Abu Muhkam Al-Jasaree, who was a wise man, once gathered with his brothers, when he recited this verse:

قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا مَن بَعَثَنَا مِن مَّرْقَدِنَا

“And the Trumpet will be blown (i.e. the second blowing) and behold! From the graves they will come out quickly to their Lord. They will say: Woe to us! Who has raised us up from our place of sleep.” [Yaseen, 36:51-52]

He cried and then said, “…For the entire duration in which they remained in the Barzakh, they were in pain and they were being punished in their graves. They only said, ‘Woe to us,’ because they were heading to a greater catastrophe for them. That is why they played down the punishment in the grave, calling it ‘sleep.’

Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaayah Wan-Nihaayah