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سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الجنائزChapters: Regarding Funerals
بَابُ : مَا جَاءَ فِي النَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمَشْيِ عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَالْجُلُوسِ عَلَيْهَاChapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of walking or sitting on graves
Hadith 1566
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ تُحْرِقُهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ " .
´It was narrated from Abu Hurairah said:` The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “If one of you were to sit on a live coal that burns him, that would be better for him than if he were to 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
