مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الجنائزBook of Funerals
في نبش القبورExhuming graves (transferring to another place)
Hadith 12469
١٢٤٦٩ - حدثنا (ابن) (١) علية عن حبيب بن (الشهيد) (٢) عن ابن سيرين أن زيد ابن ثابت استأذن عثمان في نبش قبور كانت في مسجد النبي ﷺ فأذن له فنبشها وأخرجها من المسجد، قال: وإنما (كانت) (٣) تركت في المسجد لأنه كان في ⦗٢٤٦⦘ (أرقاء) (٤) الناس قلة (٥).
Hazrat Ibn Sirin narrates that Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit sought permission from Hazrat Usman to exhume the graves that were in Masjid Nabawi (peace and blessings be upon him), and he granted him permission. So he dug up those graves and removed them from the mosque (and buried them elsewhere), and those graves had been left in the mosque because there was very little soft land available for people.
