Hadith 5815

حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ ، عَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ ، أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ ، وَعَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ ، قَالَا : لَمَّا نَزَلَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ طَفِقَ يَطْرَحُ خَمِيصَةً لَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ ، فَإِذَا اغْتَمَّ كَشَفَهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهِ ، فَقَالَ وَهُوَ كَذَلِكَ " لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى اتَّخَذُوا ، قُبُورَ أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ مَسَاجِدَ يُحَذِّرُ مَا صَنَعُوا " .
Narrated `Aisha and `Abdullah bin `Abbas: When the disease of Allah's Apostle got aggravated, he covered his face with a Khamisa, but when he became short of breath, he would remove it from his face and say, "It is like that! May Allah curse the Jews Christians because they took the graves of their prophets as places of worship." By that he warned his follower of imitating them, by doing that which they did.
Hadith Reference صحيح البخاري / كتاب اللباس / 5815
Hadith Grading محدثین: أحاديث صحيح البخاريّ كلّها صحيحة
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Dawood Raz
Hadith Commentary:
Even more wretched than the Jews and Christians are those Muslims who have adorned the graves of saints and dervishes, turning them into shops, and there they make people prostrate and present petitions, hang requests, and offer votive offerings.
These people perform these acts from outside the grave, while those saints inside the graves send curses upon them, because all these saints were followers of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and walked according to his pleasure. Indeed, these worshippers of graves are, in the sight of Allah, polytheists and accursed, no matter how much they pray or perform Hajj.
Never be among those people who deceive Allah with a prostration and the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) with a salutation.
Source: Sahih Bukhari: Commentary by Maulana Dawood Raz, Page: 5815
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
(1)
Among us, there is also a category of Muslims who, like the Jews and Christians, have adorned the graves of saints and turned them into shops. There, they make people prostrate, hang petitions, and offer votive offerings (niyaz).
These people are running their business on the grave, while the saint inside the grave is sending curses upon them.
Such people are accursed in the sight of Allah, even if they are pilgrims (hajis) and those who perform prayers.
(2)
Imam Bukhari rahimahullah has established from this hadith that a "khameesah"—that is, a black blanket with designs—can be used, as the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam covered himself with it in his final moments.
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 5815