Dars e Imam-Stone Marking

“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)

Imam Shafi(al Umm 1:277) said: “I have seen the governors who demolished[tombs] in Mecca built inside the city, and I found no jurist who saw therein a wrong decision. If it was a question of tombs on land owned by the dead in their lifetime or bequeathed to their offspring, nothing that was built on their part was destroyed. Only that which no one called his own was demolished.The demolition took place so that the space around the tomb would not be inaccessible to[other] people or prevent others from being buried there, and to avoid people’s being harmpered.”

Imam Shafi then quotes this same hadith as proof for the validity of the action of those authorities in destroying those structures in public graveyards. Therefore, this hadith as understood by the early Imams is regarding the issue of making space in public graveyards. And this would infact apply to all structures built illegally over public property. But some of the later scholars have further explained that this issue of making space in public graveyards do not apply to the Prophets or friends of Allah because their bodies at many times do not decay. Therefore, their graves will always be occupied and the issue of vacating space do not apply to them.

So in this specific issue of making space, there is differences of opinion and each locality should follow what is suitable to their location as per what the legitimate authentic scholars see needed and not upon the whims of the — who deem Muslims to be polytheists based on it.

Moreover, it should also be noted that Imam Shafi, in the same quote above, does not apply this hadith to graves located in private property and confirms that such structures were not destroyed by the authorities. Therefore, this hadith cannot be applied to a private property. Moreover, this saying of Imam Shafi rahimahullah also constitutes another proof that the construction of structures over graves was in practice by Muslims during the period of salaf itself, who constitute the best generation of Muslims. Furthermore, Imam Nawawi, known as the second Imam Shafi, relates in his Rawdat Talibeen(Kitab al Wassiyat) that imarat(building) of the graves of the ambiya,ulema and saliheen for the purpose of ziyarah and tabarruk is Jaiz. While Ibn Hajr al Haythami in his Tuhfa and Imam Ramli in Nihaya, similarily explains with regards to wasiyyat, that it is a pious act to build a qubba or a mashhad over the grave of ambiya, ulema and saliheen for purpose of facilitating ziyarah and tabarruk.

Marking the graves with stones is a Sunnah
Regarding the issue of marking the grave by placing stones over the grave, then this is proven sunnah:
Narrated Al-Muttalib: When Uthman ibn Maz’un died, he was brought out on his bier and buried. The Prophet ﷺ ordered a man to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it. The Apostle of Allah ﷺ got 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 ﷺ and 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]

Moreover, coating the grave with material others than plaster, like clay is permitted among the scholars, as admitted in the book “fiqh us sunnah” (commonly used by misguided group) that “Some scholars have approved daubing the grave with clay. Tirmidhi said: “Some scholars, including Al-Hasan alBasri, hold it permissible to coat the graves with clay.” Ash-Shafi’i is also of the same view and sees no harm in giving the graves a coating of clay. Ja’far bin Muhammad reported from his father: “The grave of the Prophet ﷺ was raised one hand from the ground and was coated with red clay and some gravel.” This was narrated by Abu Bakr An-Najjad.

The Dome of the rock, which is of the oldest Islamic structure is under the threat of destruction, as such structure constitutes a evil innovation as per the religion of –m. Next to the dome of the rock is the dome of the Miraj, which is attributed to be the location from where the ascension to heaven took place in the life of Prophet Muhammed ﷺ This form of constructing domes over such locations or giving it any importance is by Wahhabi foundations a evil innovation that should be destroyed and bulldozed due to fear of polytheism. The enemy’s of Islam have to only give power to the followers of Wahhabi tradition inorder to destroy every Islamic historical structure standing, including the dome of the rock.

Besides confronting the fact that, the grave of the blessed Prophet of Islam and two of his closest companions were buried within a structure from the very first day, they also have to deal with fact that other holy places or relics had domes constructed over it.

From among them is the maqam Ibrahim, which had a dome constructed over it in the early periods of Islam. Umar radhiAllahu anhu was “the first one who built a structure (maqsura) around it.” (Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari, 8:169). Even today, there continues to be a structure in the form of a gold casing over it. As per Wahhabi tradition and customs, this should be a evil innovation that leads to polytheism, since in their logic Muslims would start to worship the relic of the footmark of Prophet Ibrahim alaihi salaam, when such a structure is built over it.

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