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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب المناسكThe Rites of Hajj (Kitab Al-Manasik Wal-Hajj)
باب زِيَارَةِ الْقُبُورِChapter: Visiting Graves.
Hadith 2042
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ، قَرَأْتُ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ ، أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَا تَجْعَلُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ قُبُورًا ، وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا قَبْرِي عِيدًا ، وَصَلُّوا عَلَيَّ ، فَإِنَّ صَلَاتَكُمْ تَبْلُغُنِي حَيْثُ كُنْتُمْ " .
Narrated Abu Hurairah: 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.
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Brief Explanation
1؎: That is, do not abandon performing prayer and worship in it, lest you become like the dead within it. From this, it is understood that any house in which prayer and worship are not performed is like a graveyard.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
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To make homes like graveyards means to abandon acts such as prayer, recitation, and remembrance (adhkar) there, just as these are not performed in graveyards.
In this, men are especially emphasized:
That they should perform a portion of their prayers—that is, the Sunnah and voluntary (nafl) prayers—at home, which becomes a means for the descent of blessings.
And it also serves as encouragement and training in good deeds for the household.
Its second meaning could also be:
Do not bury your deceased in your homes, rather, bury them in the graveyard.
➋
To gather in crowds, create congestion, stand for a long time, or repeatedly come to the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), making it a place of festivity, is prohibited and extremely disrespectful.
If this is the etiquette regarding the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), then, all the more so, gatherings and festivals (urs) at the graves of other righteous people are prohibited and unlawful.
➌
There is no need to undertake the hardship of travel to send salutations and peace (salat wa salam) upon the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); wherever a person may be, his salutations are conveyed to him (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).
➊
To make homes like graveyards means to abandon acts such as prayer, recitation, and remembrance (adhkar) there, just as these are not performed in graveyards.
In this, men are especially emphasized:
That they should perform a portion of their prayers—that is, the Sunnah and voluntary (nafl) prayers—at home, which becomes a means for the descent of blessings.
And it also serves as encouragement and training in good deeds for the household.
Its second meaning could also be:
Do not bury your deceased in your homes, rather, bury them in the graveyard.
➋
To gather in crowds, create congestion, stand for a long time, or repeatedly come to the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), making it a place of festivity, is prohibited and extremely disrespectful.
If this is the etiquette regarding the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), then, all the more so, gatherings and festivals (urs) at the graves of other righteous people are prohibited and unlawful.
➌
There is no need to undertake the hardship of travel to send salutations and peace (salat wa salam) upon the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); wherever a person may be, his salutations are conveyed to him (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 2042
