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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Celebrating the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Birth and Death

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Question:
Your Eminence, this questioner says: Is it true that the birth of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is not known, and that there is disagreement regarding his death (peace and blessings be upon him), and that it is logical to celebrate the birth and not the death, if celebrating is permissible?

Answer:
Neither is to be celebrated, neither the birth nor the death. Both are an invented religious innovation (bid'ah)
for which Allah has sent down no authorityمَّا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍ
[Yusuf 12:40]
. The Mawlid celebrations only came with the Fatimid state when it spread over the lands of Egypt and the Maghreb; the Mawlid came with them, and it is inherited from the Christians. The Muslims did not know of these Mawlid celebrations. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [36\ 3436] حكم الاحتفال بمولد النبي ووفاته صلى الله عليه وسلم | الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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