Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: At-Takaathur, Ayah 2
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(Until ye come to the graves) this is because the Banu Sahm and Banu 'Abd Manaf were bragging to each other about which tribe is larger as concerns the number of its population, and found out that the Banu 'Abd Manaf were more numerous. The Banu Sahm said at that point: �We were rooted out by injustice in the pagan era; go and count the living and the dead of our people and the living and the dead of your people�. When they did so they found out that the Banu Sahm were more numerous. Therefore the above verses were revealed about them: bragging about status and lineage distracted you to the extent that you visited the graveyards to count the dead; it is also said that this means: increase in wealth and children distracts you until you die and be put in the graves.
Related Hadiths
“Visit the graves, for they will remind you of the Hereafter.”
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: I forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them, for in visiting them there is a reminder (of death).
When the dead body. is placed in the grave, he listens to the sound of the shoes (as his friends and relatives return after burying him).
"do not sit on graves."
"When you see a funeral, stand up until it has passed you, or (the body) is placed (in the grave)."
It was narrated from Ibn Mas’ud that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “I used to forbid you to visit the graves, but now visit them, for they will draw your attention away from this world and remind y...
“Do not bury your dead at night unless you are forced to.”
Whenever you see a funeral procession, stand up for that until it moves away or is lowered on the ground.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
until you visit the graves either in that you have died and then been buried in them or it means to the extent that you actually count the dead as a something to rival one another by.