The Ruling on Traveling to Graves and Shrines

Question:
They are asking Your Eminence for your opinion on traveling from one country to another to visit the shrine of one of the awliya (close friends of Allah)? Even if the distance is short, let the distance be, for example, one hundred kilometers, and let this wali (close friend of Allah) be, for example, one of the Companions? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Traveling to visit graves is not permissible, but they are visited without traveling. A person visits the graves in his own country, he greets them, and he prays for them if they are Muslims. If they are disbelievers, he visits them for the sake of taking a lesson and admonition only, and he does not greet them; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. It was narrated by Muslim in his Sahih.
And he taught his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) when they visited the graves to say: And sometimes he would say in some of his words when visiting the graves: And sometimes he would say: .
So a person greets them in this manner, in the manner that came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he prays for them, but without traveling. If they are far away, he does not travel to them. He visits the graves in his own country without traveling. And if he travels to a country for a benefit, for trade, or to visit a brother of his, and he wishes to visit their graves, there is nothing wrong with it, if the travel is not for their sake, but for trade, or to visit a living relative, or a friend, or for other reasons, and he wishes to visit the graves, then it is a recommended practice (sunnah). The visit is a recommended practice (sunnah); in it is admonition, in it are benefits, it reminds one of death, it reminds one of the Hereafter, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But he is not allowed to travel to them if they are far away; because of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): .
So these three mosques are the ones for which one travels, for praying in them, and for worship, and for Hajj in al-Masjid al-Haram. As for other mosques, places, and graves, one does not travel to them. One does not travel to any place, not a cemetery, not a rock, not al-Tur where Allah spoke to Musa (peace be upon him), nor anything else, ever. One does not travel to these things.
And when Abu Hurayrah traveled to al-Tur, Basrah ibn Abi Basrah al-Ghifari rebuked him and said: If I had known, I would not have traveled; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
So you, O Abdullah, you must follow the Sunnah and not deviate from it. You visit the graves in your country, and you do not travel to them, in any place. You do not travel to them. And this is for men only. As for women, they are not allowed to visit them, because of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)... because he (peace and blessings be upon him) So they do not visit the graves, and only the men visit them. This is the correct view. Yes.

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