What it is disliked to pray towards and in

It is narrated from Yahya bin Umarah al-Mazini that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The whole earth is fit for prayer, except that prayer is not to be performed in the graveyard and the bathhouse."

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw me praying facing a grave. He began saying: "O Anas, the grave (qabr)!" I raised my head and began looking at the qamar (the moon), and the people said: "He is talking about the grave."

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw me praying facing a grave, and he said: "There is a grave in front of you," and he forbade me from praying facing a grave.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Do not pray facing a toilet, a bathhouse or a grave.

Al-Hasan al-Urani said: Prayer may be performed everywhere except a toilet, a bathhouse and a graveyard.

Al-Musayyab and Khaythamah said: Prayer is not to be performed facing the wall of a bathhouse, nor in the middle of a graveyard.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) used to regard it as disliked that a mosque be built between graves.

Ibrahim said: When the predecessors went out with a funeral and the time of prayer came, they would move away from the graves and then pray.

Ibrahim said: The predecessors disliked three rooms as a qiblah (to face in prayer): a toilet, a graveyard and a bathhouse.

Ibn Sirin regarded praying facing graves as disliked, and he said: "(It is) a house of fire."

Al-Hasan said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarded praying between graves as disliked.

Al-Hasan said: If the time of prayer comes upon a man in a graveyard, he should pray.

And Ibn Sirin said: He should go back.

Makhul used to regard prayer in graveyards as disliked.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) regarded it as disliked that the funeral prayer be performed in the graveyard.

Al-Aswad bin Shayban said: I saw Musa bin Anas pray the Asr prayer in the grave of his brother al-Nadr bin Anas, when a trench had been dug for him in the middle of the grave.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Prayer is not to be performed facing a toilet, a bathhouse or a graveyard.