Exhuming graves found in a mosque during its expansion
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Question:
He says: Is it permissible to exhume graves from a mosque that I want to expand? I found graves in it when rebuilding, even though it was a mosque where people prayed without knowing that there were graves in it for a long time?
Answer:
The graves are to be removed and buried in the cemeteries; they are to be moved from their location to… and the mosque is to be cleaned of them. Yes.
He says: Is it permissible to exhume graves from a mosque that I want to expand? I found graves in it when rebuilding, even though it was a mosque where people prayed without knowing that there were graves in it for a long time?
Answer:
The graves are to be removed and buried in the cemeteries; they are to be moved from their location to… and the mosque is to be cleaned of them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-107-وصية النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:04:12)
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