Praying the Friday prayer as the midday prayer at home due to the presence of graves in the mosques
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A relative of mine traveled outside this country and was on an island. He looked in three congregational mosques to pray the Friday prayer, but he found graves in each of them. So he prayed the Friday prayer at home, praying it as the midday prayer. Is what he did correct?
The Shaykh:
If the graves are inside the mosques, yes, then you are correct. Do not pray in a mosque built over a grave. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade praying at graves and forbade making graves into mosques. The prohibition implies invalidity. So you are correct in this; pray the midday prayer. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
As for if the grave is separate, outside the mosque, and separate from the mosque, it has no effect on the prayer. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A relative of mine traveled outside this country and was on an island. He looked in three congregational mosques to pray the Friday prayer, but he found graves in each of them. So he prayed the Friday prayer at home, praying it as the midday prayer. Is what he did correct?
The Shaykh:
If the graves are inside the mosques, yes, then you are correct. Do not pray in a mosque built over a grave. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade praying at graves and forbade making graves into mosques. The prohibition implies invalidity. So you are correct in this; pray the midday prayer. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
As for if the grave is separate, outside the mosque, and separate from the mosque, it has no effect on the prayer. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن حيله ومكايده : الكلام الباطل والآراء المتهافتة والخيالات — islamhouse.com (1:12:33)
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