Among the causes of the punishment of the grave is failing to clean oneself from urine, and what is the ruling on placing roses or a fresh branch on the grave?

The Shaykh : Look, now, in light of what I mentioned, the saying of him (peace and blessings be upon him): If they clean themselves from urine, this is a small matter, a spray of urine that hits the body or the clothes, and many people fall into this, especially those who, I mean, are afflicted with wearing trousers, O Abu 'Abdullah. This is a calamity of the age, because these trousers do not facilitate cleaning oneself from urine; this is the truth. And so, as he also said in another hadith, which is more authentic than the first, narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim in their Sahihs from the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by two graves and said: Here is the point , then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that a date palm branch be brought to him, so he split it into two pieces and placed one piece on each grave. They asked him about this, and he said: And by the way, this is one of the things that you have opened the door to delaying your food because of it — he laughs — I mean, things that people must learn and become aware of. Many people think, and you may hear this belief from some of the special people, that the custom practiced today, especially during the festivals, of placing fresh branches on graves is believed by them to benefit the deceased. Far from it, far from it, nothing benefits the deceased except what he sent forward of righteous deeds or what he left behind of his righteous effects, as the Exalted said: And the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) explained that in his saying: So when the deceased dies, no one can benefit him at all except his righteous deeds, or, as we said, what he left behind of the effects of his righteous deeds, as the verse and the hadith indicate. Otherwise, we could make another exception, and this must remain in our minds: otherwise, a supplication made by a Muslim for a deceased Muslim, and Allah responds to this supplication, and the deceased benefits from it. But this is a matter of the unseen, and it is not permissible for us to rely on it, neither in our lives nor after our deaths, meaning that we hope that when we die, a righteous man will pass by us and supplicate for us, and Allah will forgive us. This is in the realm of the unseen. And so the proverb says: "A bird in the hand is better than ten in the tree." So This fresh, moist branch does not benefit the deceased at all. As for what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did, that is a prophetic miracle and a miracle granted to a righteous person from Allah for him, as came in a narration in Sahih Muslim from the hadith of Jabir, that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) accepted the intercession of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) for the buried one as long as the branch was fresh. So the operative cause of the deceased benefiting from the branch that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) placed on his grave is not the freshness and moisture in the branch, but the operative cause is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated and Allah accepted his supplication on behalf of the deceased, but not until the Day of Resurrection, but only as long as the branch was fresh. So this is the meaning of the hadith, and we benefit from it that the thing that the Muslim does not care about, such as backbiting his Muslim brother in the gathering, or not caring about cleaning oneself from the spray of urine, is among the causes of the punishment of the grave. So we ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to protect us and you from the punishment of the grave. And if you have a second question, please, before the food gets cold.

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