The Tomb of Sayyid al-Badawi and the Stone Engraved with Fingers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: We have a cemetery in our city located inside a mosque, called the Tomb of Sayyid al-Badawi. In the cemetery itself, there is a stone engraved with five fingers, and everyone claims that these are the fingers of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
Answer:
What Allah willed, the Messenger went to Egypt and placed his fingers? This is all superstition. Sayyid al-Badawi, they say, is in Tanta, and at his grave there are gatherings, sacrifices, and evils; people gather at the grave of Sayyid al-Badawi. Who is Sayyid al-Badawi? He was from the people of Makkah, he left and went to Egypt. They say he entered the mosque on Friday before the prayer and urinated in the mosque, then left without praying the Friday prayer. They said no calamity came to him and nothing happened to him, which is proof that he is a close friend of Allah, so they exaggerated about him, may Allah protect us from that. Yes, this is a summary of the story of al-Badawi. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: We have a cemetery in our city located inside a mosque, called the Tomb of Sayyid al-Badawi. In the cemetery itself, there is a stone engraved with five fingers, and everyone claims that these are the fingers of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
Answer:
What Allah willed, the Messenger went to Egypt and placed his fingers? This is all superstition. Sayyid al-Badawi, they say, is in Tanta, and at his grave there are gatherings, sacrifices, and evils; people gather at the grave of Sayyid al-Badawi. Who is Sayyid al-Badawi? He was from the people of Makkah, he left and went to Egypt. They say he entered the mosque on Friday before the prayer and urinated in the mosque, then left without praying the Friday prayer. They said no calamity came to him and nothing happened to him, which is proof that he is a close friend of Allah, so they exaggerated about him, may Allah protect us from that. Yes, this is a summary of the story of al-Badawi. Yes.
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شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تابع فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... - 2 — islamhouse.com (1:08:06)
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