Dars e Ahadith-Grave Jews Christians

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Sunan Abu Dawud: Book 20, Number 3214: 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.

Sahih Muslim, Chapter 199 Book 004, Number 2114:-Thumama b. Shafayy reported: When we were with Fadala b. ‘Ubaid in the country of the Romans at a place (known as) Rudis, a friend of ours died. Fadala b.’Ubaid ordered to prepare a grave for him and then it was levelled; and then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanding (us) to level the grave.

Sunan Al Kubra Al behaqi vol 3 page 411-And in other hadith from Sunan Al Kubra Al behaqi vol 3 page 411 it says.Fadala b. ‘Ubaid said Put off the mud from grave because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded (us) to level the grave

The fact that Prophets grave itself was elevated refutes misguided groups. Whether the top should be a mound or flat is differed based on divergent hadiths.
Sahih Bukhari – Volume 4, Book 56, Number 660: Narrated ‘Aisha and Ibn ‘Abbas: On his death-bed Allah’s Prophet put a sheet over his-face and when he felt hot, he would remove it from his face. When in that state (of putting and removing the sheet) he said, “May Allah’s Curse(lanat) be on the Jews and the Christians for they build places of worship at the graves of their prophets.” (By that) he intended to warn (the Muslim) from what they (i.e. Jews and Christians)had done.

Sahih Bukhari – Volume 4, Book 56, Hadees Number 662: Narrated Abu Said: The Prophet said, “You will follow the wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure, you too will go there.” We said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Do you mean the Jews and the Christians?” He replied, “Whom else?” (Meaning, of course, the Jews and the Christians.)

Sahih Al-Bukhair Volume 1, Book 8, Hadith # 419 Narrated ‘Aisha (RAA) Um Habiba (RAA) and Um Salama (RAA) mentioned about a church they had seen in Ethiopia in which there were pictures. They told the Prophet ﷺ about it, on which he said, “If any religious man dies amongst those people they would build Masjid(Place where Sajda )at his grave and make these pictures in it. They will be the worst creature in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection.”

Sahih Muslim Book 4, Hadith # 2116 -Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah (RAA) Rasulullah ﷺ forbade that the graves should be plastered, or they be used as sitting places (for the people), or a building should be built over them.

Sahi Muslim Book 4, Number 1083: Beware of those who preceded you and used to take the graves of their prophets and righteous men as places of worship, but you must not take graves as mosques; I forbid you to do that.

Prophet ﷺ forbade the white washing of graves, the building of structures over them, writing on then, or raising them above ground level. (Reported by Jabir in Sahih Muslim Eng. Trans. Vol. 2 hadith no. 2116, Sunan Abu Dawud vol. 2, Hadith no. 3219 and An Nasai )

Prophet ﷺ said,’If I were to walk on hot coals or on a sword, or if I were to mend my shoes using my feet, that would be better for me than if I were to walk on the grave of a Muslim. And it makes no difference to me if I were to relieve myself in the midst of the graves or in the middle of the market-place [i.e., both are equally bad].’” (Narrated by Ibn Maajah, 1567)

Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 414:Narrated ‘Urwa:Aisha said, “The Prophet in his fatal illness said, ‘Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians because they took the graves of their Prophets as places for praying.”‘ Aisha added, “Had it not been for that the grave of the Prophet ﷺ would have been made prominent but I am afraid it might be taken (as a) place for praying.

Dawud :: Book 10 : Hadith 2037 Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet ﷺ said: Do not make your houses graves, and do not make my grave a place of festivity. But invoke blessings on me, for your blessings reach me wherever you may be.

Sahih Muslim Book 7 ,Number 3099: Allah’s Messenger ﷺ saying: Do not set out(Safar karo) on a journey (for religious devotion) but for the three mosques-for this mosque of mine (at Medina) the Sacred Mosque (at Mecca), and the Mosque al-Aqsa (Bait al-Maqdis)

Sahih Muslim Book 4, Number 2115:-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 Messenger ﷺ 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 .its referring to graves of mushrikeen.

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 5963 -Narrated by Abu Bakr-When Allah’s Messenger ﷺ died the people disagreed about his burial, and Abu Bakr said he had heard something from Allah’s Messenger. He had said, “Allah takes a Prophet’s life only in the place where he wishes to be buried.” So he told them to bury him where his bedding lay.

Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3159-Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah-On the day of Uhud we brought the martyrs to bury them (at another place), but the crier of the Prophet ﷺ came and said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has commanded you to bury the martyrs at the place where they fell.’ So we took them back.

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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