Building a mosque in a place containing a grave after digging it up
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: We built a mosque in our village and found no place except one that contained a grave, so we dug up the grave and then built the mosque. What? We built a mosque in our village and found no place except one that contained a grave, so we dug up the grave and then built a mosque in this place. Is what we did valid?
Answer:
Do not dig up graves except with a fatwa from the competent authority, such as the Department of Ifta. The head of the Ifta department or the judge in the town writes a report about this grave or these graves, writes a report about them, and sends it to the Ifta department to look into it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: We built a mosque in our village and found no place except one that contained a grave, so we dug up the grave and then built the mosque. What? We built a mosque in our village and found no place except one that contained a grave, so we dug up the grave and then built a mosque in this place. Is what we did valid?
Answer:
Do not dig up graves except with a fatwa from the competent authority, such as the Department of Ifta. The head of the Ifta department or the judge in the town writes a report about this grave or these graves, writes a report about them, and sends it to the Ifta department to look into it. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب اتخاذ متعبدات الكفار ومواضع القبور إذا نبشت مساجد — islamhouse.com (1:09:48)
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