Designating specific mosques for funeral prayers
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Shaykh, what is the ruling on designating specific mosques for funeral prayers to the exclusion of other mosques?
Answer:
People have made things difficult for themselves, so they gather the dead in one mosque, causing congestion and danger from pickpockets. The religion is easy, praise be to Allah, and every mosque is suitable. In fact, it is not obligatory for the funeral prayer to be performed in a mosque; one may pray over the deceased in a desert or in a private prayer area outside the mosque. The matter is broad in this regard. As for what is happening now, where mosques are designated for funerals, people crowd together, and various issues arise, and they come from far away, this is an unnecessary burden. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Shaykh, what is the ruling on designating specific mosques for funeral prayers to the exclusion of other mosques?
Answer:
People have made things difficult for themselves, so they gather the dead in one mosque, causing congestion and danger from pickpockets. The religion is easy, praise be to Allah, and every mosque is suitable. In fact, it is not obligatory for the funeral prayer to be performed in a mosque; one may pray over the deceased in a desert or in a private prayer area outside the mosque. The matter is broad in this regard. As for what is happening now, where mosques are designated for funerals, people crowd together, and various issues arise, and they come from far away, this is an unnecessary burden. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/060 — archive.org (7:25)
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