The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The deceased hears the tapping of their sandals when they turn away from him," meaning as they depart.
قال رسول الله ﷺ: إن الميت يسمع خفق نعالهم إذا ولوا عنه يعني مدبرين.
Bazzar narrated it in Kashf Astar (873), from Muhammad bin Abdullah Mukharrami, who said, Waki bin Jarra told us, Sufyan, meaning Thawri, told us, from Suddi, from his father, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it.Its chain is hasan, because of Suddi, who is Ismail bin Abdul-Rahman bin Abu Karima, Kufi, called Awar the elder, there is disagreement about him. Juzjani called him a liar (I think because of his Shiism), while Imam Ahmad and Ajli affirmed his reliability. Nasai said, "Salih." Ibn Adi said, "He has hadiths which he relates from several teachers, and in my view his hadith is sound, he is truthful, there is no harm in him." Muslim included him in his collection. The conclusion is that he is "truthful but makes mistakes, and was accused of Shiism." Haythami also graded it hasan in Majma (3/54), and I hope that he did not err in this particular hadith, given its corroborating witnesses.Something of similar meaning has been related from Ibn Abbas as a marfu report, "When the deceased is buried, he hears the flapping of their sandals as they turn away departing." Tabarani narrated it in Kabir (11/87), from Abu Zinbaa Rawh bin Faraj, who said, Yahya bin Sulayman Jafi told us, Muhammad bin Fudayl told us, Muslim Dabbi told us, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. Haythami said in Majma (3/54), "Its narrators are reliable." I say, this is an error on his part, for Muslim Dabbi, who is Ibn Kaysan, is daif by unanimous agreement of the scholars.Likewise, what has been reported from Abu Saeed, that the Prophet ﷺ said, "Indeed the deceased recognizes whoever carries him, whoever washes him, and whoever lowers him into his grave," is not sound. Ahmad narrated it (10997), from Abu Amir, who said, Abdul-Malik bin Hasan Harithi told us, Saeed bin Amr bin Sulaym told us, saying, I heard a man from among us, Abdul-Malik said, I have forgotten his name, but his name was Muawiya or Ibn Muawiya, relating from Abu Saeed Khudri that the Prophet ﷺ said, and he related it.Ibn Umar, who was present in the gathering, then asked, "From whom did you hear this?" He said, "From Abu Saeed." So Ibn Umar went to Abu Saeed and said, "Abu Saeed, from whom did you hear this?" He said, "From the Prophet ﷺ."Its chain is daif, because the narrator from Abu Saeed is unidentified, and even if he is Muawiya or Ibn Muawiya, it is not known who this person actually is. Haythami said in Majma (203), "In it is a man for whom I have found no biography."