Awliya-Grave Musjid Tombs

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“Abdullah related that the Prophet, ﷺ, prayed at the end of the upper part of the valley behind al-‘Arj if you are on the way to Hadba.*There are two or three graves at that mosque, on which are piles of stones, to the right of the path at the large stones marking the path. ‘Abdullah used to return home from al-‘Arj after the sun had declined from midday. He would pray Dhuhr in that mosque.'” [Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No.470]

Moreover, the tombs that are in existance today are not considered as a masjid in and of itself, in the first place. Many of them are mere structures to facilitate ziyarah and mark the grave, by a bayt over it. And those places were mosques do exist, they are built in the vicinity of  the grave and is usually seperated from the tomb by some form of a barrier and exist as part of whole complex of buildings.

 as neither the grave itself nor its immediate close surrounding was considered ever as a masjid. They were instead seperated from the masjid, just as the bayt in which rests the Prophet ﷺ, was seperated by walls from the masjid. The grave by itself never tookover the function of a masjid.

provide evidence as to how many metres or kilometres away from a grave can a masjid be built or salat be performed.

And indeed the greetings upon the Prophet(peace be upon him) reaches him from any place on the earth and hence it is not a requirement that a person has to always visit the graves to send their greetings.

The actions of the salaf instead shows that they on the contrary rebuilded and expanded the structue, thereby clearly refuting such claims:

Narrated ‘Urwa: When the wall fell on them (i.e. graves) during the caliphate of Al-Walid bin ‘Abdul Malik, the people started repairing it, and a foot appeared to them. The people got scared and thought that it was the foot of the Prophet. No-one could be found who could tell them about it till I (‘Urwa) said to them, “By Allah, this is not the foot of the Prophet but it is the foot of Umar.” [Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 474]

If the salaf, being the best of generation, had no problem with rebuilding it then, neither should the misguided groups who all this while self labelled themselves as followers of the opinion of salaf, be hypocritically abondoning the salaf when it goes against their claims.

It is permitted to bury a person within a mosque or structure, and the only condition to be satisified is that the tomb or mosque should be in existance prior to burying an individual. So by this argument itself, it becomes permissible to construct a tomb first and then later shift a persons body inside the tomb or even within a masjid.

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, died on Monday and was buried on Tuesday and people prayed over him individually with no one leading them. Some pople said that he would be buried near the mimbar, and others said that he would be buried in al-Baqi. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq came and said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, say, ‘No prophet was ever buried except in the place where he died.’ “So a grave was dug for him there. When he was about to be washed they wished to take off his shirt but they heard a voice saying “Don’t take off his shirt,” so they did not take off his shirt and he was washed with it on (Muwatta Malik, Book#16, Hadith#16.10.27)

Infact, this opinion of the companions to bury near the mimber is another explicit proof of the legality of burying within the masjid itself (not just within a house or structure) as the mimber was surely inside the masjid.

Furthermore, the action of sahabah to bury the two khalifas Abu Bakr(radiAllahu anhu) and Umar(radiAllahu anhu) within the structure proves that this was not a exception nor restricted to the Prophet(ﷺ).

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