Ruling on distributing food and reciting the Qur'an at graves
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Question:
From the Arab Republic of Egypt, the listener Fajj Awad Salih asks and says: In our town, when someone passes away, the women go out to the graves with food, drinks, sweets, and vegetables, and they give them to some people. Is this permissible or not?
Then, the family of the deceased spreads out carpets, hires a reciter, sets up a microphone for him, and gives him a sum of money. What is your opinion regarding these actions?
May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
These actions are religious innovations, so it is not permissible to do them. Neither going out with food to the graves, nor hiring a reciter; all of this is religious innovation.
The point is: one does not recite at the graves, nor gather there for recitation, nor gather there to distribute food. Going out with food to be distributed at the graves; all of this has no basis. It is not from the practice of the righteous predecessors, but rather it is religious innovation. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith:Sahih Muslim 1718a meaning: in our religion Sahih Muslim 1718a It is agreed upon as authentic, and the meaning is: so it is rejected: meaning it is rejected.
And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 1718b Narrated by Muslim in the authentic collection, meaning: so it is rejected.
And the hadiths in this meaning are many. And Allah says, Exalted is He: [Al-Shura: 21] And He says, Exalted is He: [Al-Jathiyah: 18].
So it is obligatory upon the people of Islam to follow the Shari'ah that was established from him (peace and blessings be upon him), to adhere to it, and to beware of what contradicts it. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
From the Arab Republic of Egypt, the listener Fajj Awad Salih asks and says: In our town, when someone passes away, the women go out to the graves with food, drinks, sweets, and vegetables, and they give them to some people. Is this permissible or not?
Then, the family of the deceased spreads out carpets, hires a reciter, sets up a microphone for him, and gives him a sum of money. What is your opinion regarding these actions?
May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
These actions are religious innovations, so it is not permissible to do them. Neither going out with food to the graves, nor hiring a reciter; all of this is religious innovation.
The point is: one does not recite at the graves, nor gather there for recitation, nor gather there to distribute food. Going out with food to be distributed at the graves; all of this has no basis. It is not from the practice of the righteous predecessors, but rather it is religious innovation. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith:
He who innovates things in our affairs
من أحدث في أمرناin our affairs for which there is no valid (reason) (commits sin) and these are to be rejected
هذا ما ليس منه فهو ردAnd he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.
من عمل عملاً ليس عليه أمرنا فهو ردAnd the hadiths in this meaning are many. And Allah says, Exalted is He:
Or have they other deities who have ordained for them a religion to which Allah has not consented?
أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ شَرَعُوا لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهُThen We put you, [O Muhammad], on an ordained way concerning the matter [of religion]; so follow it
ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاكَ عَلَى شَرِيعَةٍ مِنَ الأَمْرِ فَاتَّبِعْهَاSo it is obligatory upon the people of Islam to follow the Shari'ah that was established from him (peace and blessings be upon him), to adhere to it, and to beware of what contradicts it. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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