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within and art of bidfiah. If such a person intentionally requests
(something from) the corpse (the inhabitant of the grave), then

that deed is shirk akbar (major shirk).
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15. What is also obligatory for a Muslim to be careful of is the

impermissibility of fiibādah at the side (site) of a grave; by

means of carrying out ṣalāt, dufiā√, slaughtering an animal,
making an oath or reading Al Qur√ān and similar such fiibādah.

There is not one single ṣaḥīḥ explanation or clarification from

the Messenger of Allāh  and his Ṣaḥābat  that they carried
out fiibādah at the site of a grave. Moreover, the dangers are

harsh for a person who undertakes fiibādah at the site of the

grave of a righteous person, whether ‘he’ was a walīy or a
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Prophet, and even more so if ‘he’ was not a righteous person.
The Prophet  sternly warned those people who made graves,
sites of fiibādah. The Messenger of Allāh  said:

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دﻮﻬـﻴْ
. ﺪﺟﺎﺴﻣ ﻢﻬﺋﺎﻴﺒﻧ َأ رﻮﺒـﻗ اوﺬﲣا ىرﺎﺼﱠﻨﻟاو ِ َُ ﻟا ﻰَ َ ﻠﻋ ِ ﻪﻠﻟا ﺔﻨﻌَ ﻟ
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َ
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َ َ
َ َ َ
“Allāh curses the Jews and Christians (because) they have made
the graves of their Prophets into places of worship”.
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167 Taṣḥīḥud-Dufiā√, pp. 100-114 – Shaikh Bakr bin fiAbdullāh Abū Zaid.
168 Fatḥul Majīd Sharḥ Kitābit-Tauḥīd chapter 18: “Because of the disbelief of the children of
Ādam and their cessation from their religion is because of Ghulūw (excessiveness) towards
righteous people”. In chapter 19: “Harsh warnings (are given) to a person who performs
fiibādah to Allāh at the site of a righteous persons grave, so what if ‘he’ worshipped ‘him’?!”
Written by Shaikh fiAbdur-Raḥmān bin Ḥasan Ālush-Shaikh, died 1285 H, taḥqīq DR. Walid
bin fiAbdur-Raḥman bin Muḥammad Ālu Furayyān.
169 Narrated by Al Bukhārī 435, 1330, 1390, 3453, 4441, Muslim 531, Aḥmad I/218, VI/21,
34, 80, 255, from fiĀ√ishah .
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