Reading from the author's words with commentary on them and collating the manuscripts: "The second: that most of this involves digging up the graves of Muslims
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The reader: "The second: that most of this involves digging up the graves of Muslims and removing the bones of their dead, as is known in many of these locations"
The Shaykh : Locations, do you have "locations" or "places"?
The Reciter: Yes.
The Shaykh : Locations.
The reader: "As is known in many of these locations.
The third: that Muslim narrated in his Sahih from Jabir:Muwatta Malik 14:2.
The fourth: that building latrines, which are places of impurity"
The Shaykh : Building over graves, do you have that?
The Reciter: Yes.
The Shaykh : They told us that in some regions they make stone structures for the dead, is that so, Hajjaj?
The student: In some of them...
The Shaykh : Like this? Yes, but he says: in some of them they make a stone structure. Making a stone structure is not permissible; it is not permissible to make a stone structure. Some people say that the ground sometimes becomes water because it is near the sea, so they think to place the dead on the surface of the ground and build over them. In this case, one might look into whether another method is possible or not.
The questioner : If the ground is sandy.
The student: The time for the question has not come, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The time for the question has not come? All right.
The reader: "The fourth: that building latrines, which are places of impurity, between the graves of Muslims is among the ugliest things by which graves are neighbored, especially if the place of the latrine is the grave of a Muslim man.
The fifth: making graves into mosques, and some of the texts forbidding this have been mentioned previously.
The sixth: lighting lamps on graves, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has cursed the one who does that.
The seventh: imitating the People of the Book in many of their sayings, actions, and customs because of this, as is the reality. And other such aspects.
And the structure that was over the grave of Ibrahim al-Khalil (peace be upon him)".
The Shaykh : The structure, "al-bunyah" is a form meaning "that which is built," the structure, yes.
The reader: "And the structure that was over the grave of Ibrahim al-Khalil (peace be upon him) was sealed off, and no one entered it until the fourth century. It was said that some women connected to the caliphs saw a dream about it and it was dug open for that".
The Shaykh : It was dug open for that, I say "it was dug open" (nuqibat) is better than "dug" (naqabat).
The reader: "It was said that some women connected to the caliphs saw a dream about it and it was dug open for that, and it was said: that when the Christians took control of these regions, they dug it open. Then it was left as a mosque after the later conquests. The people of virtue among our Shaykhs did not pray in the entirety of that structure, and they forbade their companions from praying in it, following the command of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and avoiding his disobedience, as mentioned previously.
Likewise, lighting lamps in these shrines is absolutely not permissible, without any disagreement that I am aware of, due to the prohibition that has come. It is not permissible to fulfill vows made to them with oil or the like; rather, its ruling is the ruling of a vow of disobedience"
The Shaykh : Its ruling.
The reader: "Rather, its ruling is the ruling of a vow of disobedience".
The Shaykh : Locations, do you have "locations" or "places"?
The Reciter: Yes.
The Shaykh : Locations.
The reader: "As is known in many of these locations.
The third: that Muslim narrated in his Sahih from Jabir:
Yahya related to me from Malik from one of the Ansar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade defecating or urinating while facing the qibla.
أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : نهى أن يبنى على القبورThe fourth: that building latrines, which are places of impurity"
The Shaykh : Building over graves, do you have that?
The Reciter: Yes.
The Shaykh : They told us that in some regions they make stone structures for the dead, is that so, Hajjaj?
The student: In some of them...
The Shaykh : Like this? Yes, but he says: in some of them they make a stone structure. Making a stone structure is not permissible; it is not permissible to make a stone structure. Some people say that the ground sometimes becomes water because it is near the sea, so they think to place the dead on the surface of the ground and build over them. In this case, one might look into whether another method is possible or not.
The questioner : If the ground is sandy.
The student: The time for the question has not come, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The time for the question has not come? All right.
The reader: "The fourth: that building latrines, which are places of impurity, between the graves of Muslims is among the ugliest things by which graves are neighbored, especially if the place of the latrine is the grave of a Muslim man.
The fifth: making graves into mosques, and some of the texts forbidding this have been mentioned previously.
The sixth: lighting lamps on graves, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has cursed the one who does that.
The seventh: imitating the People of the Book in many of their sayings, actions, and customs because of this, as is the reality. And other such aspects.
And the structure that was over the grave of Ibrahim al-Khalil (peace be upon him)".
The Shaykh : The structure, "al-bunyah" is a form meaning "that which is built," the structure, yes.
The reader: "And the structure that was over the grave of Ibrahim al-Khalil (peace be upon him) was sealed off, and no one entered it until the fourth century. It was said that some women connected to the caliphs saw a dream about it and it was dug open for that".
The Shaykh : It was dug open for that, I say "it was dug open" (nuqibat) is better than "dug" (naqabat).
The reader: "It was said that some women connected to the caliphs saw a dream about it and it was dug open for that, and it was said: that when the Christians took control of these regions, they dug it open. Then it was left as a mosque after the later conquests. The people of virtue among our Shaykhs did not pray in the entirety of that structure, and they forbade their companions from praying in it, following the command of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and avoiding his disobedience, as mentioned previously.
Likewise, lighting lamps in these shrines is absolutely not permissible, without any disagreement that I am aware of, due to the prohibition that has come. It is not permissible to fulfill vows made to them with oil or the like; rather, its ruling is the ruling of a vow of disobedience"
The Shaykh : Its ruling.
The reader: "Rather, its ruling is the ruling of a vow of disobedience".