Awliya-Grave Levelling Elevation

“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)

 

Aulia qubur

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal narrates that before Sayyidina Umar (r) was buried in her room, Sayyidah Aisha (r) would go their without Hijab, as the Nabi ﷺ and Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r), who were buried there were her Husband and Father. However, when Sayyidina Umar got buried there, she would only go in the room with Hijab. (Mishkat: Bab ziyarat al-Qubur).

According to Sayyidah Aisha, the dead can feel and see their visitors and are aware of those who come to them and How they come to them. .

It is narrated in a Sahih Hadith that Nabi Muhammad ﷺ said that every person’s grave will be either a garden from the gardens of Paradise or a hole from the holes of hell (rawda mim riyad al-Jannah aw Hufrah min Hufar an naar)

If the qabr of a normal mu’min is a garden of paradise, what about the Qubur of the Awliya of Allah (subhanu wa taala). Are they not from the Jannah?, if yes, then only a fool can claim that there is no Baraka there.

The elevation of a grave

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 (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]

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  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.”(Abu Dawud , al-Bayhaqi in al-Kubra (3:412))

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 (young boys] 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 Hajar al Asqalani in Fath al-Bari (3:256=1959 ed. 3:223 cf. Taghliq al-Ta`liq): “Al-Bukhari narrated it with its chain in al-Tarikh al-Saghir (1:42). It contains a proof for the licitness of raising high the grave and elevating it above the surface of the earth.”‘

Imam Qastallani (ra) in his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari “Irshad al-Sari fi sharh Sahih al-Bukhari”, that the above hadith is proof, a high grave is jaiz(permissible).

Ibn Abi Shaiba also recorded(Musannaf3:216) that Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr said, “I saw the grave of Uthman ibn Madh’un raised high”.

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