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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الجنائزFunerals (Kitab Al-Janaiz)
باب فِي كَرَاهِيَةِ الْقُعُودِ عَلَى الْقَبْرِChapter: It Is Disliked To Sit On Graves.
Hadith 3228
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا سُهَيْلُ بْنُ أَبِي صَالِحٍ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتَحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ حَتَّى تَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ ، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ " .
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: It is better that one of you should sit on the live coals which burns his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave.
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Explanation & Benefits
Hafiz Muhammad Ameen
For details, see Hadith: 2030.
Source: Sunan Nasa'i: Translation and Benefits by Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Amin Hafizullah, Page: 2046
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary: Benefits and Issues:
This last narration is explicit evidence that the gesture with the hands, which was likened to the tails of unruly horses, refers to the gesture made at the time of concluding the prayer (salam), and it has no connection to the raising of the hands (raf‘ al-yadayn) during bowing (ruku‘).
Saeed Sahib himself has translated it as: "When we would conclude the prayer with salam, we would say 'as-salamu ‘alaykum' with a gesture of the hands." (Sharh Muslim: 1/1229)
When any one of you intends to conclude the prayer with salam, he should turn towards his companion and not gesture with his hand.
This (fa-nazara ilayna Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)
is the result and explanation of this. Despite this, with great audacity, it has been claimed that this hadith is clear evidence for the Hanafi school that the command for raising the hands before and after bowing (ruku‘) was an initial instruction,
and later the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam abrogated it.
(Sharh Sahih Muslim: 1/1230)
Why did the raising of the hands (raf‘ al-yadayn) with the opening takbir (takbir tahrimah) remain exempt from abrogation?
This last narration is explicit evidence that the gesture with the hands, which was likened to the tails of unruly horses, refers to the gesture made at the time of concluding the prayer (salam), and it has no connection to the raising of the hands (raf‘ al-yadayn) during bowing (ruku‘).
Saeed Sahib himself has translated it as: "When we would conclude the prayer with salam, we would say 'as-salamu ‘alaykum' with a gesture of the hands." (Sharh Muslim: 1/1229)
When any one of you intends to conclude the prayer with salam, he should turn towards his companion and not gesture with his hand.
This (fa-nazara ilayna Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)
is the result and explanation of this. Despite this, with great audacity, it has been claimed that this hadith is clear evidence for the Hanafi school that the command for raising the hands before and after bowing (ruku‘) was an initial instruction,
and later the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam abrogated it.
(Sharh Sahih Muslim: 1/1230)
Why did the raising of the hands (raf‘ al-yadayn) with the opening takbir (takbir tahrimah) remain exempt from abrogation?
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 971
