And prayers and peace be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows:

The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for what follows: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the book *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim*: "Also, what Muslim narrated in his *Sahih* from Jundub ibn 'Abd Allah al-Bajali, who said:

I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) five days before his death and he said: I stand acquitted before Allah that I took any one of you as friend, for Allah has taken me as His friend, as he took Ibrahim as His friend. Had I taken any one of my Ummah as a friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as a friend. Beware of those who preceded you and used to take the graves of their prophets and righteous men as places of worship, but you must not take graves as mosques; I forbid you to do that.

سمعت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل أن يموت بخمس، وهو يقول : إني أبرأ إلى الله أن يكون لي منكم خليل، فإن الله قد اتخذني خليلا، كما اتخذ إبراهيم خليلا، ولو كنتُ متخذا من أمتي خليلا لاتخذت أبا بكر خليلاً، ألا وإن من كان قبلكم كانوا يتخذون قبور أنبيائهم وصالحيهم مساجد، ألا فلا تتخذوا القبور مساجد إني أنهاكم عن ذلك

Sahih Muslim 532

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The Shaykh : In my copy it says 'for I forbid you.' Did he point to a manuscript?
The reader: Except, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : No, for I...
The reader: He pointed to it in B and T, and said 'for I.'

The Shaykh : For I... good, the manuscript.
The reader: "And he described (peace and blessings be upon him) those who were before us..."