Dars e Imam-Sacrifizing For Dead
“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)
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-‘As: Al-‘As ibn Wa’il left his will that a hundred slaves should be emancipated on his behalf.
His son Hisham emancipated fifty slaves and his son Amr intended to emancipate
the remaining fifty on his behalf, but he said: I should ask first the Apostle
of Allah ﷺ He,
therefore, came to the Prophet ﷺ and said:
Apostle of Allah, my father left in his will that a hundred slaves should be
emancipated on his behalf and Hisham has emancipated fifty on his behalf and
fifty remain. Shall I emancipate them on his behalf? The Apostle of Allah ﷺ said: Had
he been a Muslim and you had emancipated slaves on his behalf, or given sadaqah
on his behalf, or performed the pilgrimage, that would have reached him.
[Abu Dawud Book 17 Hadith 2877 ]
Abdullah b. Buraida (Allah be pleased with him) reported on the authority of
his father: When we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a woman came to him and said: I had gifted to my mother a maid-servant, and now she (the mother)
has died. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There is a definite reward for you and she (the maid-servant) has been
returned to you as an inheritance. She (that woman) again said: Fasts of a month (of Ramadan) are due upon
her; should I observe them on her behalf? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe fasts on her behalf. She
(again) said: She did not perform Hajj,
should I perform it on her behalf? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Perform Hajj on
her behalf.[Sahih Muslim Book 6 Hadith 2558]
Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We performed Hajj along with Allah’s
Messenger ﷺ, and we sacrificed a camel on behalf of seven persons, and a cow
on behalf of seven persons.[Sahih Muslim Book 7 Hadith 3026 ]
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: A woman said: Apostle of Allah, my mother
suddenly died; if it had not happened, she would have given sadaqah (charity)
and donated (something). Will it
suffice if I give sadaqah on her behalf? The Prophet ﷺ said: Yes,
give sadaqah on her behalf. [Abu Dawud Book 17 Hadith # 2875],
Narrated ‘Aisha: A man said to the Prophet, “My mother died suddenly, and
I think that if she could speak, she
would have given in charity. May I give in charity on her behalf?” He
said, “Yes! Give in charity on her behalf.” [Sahih Bukhari
Book 51 Hadith 22]
On issue of Sacrificing for Dead
Sayyidina Ali (RA) always sacrificed two rams, one on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ and one on
his own account. Someone asked him, Why do you do that? He said, ‘The Prophet ﷺ had
commanded me to do it. So I will never neglect it.”. [Abu
Dawud ,Book 15 ,Hadith 2784 [ under heading of sarficing for deceased/those in
graves]
‘A’isha reported Allah’s Apostle ﷺ saying: If a company of
Muslims numbering one hundred pray over a dead person, all of them interceding
for him, their intercession for him will be accepted.[Sahih Muslim Book
4 Hadith 2071]
Even animals , mankind, birds can do
ishal e sawab for dead
Sayyidina Anas (RA) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said, “If a Muslim plants
a tree or cultivates land and a man, a bird or an animal eats from it then that
is a sadaqah[charity] on his behalf[Bukhari 2320, Muslim 1553, Ahmed
12497]
Abbas bin Muhammad (rah) asked Imam Yahya bin Ma’een about “RECITING (QURAN) AT
THE GRAVE” he replied: It is narrated from Mubashar ibn Ismail al-Halbi who
narrated from Abdur Rahman bin al-Ala bin Lajlaaj, who narrated from his father
(Sahabi) that his father said to his sons: When you are entering me in the qabr then make a Lahd then say: In the
name of Allah and upon the Sunnah of RasoolAllah ﷺ” and then
start adding dust, after this stand on my (head’s) side reciting the “BEGINNING
AND ENEDING OF SURAH AL-BAQARAH” because I saw Ibn Umar (ra) considering this
as a “RECOMMENDED DEED” [Sunnan Bayhaqi al-Kubra (5/404), Hadith # 7097]
Regarding such ahadith mentioned in Bayhaqi, Imam al-Nawawi (rah) the legendary
scholar said: It is narrated in with
“HASAN CHAIN” that Ibn Umar (ra) considered it “MUSTAHAB/RECOMMENDED” to recite the beginning and ending of Surah
al-Baqarah “UPON THE GRAVE AFTER BURIAL” [Imam al-Nawawi in Kitab ul
Adhkaar (1/162)]
Volume 1, Book 4, Number 215: (Sahih Bukhari)Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: Once the
Prophet, while passing through one of the grave-yards of Medina or Mecca heard
the voices of two persons who were being tortured in their graves. The Prophet
said, “These two persons are being tortured not for a major sin (to
avoid).” The Prophet then added, “Yes! (they are being tortured for a
major sin). Indeed, one of them never
saved himself from being soiled with his urine while the other used to go about
with calumnies (to make enmiy between friends).(ilm e ghaib –prophet saws knows
what they did while they were alive ie the reason for the torture) The
Prophet then asked for a green leaf of a date-palm tree, broke it into two
pieces and put one on each grave. On being asked why he had done so, he
replied, “I hope that their
torture might be lessened, till these get dried.”
Why punishment is reduced
due to plants on grave?
The reason is that trees, leaves, plants do “Dhikr of Allah” so the logic of
Adhaab being reduced is that till the time they remain fresh they will do dhikr
due to which the punishment on Sahib-e-Qabr will be reduced, when Tasbih of
Plants benefits the deceased then imagine the benefit of humans reciting Quran
at graves and denoting the thawaab.
This is why Imam Ibn Hajr al-Asqalani (rah) said: The meaning of it is that
till the time the stem remains fresh it will keep on doing Tasbih and due to
Barakah of that Tasbih the punishment will be reduced. It is also derived from
this that everything which has freshness from trees/plants then to put it on
graves is a cause of reducing punishment. Similarly “EVERYTHING WHICH HAS
BARAKAH LIKE DHIKR AND RECITATION OF QURAN, IS MORE AWLA (I.E. GREATER) IN THIS
REGARD” [Fath ul Bari, Sharh Sahih ul-Bukhari (1/426)]
Eating halaal –accountable and
Eating haraam-punishable
Mujahid =striving hard for obedience /itaat of Allah
Muhajir=away from sins (taqwa)
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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