Awliya-Grave Praying

“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)

Awliya adab

It is related that Anas said, “When the Prophet, ﷺ, came to Madina, he stopped at ‘Awali al-Madina in an area lived in by a clan called the Banu ‘Amr ibn ‘Awf. The Prophet, ﷺ, stayed among them for fourteen nights. Then he sent for the Banu’n-Najjar who came with their swords girded on. It is as if I could see them now, the Prophet, ﷺ, on his camel and Abu Bakr riding behind him with the Banu’n-Najjar all gathered around him, continuing until he arrived at the courtyard of Abu Ayyub. He liked to pray wherever he was when the prayer time came. He would even pray in sheepfolds. He ordered the mosque to be built and sent for some of the Banu’n-Najjar saying, ‘Banu’n-Najjar, tell me the price of this walled garden of yours.’ They said, ‘No, by Allah! We ask for no payment except from Allah!“Anas said, “The place I am telling you about contained pagan graves and some ruins and also some palm-trees. The Prophet, ﷺ, ordered the graves of the pagans to be dug up and the ruins to be levelled and the palm-trees to be cut down. The palm trunks were lined up to form the mosque’s*qibla*and its two sides walls were made of stone. They used to recite rhyming verses while carrying the stones. And the Prophet was with them saying:‘O Allah, there is no good except the good of the Next World*so grant forgiveness to the Ansar and the Muhajirun.'” [Sahih al Bukhari, hadith no. 418]

The Sahabi Usama ibn Zayd was known to pray next to the noble grave of the Prophet ﷺ [ Imam Ahmad (5:202 #20769), Ibn Hibban (12:506 #5694), Tabarani (M. Kabir, 1:166 #405)]

Sayyida A’isha used to pray regularly in her room, which used to contain the Prophet’s ﷺ blessed grave [Recorded by Bukhari (#3303), Muslim (#5325), Abu Dawud (3:320 #3169))

Aisha(radiAllahu anha) narrated those reports regarding the curse against the Jews and Christians, and her actions are therefore best explanation for its meaning.

“O Allah! Do not make my grave an idol that is worshipped.” (Muwatta Imam Malik, Book#9, Hadith#9.24.88)

But if what is meant by having a “masjid built over them” is instead to have a grave connected to or in the vicinity of a masjid or a masjid complex, then there are no hadiths that prohibit this. The burden of proof lies upon the claimant to bring proof for any such sort of prohibition.

The legality of having a tomb connected to the mosque comes from the ijma of the salaf with regards to the grave of the Prophet(ﷺ), which was buried in the room of Ayesha (radiAllahu anha). This room of Ayesha was connected to the mosque. Moreover, the ijma of salaf also existed in including the room as part or within the expanded structure of the mosque.

The actions of the salaf instead shows that they on the contrary rebuilded and expanded the structure

Shaykh Ali Jumah summarized the incident as follows:”In the year 88 A.H., Al-Walid Ibn Abd al-Malik issued orders to the governor of Medina at that time, ‘Umar Ibn Abd al-‘Aziz, to include the room where the Prophet was buried within the premises of the mosque itself. Scholars from among the seven scholars of Medina approved of this and none of them objected except Sa’id Ibn al-Musaib. He only protested because he wanted to preserve the Prophet’s quarters to serve as an example for Muslims to become acquainted with the living conditions of the Prophet and thereby renounce worldly pleasures not because he maintained the prohibition of praying in a mosque containing a grave.”

Musa ibn ‘Uqba (d. 141H) recorded –in his Maghazi with a Sahih chain (Also recorded by Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr in his Isti’ab, Ibn Ishaq in his Sira, and others.) – that when one of the Sahaba (Abu Basir) died, a masjid was built over his grave in the presence of 300 Companions. This was towards the end of the Prophet’s earthly life, when the Sahaba were far away from the risk of shirk.

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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