The ruling on burying the dead around the grave of a righteous man
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible to bury the dead around the grave of a righteous man?
Answer:
Burying in a good place may seem easy. But burial takes place in the Muslim cemeteries; a Muslim is buried with Muslims in Muslim cemeteries, and a disbeliever is buried in the cemeteries of disbelievers. No one has anything except his righteous deeds. If you bury him next to a righteous man, and he is righteous, that will not benefit him. Even if the righteous man is buried next to an unrighteous man in the same grave, that will not benefit him. One will be in a pit of the pits of the Fire, and the other in a garden of the gardens of Paradise, and some will be next to each other. Nothing benefits a person except his righteous deeds.
Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible to bury the dead around the grave of a righteous man?
Answer:
Burying in a good place may seem easy. But burial takes place in the Muslim cemeteries; a Muslim is buried with Muslims in Muslim cemeteries, and a disbeliever is buried in the cemeteries of disbelievers. No one has anything except his righteous deeds. If you bury him next to a righteous man, and he is righteous, that will not benefit him. Even if the righteous man is buried next to an unrighteous man in the same grave, that will not benefit him. One will be in a pit of the pits of the Fire, and the other in a garden of the gardens of Paradise, and some will be next to each other. Nothing benefits a person except his righteous deeds.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [25] — alfawzan.live (52:41)
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