A tape has circulated claiming that companies dug and installed recorders, and voices of the tormented were heard underground. Is this true?

Question:
A tape has circulated and spread among the people, stating that someone from among the disbelievers in Russian companies dug and then placed some recorders, and they heard the voices and screams of the tormented underground. They played this tape for the people present. Is this true? Is this part of the people’s knowledge of the punishment of the grave? What is our position regarding this tape and its like?

Answer:
First, this is a report about the unseen, and it is a transmission from the disbelievers. We do not believe the disbelievers in their transmissions. Second, the punishment of the grave does not require digging with excavators. The grave is near, and it is sometimes heard, sometimes without an excavator. It is heard; Allah makes it heard to whom He wills. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) heard it, and it does not require excavators and depth.
Third, the excavators cannot reach a prisoner in the seventh earth. Who said this? Do Russian excavators claim to reach, penetrate the seven layers, and reach a prisoner? This is a lie and a fabrication. Fourth, these voices are not certain to be the voices of the people in the graves. They may be the voices of jinn or Shaytan.
Or it may be a dramatization, where they gather people to scream and record this, and say that this is from the punishment of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection). This is a statement that is not believed. What has come in the Book and the Sunnah is sufficient for us; we are not in doubt. What has come in the Book and the Sunnah is sufficient for us. Yes.