Awliya -Bayah Tree

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Putting pictures at graves is  haram .

Hadith is stated for Christians and non muslims, And some people blindly quote such hadiths and verses for muslims

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “Do not set out on a journey except for three mosques, i.e. Al-Masjid-Al-Haram, the Mosque of Allah’s Apostle, and the Mosque of Al-Aqsa (Mosque of Jerusalem).” [Sahih bukhari volume 2,number 281]
Some people take this hadith literally to claim that going to any mosque(based on intention of high sawaab) or Shrine is Haram.

Imam Nawawi write in Sharah of hadith ‘Not to travel (for visiting) except for three mosques (Bukhari)’ the true meaning of hadith, He (Nawawi) Write: In this haidth the Three Mosques status and thier high status as compaired to other mosques in the world is mentioned, because these are mosques of the Prophets and this is why offering salat in them has greater blessing. According to them it means that to go for a journey for Sawab having intentions of complete and utmost blessing is only permissible for these three mosques.[Sharah Sahih Muslim, Nawawi, Volume 009, Page No. 106]

Ibn e taymiyah said He said “It is also mustahabb (recommended) to visit the graves of the people of al-Baqee’ and the martyrs of Uhud, to pray for them and ask for forgiveness for them, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to do this, but this is prescribed for all the Muslim graves.” (Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 17/470)

Ibn ‘Umar (ra) who said: “The Prophet ﷺ used to come to Quba’ riding and walking.” According to another report: “and he would pray two rak’ahs there.” (Bukhaari and Muslim).

The Prophet ﷺ also said, “Whoever purifies himself in his house then comes to the mosque of Quba’ and prays there, he will have a reward like that for ‘Umrah.”  Narrated by Ahmad, al-Nasaa’i, Ibn Maajah
this proves that the hadith of only visiting three moques if taken literally is illogical , As Sahabas (Ra) used to Visit janat ul baqi and also visiting Masjid e Quba is recommended

It states it is narrated that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (ra) heard that some people were visiting the tree under which the Prophet (ﷺ) had accepted the bay’ah of people, so he commanded that it should be cut down.”

This incident -“as recorded in Sahih Bukhari (Kitab al-Maghazi) and Muslim (Kitab al-Imamah) -“ took place because there was controversy over which tree was the one where ba’yah was taken and reliable sources from amongst the Sahabah held that that tree was definitely the wrong tree and the original tree could no longer be located and had vanished .

Sahih Bukhari Book 52 Hadith 205 -Narrated Ibn ‘Umar: When we reached (Hudaibiya) in the next year (of the treaty of Hudaibiya), not even two men amongst us agreed unanimously as to which was the tree under which we had given the pledge of allegiance, and that was out of Allah’s Mercy.The tree that the Tabi’een were visiting at the Hudaybiyyah , in the the time of Sayyidina Umar was not the real one, but it was in the same valley where the real one was.Hence, the real reason Umar had the tree chopped down (because it was wrongly attributed to the Prophet ﷺ.In fact, the mysterious vanishing of the real tree by Allah (subhanu wa taala) shows how important it was .

In the last moments of Jabir Bin Abdullah he had lost his sight he use to say: ‘If I could see today I would show you where the tree was, where the Prophet (ﷺ) received the Ba’ya of the companions”. [Sahih Bukhari chap,Al-Magazi]

Imam Ibn Hajar Asqalani says in the commentry: “Some people forgot where this place was like Sa’eed Bin Al-Musayib’s Father, and some knew where it was like Jabir Bin Abdullah”. [Fathul bari, chapter Bay’a Ridwan]

Imam Tabari said: During the period of Umar (Radiall hu anhu’s) Khalifet, he went for pilgrimage, when he passed Hudaiba’ he asked:“Where is the tree under which the bay’a took place?” A person replied: ‘This one”. Someone said: ‘This one”. Umar (Radiall hu anhu) said: “Forget the inconvenience”. [Tafsir Tafhemul Qur’an Surah Fata’h under verse 18 by Sayyid Maududi].

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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