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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The reader: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) described that those who came before us used to take the graves of the prophets and the righteous as mosques. He followed this description with a command using the letter fa, that they should not take graves as mosques, and he said that he (peace and blessings be upon him) forbids us from doing so. In this is an indication that the practice of those before us is the cause of our prohibition; either it is a manifestation of the prohibition, or it is a reason for the prohibition, and that"

The Shaykh : Either a manifestation
The reader: "Either a manifestation of the prohibition or a reason for the prohibition, and this necessitates that their actions are an indication and a sign that Allah forbids us from them, or that they are an operative cause necessitating the prohibition.
On both assumptions: it is known that opposing them is a matter required by the Lawgiver in general. The prohibition of this act, along with the cursing of the Jews and the Christians, is widely reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). In *the two Sahihs*, from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Let Allah destroy the Jews for they have taken the graves of their apostles as places of worship. قاتل الله اليهود ، اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجد
Sahih Muslim 530a
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In a wording in Muslim:
Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians that they took the graves of their prophets as mosques لعن الله اليهود والنصارى اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجد
Sahih Muslim 529
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In *the two Sahihs*, from Aisha and Ibn Abbas, they said:
When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was afflicted, he began to throw his cloak over his face. When he was distressed by it, he would remove it from his face. And he said while in that state: The curse of Allah be upon the Jews and the Christians; they took the graves of their prophets as mosques. He was warning against what they did لما نُزل برسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم طفق يطرح خميصةً له على وجهه فإذا اغتم بها كشفها عن وجهه فقال وهو كذلك : لعنةُ الله على اليهود والنصارى ، اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجد . يُحذر ما صنعوا
. Also in *the two Sahihs*, from Aisha:
That Umm Salama and Umm Habiba mentioned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) a church they had seen in the land of Abyssinia, called Mariyyah. They mentioned its beauty and the images in it. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Those are a people who, when a righteous slave or a righteous man dies among them, they build a mosque over his grave أن أم سلمة وأم حبيبة ذكرتا لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كنيسة رأينها بأرضِ الحبشة، يُقال لها : مارية . وذكرتا من حُسنها وتصاوير فيها . فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : أولئك قوم إذا مات فيهم العبد الصالح، أو الرجل الصالح، بنوا على قبره مسجدا
"
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The Shaykh : His statement:
or a righteous man أو الرجل
may be for variation or for doubt from the narrator. The meaning, the meaning does not differ; the righteous slave and the righteous man mean the same thing. Accordingly, the apparent is that it is doubt from the narrator.
The reader: "
If any righteous pious man dies amongst them, they would build a place of worship at his grave and make these pictures in it; they are the worst creatures in the sight of Allah. أولئك قومٌ إذا مات فيهم العبد الصالح، أو الرجل الصالح، بنوا على قبره مسجدا، وصوروا فيه تلك الصور أولئك شرارُ الخلق عند الله عز وجل
Sahih al-Bukhari 434
. And from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), he said:
Allah's Messenger cursed the women who visit the graves, and those who use them as Masajid and put torches on them. لعن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم زائرات القبور، والمتخذين عليها المساجد والسرُج
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 320Da'if (Darussalam)
It was narrated by the people of the four Sunans, and al-Tirmidhi said: A good hadith. In some of its copies: Authentic. So this warning from him and the cursing regarding imitating "
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