Dars e Ahadith-Grave Raising
“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)
Confirmed by the true vision of Aisha(radiAllahu anha): Yahya
related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that A’isha,the wife of the
Prophet, ﷺ, said, “I
saw three moons fall into my room, and I related my vision to Abu Bakr
as-Siddiq. Then, when the Messenger of Allah died, ﷺ, and was buried in my house, Abu Bakr said to
me, ‘This is one of your moons, and he is the best of them.’ “
(Muwatta Malik, Book#16, Hadith#16.10.30)
Narrated Abu Bakr bin ‘Aiyash : Sufyan At-Tammar told me that he had seen the grave of the Prophet
elevated and convex. [Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 473]
Narrated Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn AbuBakr: I said to Aisha! Mother, show me
the grave of the Apostle of Allah ﷺand his two Companions (Allah be pleased with
them). She showed me three graves which
were neither high nor low, but were spread with soft red pebbles in an open
space. [Abu Dawud, Book 20, Number 3214]
Abu Hanifa informed us from Hammad that Ibrahim said:
Someone informed me that they had seen the grave of Prophet ﷺ, the grave of Abu Bakr (ra), and the grave of
Umar (ra) with“mounds on top of them
protruding prominently from the gournd” and on them pieces of white clay.Imam
Muhammad said: We (Ahnaaf) adhere to this” [Kitab ul Athaar, Page No.
145, Published by Turath Publishing]
It is also established that the righteous
Khalifa Umar ibn Abdul-Aziz raised the grave of the Prophet (asws) even more (Fath
al-Bari3:357).
Ibn Abi Shayba recorded (Musannaf3:215) that al-Sha’bi (a Tabi’i) said: “I saw the graves of the martyrs of Uhud
elevated above the ground.”
The first Sahabi buried in the cemetery
of al-Madina, al-Baqi`, was `Uthman ibn Maz`un (ra), the milk-brother of the
Prophet ﷺ. The latter placed a large boulder on top of
his grave to mark it, saying: “By this I shall know where the grave of my
brother `Uthman is and add to him my relatives.”
[The hadith is narrated from an unnamed Companion by Abu
Dawud and al-Bayhaqi in al-Kubra (3:412) with fair chains cf. Ibn Hajar,
Talkhis al-Habir (2:134); Ibn al-Mulaqqin, Tuhfat al-Muhtaj (2:29). The
complete report states that the Prophet
asked a man to place a rock on top of Ibn Maz`un’s grave; when he was unable to
move it, he rolled up his sleeves and helped him and the whiteness of his arms
was visible. Ibn Maz`un was the first of the Muhâjirûn buried in Baqi` al-Gharqad.
Ibrahim, the Prophet’s son, was buried next to him.]
Kharija ibn Zayd said: “I can see myself when we were young men in the time of `Uthman [ibn `Affan] (ra). The strongest one of us in high jump was he who could jump over the grave of `Uthman ibn Maz`un and clear it.”[This hadith is cited by al-Bukhari without chain in his Sahih chapter-title, “[Placing] a Stalk on Top of the Grave.”]
Ibn Abi Shaiba also recorded(Musannaf3:216) that Abdullah
ibn Abi Bakr said, “I saw the grave of
Uthman ibn Madh’un raised high”.
Abu’l-Hayyaj al-Asadi told that ‘Ali (b. Abu Talib) said to him: Should I not send you on the same mission as Allah’s Messengerﷺ sent me? Do not leave an image without obliterating it, or a high grave without levelling It. This hadith has been reported by Habib with the same chain of transmitters and he said: (Do not leave) a picture without obliterating it. (Sahih Muslim, Book#004, Hadith#2115)This has nothing to do with the graves of Muslims as this narration is regarding the idols and graves of the mushrikeen.
Narrated Al-Muttalib: When Uthman ibn Maz’un died, he was brought out on his bier and buried. The Prophet ﷺordered a man
to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it. The Apostle of Allah ﷺgot up and going over to it rolled up his sleeves. [Abu Dawud, Book 20, Number 3200]“
“Prophet cast
three handfuls of earth on the dead with both hands, that he sprinkled water on
the grave of his son Ibrahim, and that he put small pebbles on it.”[
Al-Tirmidhi 1708]
Narrated Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn AbuBakr: I said to Aisha! Mother, show me
the grave of the Apostle of Allah ﷺand his two Companions (Allah be pleased with
them). She showed me three graves which
were neither high nor low, but were spread with soft red pebbles in an open
space. [Abu Dawud, Book 20, Number 3214]
(a)Sahih Bukhari vol 2 book 23 Hadith 473–Narrated Abu
Bakr bin ‘Aiyash : Sufyan At-Tammar told me that he had seen the grave of the Prophet elevated and convex.
b) Sunan al kubra volume 3 page 410 Imam Behaqi–Narrated The grave of Prophet was one span above the
ground
c) Sharah Muslim, vol 1 page 312 Imam Nawawi [r.h] writes: “Sunnah is to have the grave about the
length of one span…”
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