Explanation of the Book of Prayer-08

The Shaykh : Then he said "And from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him)" He began the new lesson "And from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

All of the earth is a Masjid except for the graveyard and the washroom.

الأرض كلها مسجد إلا المقبرة والحمام

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 317Sahih (Darussalam)

. Al-Tirmidhi narrated it, and it has a defect" His saying (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): The generality in this phrase is apparent; the entire earth is a mosque. This generality resembles his saying (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) in the hadith of Jabir: Thus, the entire earth is a place for prayer due to this generality, due to this generality. And his saying: means: a place for prostration. The intended meaning of prostration is prayer, but he expressed the whole by one of its parts. The graveyard is the place of graves, and the bathroom is the place of bathing, meaning the bath. As for the graveyard, it is because it is the place of graves, and the graves contain the righteous and the awliya (close friends of Allah). If a person prays in the graveyard, this prayer might be a means to praying at the graves, to praying at the graves. The reason is not, as some say, that graveyards are dug up and pus, bones, and pieces of skin and the like come out of them. The reason is that prayer in the graveyard is a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah), major shirk or minor shirk. As for the bathroom, the bathroom is what is a place of harm and filth, so the reason for prohibiting prayer in it is impurity. And what is pure of it, the reason for prohibiting prayer in it is that it is a refuge for the jinn, because people enter the bathroom naked and bathe in it, so it is fitting that they do not pray in it.