You mentioned in one of your writings the hadith: (The Prophets - may the prayers of Allah be upon them - are alive in their graves and they pray), I hope you will clarify that?

The questioner: His EminenceThe Shaykh- May Allah preserve you - , you mentioned in one of your writings the hadith: that the Prophets pray in their graves, I hope you will clarify that, and may Allah reward you with good?

The Shaykh: This hadith is among the reports of the unseen, in which it is not permissible for a Muslim to exercise his intellect, rather it is obligatory for him to submit to it with submission. And although there is disagreement among some scholars of hadith regarding its authentication and weakening; the stronger position in my view is that it is authentic, and it is mentioned in "Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah," and it has been traced to its sources with scientific rigor. But if some people doubt the authenticity of this hadith, there is a hadith about whose authenticity there is no doubt; because Imam Muslim included it in his "Sahih" from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . So the prayer of the Prophets in their graves is a correct belief that a Muslim must believe in. But one should not expand in attempting to determine the nature of this prayer; so he should not say, for example: How does Musa pray in his grave, and the grave does not allow for Musa to stand in the grave? Because we say: the realm of the unseen is not measured by the realm of the witnessed, the realm of the barzakh is not measured by the realm of the Hereafter; for each has its own natures and characteristics. So if the truthful, verified one informed us that he saw Musa (peace be upon him) standing and praying in his grave, we believe him and have faith in it, and we entrust the knowledge of the reality of this prayer to Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). And on this scale, his saying (peace be upon him): , so this life is not the material life; such that if we address them, they respond to us and hear our words as they used to hear the words of people in this world when they were alive; we do not expand in such details; because - as I said earlier - the realm of the unseen is not measured by the realm of the witnessed, the realm of matter.
Yes.