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“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

“The area between my grave and my minbar is a garden from the gardens of paradise.” (Bukhari (Tarikh Kabir, 1:392), Imam Ahmad (3:64), Abu Ya’la (2:496 #1341), Nasa’i (Sunan Kubra, 2:489), Bayhaqi (Sunan5:246, Shu’ab#4163))

Ibn Hazm(d.1064) of Cordoba, in Kitab al-Muhalla(vol 5, p.133) said: “He

[sc. Muhammad(ﷺ)]

already announced the place of his grave by his word: ‘The space that lies between my grave and my minbar belongs to the garden of paradise.’ By saying that, he announced that it [sc. his grave] would be in his bayt. He did not object to his grave’s being located inside the bayt and

[therefore]

did not object to an erected building (bina qaim)[on the a grave].”

This is thereby a proof of the misguidance of the heretical groups, who wish to bring down the tomb of the Prophet(ﷺ), or wish to bury the Prophet(ﷺ) in a new location or wish to make a division between the mosque and grave and thereby with it destroy, divide or seperate the “garden of paradise” between the mimber and grave.

This is also a refutation of those who say that the location of graves have no special importance, as this hadith shows that the area besides it is a garden of paradise.

The grave of a believer is also a garden from the garden of paradise.

The grave is also a place of barakah, not just on account of the barakah emanating from the body of the Prophet (ﷺ) and his soul, but also because it is a place where the angels descend:Ka’b al-Ahbar (d. 32H.) said: “Not a day goes by without seventy thousand angels descending upon the grave of the Prophet (asws), surrounding him and sending salawat upon him until night falls.When they ascend another such group of angels take their place and do the same;until when the earth splits open before him (asws), he comes out with 70,000 angels in procession around him.” [ Recorded (with authentic chains to Ka’b ) by Darimi (1:57 #94), Bayhaqi (Shu’ab, 3:492), Ibn Mubarak in Kitab az-Zuhd(1:558), Abu Nu’aym (Hilya, 5:390), Qadi Isma’il (Fadl as-Salat, #102), and Abu’l Shaykh.]

There is consensus among the scholars of the four madhhabs that the blessed place which contains his blessed fragrant body (saws) is superior to any other place on earth… (e.g. Ibn ‘Abidin al-Hanafi, Ibn ‘Aqil al-Hanbali, Salim an-Nafrawi al-Maliki) added even superior than the Divine‘Arsh.

(Ibn ‘Abidin (Hashiya, 2:626), Tahtawi (Hashiya Maraqi Falah, p. 70). Qadi ‘Iyad (Shifa’, 2:58),

Nawawi (Majmu’, 7:389), Ibn Kathir (Bidaya, 3:205), Suyuti (Khasa’is, 2:351))

The grave of the righteous is also a place of tawassul, as the Prophets and the friends of Allah are the symbols and signs of Allah manifested on earth.

Quran encouraged travelling to see the signs of Allah: {Say, ‘Travel throughout the earth and see….}[29/20

To seek a means towards Allah: {O you who have believed, fear Allah and seek the means [of nearness] to Him}[535] and .Their presence is a means to Allah.

A supplication to Allah by their presence or through their intercession is a deed recommended in the Quran when it says:
{And if, when they wronged themselves, they had come to you, [O Muhammad], and asked forgiveness of Allah and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah Accepting of repentance and Merciful}(Quran 4/64

Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said to Abu Bakr al-Marwazi: “Let him use the Prophet as a means in his supplication to Allah.” And this is not restricted to the Prophet (ﷺ), and extends to others from the righteous.

Ibn ‘Imad al-Hanbali writes in Shadharatu ad-Dhahab in the biographical note on as-Sayyid Ahmed al-Bukhari, “His grave is visited and sought blessing through it”.

Ibrahim al-Harbi said, “Dua’ at the grave of Ma’ruf al-Karkhi is well known and is accepted.”

Ibn al- Jawzi says: “We ourselves go to Ibrahim al-Harbi’s grave and seek blessings with it.”

Ibn al Jawzi al hanbali also reported regarding the grave of Abu Ayyub al Ansari(radiAllahu anhu), who’s tomb still stands today in Turkey: “al-Waqidi said: It has reached us that the Eastern Romans visit his grave and seek rain through his intercession when they suffer from droughts.”

Imam Nawawi in his book Tadhib Asmaai wallughaat, describes the grave of Hamza(radiAllahu anhu) and Talha(radiAllahu anhu) as a place where ziyarah is done and tabaruk is taken.

Confirmed by the true vision of Aisha(radiAllahu anha): Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that A’isha,the wife of the Prophet, ﷺ, said, “I saw three moons fall into my room, and I related my vision to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. Then, when the Messenger of Allah died, ﷺ, and was buried in my house, Abu Bakr said to me, ‘This is one of your moons, and he is the best of them.’ “ (Muwatta Malik, Book#16, Hadith#16.10.30)

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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