Ruling on praying in a mosque adjacent to graveyards
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Question:
This is a message received from Sudan from al-Tayyib Musa. He says: We have a mosque near the graveyards, about fifty meters away. One of the worshippers refused to pray in this mosque due to the hadith that says: We ask you to provide us with the ruling?
Answer:
If the mosque is on land that does not contain graves, and there is a barrier between it and the graves in the form of a road or a wall, then there is no harm, praise be to Allah. Graveyards are not to be made into mosques. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 529, and he said (peace and blessings be upon him): Sunan an-Nasa'i 760Sahih (Darussalam). So if it is outside the graveyard, and its qiblah is not toward them, but rather there is a wall or a road between it and them, then there is no blame in that...
This is a message received from Sudan from al-Tayyib Musa. He says: We have a mosque near the graveyards, about fifty meters away. One of the worshippers refused to pray in this mosque due to the hadith that says:
Do not make your mosques into graveyards
لا تجعلوا مساجدكم مقابرAnswer:
If the mosque is on land that does not contain graves, and there is a barrier between it and the graves in the form of a road or a wall, then there is no harm, praise be to Allah. Graveyards are not to be made into mosques. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians that they took the graves of their prophets as mosques
لعن الله اليهود والنصارى اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجدDo not pray toward graves and do not sit on them.
لا تصلوا إلى القبور ولا تجلسوا عليها
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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