Reading from the author's words with commentary on them and collating the manuscripts: "And in the Sunan, it is reported from him that he said: 'Do not make my grave a festival
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The reader: "And in the Sunan, it is reported from him that he said: Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5:1006".
The Shaykh : The relevance of his saying: is that perhaps a person comes to the grave of the Messenger to pray upon him, so it is as if he said: Shorten your step, for wherever you pray upon me, it will reach me. May Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad. Yes.
The reader: "And in al-Muwatta' and other sources, it is reported from him (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said:Muwatta Malik 9:93. And in al-Musnad and Sahih Abi Hatim, from Ibn Mas'ud, from him (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2:461.
The meaning of these hadiths is mass-transmitted from him (peace and blessings be upon him) — my father and mother be sacrificed for him — and likewise from his Companions.
So this which is forbidden, taking graves as mosques, is distinct from what was commanded and prescribed, which is greeting the dead and making du'a' for them. So the prescribed visitation is of the same kind as the latter, and the innovated visitation is of the same kind as the former. For his prohibition of taking graves as mosques includes the prohibition of building mosques on them, and of intending to pray at them, and both are forbidden by the consensus of the scholars. For they have forbidden building mosques on graves, and indeed they have explicitly stated the prohibition of that, as indicated by the text.
And they also agreed that it is not prescribed to intend prayer and du'a' at graves, and no one among the imams of the Muslims has said that prayer at them and du'a' at them ".
The Shaykh : At them, meaning the graves.
The reader: "And no one among the imams of the Muslims has said that prayer at them and du'a' at them is better than in mosques that are free of graves".
The Shaykh : So we say: Those who intend the Mosque of al-Husayn or so-and-so or so-and-so, believing that they are buried in these mosques, have innovated and erred.
So if someone says: What do you say if a person intends them for the sake of the large number of people there, the large gathering?
We say: There is no doubt that a large gathering is better, but this benefit is opposed by a harm, which is the belief that prayer in this place is better not because of the large gathering, but because it is built on a grave. And in that case, we say: Do not go, reduce it. And we have clarified that if a grave is built upon a mosque, the prayer in it is invalid.
Do not make my grave a festival, and send prayers upon me wherever you are, for your prayers reach me
لا تتخذوا قبري عيدا، وصلوا علي حيثما كنتم فإن صلاتكم تبلغنيThe Shaykh : The relevance of his saying:
Do not make my grave a festival, and send prayers upon me wherever you are
لا تتخذوا قبري عيداً وصلوا علي حيثما كنتمThe reader: "And in al-Muwatta' and other sources, it is reported from him (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said:
O Allah! Do not make my grave an idol that is worshipped. The anger on those who took the graves of their Prophets as places of prostration was terrible.
اللهم لا تجعل قبري وثنًا يعبد، اشتد غضب الله على قوم اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجدIndeed, among the worst of people are those whom the Hour overtakes while they are alive, and those who take the graves as mosques
إن من شرار الناس من تدركهم الساعة وهم أحياء، والذين يتخذون القبور مساجدThe meaning of these hadiths is mass-transmitted from him (peace and blessings be upon him) — my father and mother be sacrificed for him — and likewise from his Companions.
So this which is forbidden, taking graves as mosques, is distinct from what was commanded and prescribed, which is greeting the dead and making du'a' for them. So the prescribed visitation is of the same kind as the latter, and the innovated visitation is of the same kind as the former. For his prohibition of taking graves as mosques includes the prohibition of building mosques on them, and of intending to pray at them, and both are forbidden by the consensus of the scholars. For they have forbidden building mosques on graves, and indeed they have explicitly stated the prohibition of that, as indicated by the text.
And they also agreed that it is not prescribed to intend prayer and du'a' at graves, and no one among the imams of the Muslims has said that prayer at them and du'a' at them ".
The Shaykh : At them, meaning the graves.
The reader: "And no one among the imams of the Muslims has said that prayer at them and du'a' at them is better than in mosques that are free of graves".
The Shaykh : So we say: Those who intend the Mosque of al-Husayn or so-and-so or so-and-so, believing that they are buried in these mosques, have innovated and erred.
So if someone says: What do you say if a person intends them for the sake of the large number of people there, the large gathering?
We say: There is no doubt that a large gathering is better, but this benefit is opposed by a harm, which is the belief that prayer in this place is better not because of the large gathering, but because it is built on a grave. And in that case, we say: Do not go, reduce it. And we have clarified that if a grave is built upon a mosque, the prayer in it is invalid.