Prayer continues to live even after death. How many times have you let slip a chance to perform an extra prayer? Perhaps you woke ten minutes before Fajr yet chose to sleep rather than rise for a brief Tahajjud. Perhaps you had a few spare minutes before leaving for work but decided the two rakʿahs of Duha were not worth the effort. Perhaps you routinely forgo the Sunnah after the obligatory prayers even when there was no real urgency to rush away. In this worldly life, extra prayer often falls to the bottom of our list of priorities: it will be done only when nothing else occupies us. Yet in the intermediate realm after death — the Barzakh — it becomes the most precious provision one could have. If the people in the grave could speak, what would they tell us? The answer is not vague; tradition gives us a clear and specific report. Once the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, passed by a grave and aske