Explanation of the causes of the punishment of the grave, and that it is not prescribed to place a palm frond on graves under the claim of following the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
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The Shaykh :Sunan Ibn Majah 347Sahih (Darussalam) Meaning, he does not care; he urinates, then stands up, covers his private parts, and walks, and urine from others hits him, and he does not care. Do you know what talebearing is? Who knows what talebearing is? Please.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Spreading corruption among people with what? With words. Okay, spreading corruption among people by conveying some people's words about others. This is taken from the hadith of the talebearer. If he attributes it to someone else, a person comes to another and says, "Oh so-and-so, what did so-and-so say about you? He backbites you, he disparages you." It is well known that the second person, to whom this speech was conveyed, will corrupt the affection between him and this person. And this talebearing is among the major sins. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) — raise your voice a bit, then stand up — meaning, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a fresh palm frond and split it in two, then placed one on each grave... His custom was to place something of the palm fronds on graves. They said, "Why did you do this?" He said,Sahih al-Bukhari 6052 When the punishment of the grave was revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding these two graves, for this great benefit, to warn people of that. Beware, my brother, of not purifying yourself from urine, for if you do so, you will be punished in your grave. Beware of talebearing, for if you do so, you will be punished in your grave. Did you hear? Okay, why did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stick one on each grave?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : No, why did he stick it? Why did he stick a palm frond?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Until when?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done. If the sleep has gone, may Allah will it, rest. Okay, perhaps it will lighten the punishment for them until they dry out.
It is amazing that some ignorant people, when a dead person is buried, take a tree branch or a palm frond and place it on the grave. What do you say about this action?
We say this action is a religious innovation: because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do it for every person who was buried; he did not do it for every one who was buried.
Second: this action is a bad opinion of the deceased, because this is not placed except on one who is being punished. So if you place the palm frond or the tree or a tree branch on this grave, it is as if you are saying with your state of affairs that this man is being punished. And there is no doubt that this is a disparagement of the deceased. And the amazing thing is that the one who places this branch is the closest person to him. If you said to the closest person to him, "Oh so-and-so, you did this because your father is being punished," his face would turn red with anger at you. Then he would say, "You have now admitted with your state of affairs that your father is being punished in his grave, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do this except when he was informed that they were being punished."
One of them was heedless about preventing urine from getting on his clothes
أما أحدهما فكان لا يستنزه من البولAnd as for the other, he used to walk about with talebearing.
وأما الثاني فكان يمشي بالنميمةThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : Spreading corruption among people with what? With words. Okay, spreading corruption among people by conveying some people's words about others. This is taken from the hadith of the talebearer. If he attributes it to someone else, a person comes to another and says, "Oh so-and-so, what did so-and-so say about you? He backbites you, he disparages you." It is well known that the second person, to whom this speech was conveyed, will corrupt the affection between him and this person. And this talebearing is among the major sins. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) — raise your voice a bit, then stand up — meaning, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a fresh palm frond and split it in two, then placed one on each grave... His custom was to place something of the palm fronds on graves. They said, "Why did you do this?" He said,
It is hoped that their punishment may be abated till those two pieces of the leaf get dried.
لعله يخفف عنهما ما لم ييبساThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : No, why did he stick it? Why did he stick a palm frond?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Until when?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done. If the sleep has gone, may Allah will it, rest. Okay, perhaps it will lighten the punishment for them until they dry out.
It is amazing that some ignorant people, when a dead person is buried, take a tree branch or a palm frond and place it on the grave. What do you say about this action?
We say this action is a religious innovation: because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do it for every person who was buried; he did not do it for every one who was buried.
Second: this action is a bad opinion of the deceased, because this is not placed except on one who is being punished. So if you place the palm frond or the tree or a tree branch on this grave, it is as if you are saying with your state of affairs that this man is being punished. And there is no doubt that this is a disparagement of the deceased. And the amazing thing is that the one who places this branch is the closest person to him. If you said to the closest person to him, "Oh so-and-so, you did this because your father is being punished," his face would turn red with anger at you. Then he would say, "You have now admitted with your state of affairs that your father is being punished in his grave, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do this except when he was informed that they were being punished."