Greeting the people of the cemetery from a distance
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on greeting the deceased while they are in the cemetery, if the cemetery is far away and I do not enter it?
Answer:
If you pass by it, you greet the deceased. But if you are far from the cemetery, there is no Sunnah report that you should greet them while you are far away. You greet them when you pass by it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on greeting the deceased while they are in the cemetery, if the cemetery is far away and I do not enter it?
Answer:
If you pass by it, you greet the deceased. But if you are far from the cemetery, there is no Sunnah report that you should greet them while you are far away. You greet them when you pass by it.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني في ذكر حقيقة مرض القلب — islamhouse.com (1:13:02)
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