vol 11, page 31, narration 24616] Sheikh hamza says isnaad is sahih [Musnad ahmad, takhreej of ahmad shakir and hamza ahmad, vol 17, page -234] We further find Ibn umar said that Holy Prophet asws s