The Ruling on Burying the Dead in Mosques and Using Them as Graves
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Question:
What is the ruling on burying a dead person in a mosque, using it as a place of visitation, and profiting from it financially?
Answer:
This is reprehensible. It is not permissible to bury people in mosques. Mosques are not graveyards. The dead are buried outside the mosques, in areas in the desert. As for the mosque, it is not permissible to bury anyone in it, nor is it permissible to build a mosque over graves. One does not bury in it, nor is it built over graves. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 529.
And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 532 They advise and teach. If someone is buried in a mosque, he must be exhumed and moved to the graveyard. It is not permissible for him to remain in the mosque—may Allah guide us.
What is the ruling on burying a dead person in a mosque, using it as a place of visitation, and profiting from it financially?
Answer:
This is reprehensible. It is not permissible to bury people in mosques. Mosques are not graveyards. The dead are buried outside the mosques, in areas in the desert. As for the mosque, it is not permissible to bury anyone in it, nor is it permissible to build a mosque over graves. One does not bury in it, nor is it built over graves. 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 مساجدAnd he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Beware of those who preceded you and used to take the graves of their prophets and righteous men as places of worship, but you must not take graves as mosques; I forbid you to do that.
ألا وإن من كان قبلكم كانوا يتخذون قبور أنبيائهم وصالحيهم مساجد، ألا فلا تتخذوا القبور مساجد، فإني أنهاكم عن ذلك
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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