Praying in a mosque built on graves
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from Yemen says: Some of the elderly in our village testified that the mosque in the village was built on graves, and that they leveled the graves with the floor of the mosque without digging them up. Some scholars issued a ruling that it is permissible to pray in this mosque, and they cited a statement by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah regarding this. He says: But the issue remains problematic.
Answer:
What is the statement of Shaykh al-Islam? He did not mention it. Yes, it must be mentioned. Also, we have no involvement with the mosques in Yemen; they should consult their own scholars. This person may be mistaken. We do not know. The matter requires verification. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from Yemen says: Some of the elderly in our village testified that the mosque in the village was built on graves, and that they leveled the graves with the floor of the mosque without digging them up. Some scholars issued a ruling that it is permissible to pray in this mosque, and they cited a statement by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah regarding this. He says: But the issue remains problematic.
Answer:
What is the statement of Shaykh al-Islam? He did not mention it. Yes, it must be mentioned. Also, we have no involvement with the mosques in Yemen; they should consult their own scholars. This person may be mistaken. We do not know. The matter requires verification. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-03-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (57:22)
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