An audio clip was released in which its owner claims that the sounds are of people being punished in their graves. What is the truth of that?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Can a person hear the voices of the dead while they are being punished? A tape was released containing the sounds of people being punished underground. What is the truth of that claim?

Answer:
How do you know that these are the voices of people being punished? They are fabricated, and Allah knows best, or they are artificial sounds. It is not permissible to believe this matter. Yes, some of the dead are punished in their graves, and their voice may be heard. But they, they dug with excavators and reached a certain area of the earth and heard what those who report this say. Those who report this are disbelievers, and they are the Russians. One does not rely on their words, nor is their report accepted. We believe in the punishment of the grave, and we believe that something of it may be heard or seen by whom Allah wills to reveal this, by way of admonition. We believe in this. But to say that the Russians dug because they heard the dead and reached the seventh prison in the earth, that is lying and slander. Yes.