The Ruling on Graves Adjacent to the Mosque

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. From Uganda, a message sent by the listener 'Ammar Muhammad from the Mutasa Quranic School. He asks a number of questions, and in one of them he says to us: The Prophet's Mosque (peace and blessings be upon him), which is the Great Mosque, is very spacious, but there are two graves in front of it, on the qiblah side, surrounded by an iron fence around them. The drawing of the mosque and the two graves is like this, Shaykh Salih. If you would be so kind as to give the ruling, or explain the ruling, on praying in this mosque. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If the two graves are completely separate from the mosque, and there is a road or open space between them that is separate from the mosque's wall, having their own independent wall, while the mosque's wall is independent, and there is a barrier of road or open space between them, then there is nothing wrong with it because of the separation of the graves from the mosque. The prohibited thing is for the graves to be inside the mosque or connected to it. But if they are separate from it, then this has no effect, and praise be to Allah. And whatever is possible to distance the mosque from the graves is better, in order to remove doubt, suspicion, and confusion for the people. Whatever is possible to distance the mosques from the graves, that is more complete and better. Yes.