How Can We Reconcile Punishment Of The Grave Hadiths With The Quran?
Those on whom Hujjah is completed, receive their reward and punishment soon after death. In the time of the prophet since the results and declared, so we get such news as you mentioned above. About Pharaoh, it is told in the Quran that he and his followers are receiving punishment in their after-death life. Thus God saved him from the evil of his schemes [136] but the people of the Pharaoh were surrounded by an evil torment [after this:] the fire of Hell before which they are brought day and night [138] and the Day the Hereafter arrives, it will be ordered: “Admit the companions of the Pharaoh into the worst torment.” (40: 45-46) But the ordinary people whose matter does not reach the conclusion of Itmam ul Hujjah, they are made sleep till they rose to life in the Day of Judgement. (Kindly get to know the concept of Itmam ul Hujjah) And [similarly, one day] the trumpet will be sounded; then suddenly they will come out of the graves one after the other and walk towards their Lord! [At that time,] they will say: “Our wretchedness! Who raised us from our graves?” This is the same thing which your Lord had promised you and [see that] the messengers had stated the absolute truth. (36: 50-51)