Tirmidhi

Hadith Commentary:

Benefits and Issues:
➊ Not performing prayer in homes renders them like graveyards, which are cities of the silent and lack the bustle of worldly life.
➋ In Surah al-Baqarah, the schemes of Satan have been explained.
➌ And a remedy to protect oneself from them has been prescribed.
➍ Therefore, it has this special quality that if it is recited thoughtfully and one strives to act upon it, Satan does not get the opportunity to enter a person’s life.
➎ And just as Satan flees in panic upon hearing the call to prayer (adhan),
➏ He also recoils and runs away from the recitation of Surah al-Baqarah, and does not find the courage or resolve to gain dominance over a person.

Benefits and Issues:
➊
To make homes like graveyards means to abandon acts such as prayer, recitation, and remembrance (adhkar) there, just as these are not performed in graveyards.
In this, men are especially emphasized:
That they should perform a portion of their prayers—that is, the Sunnah and voluntary (nafl) prayers—at home, which becomes a means for the descent of blessings.
And it also serves as encouragement and training in good deeds for the household.
Its second meaning could also be:
Do not bury your deceased in your homes, rather, bury them in the graveyard.

➋
To gather in crowds, create congestion, stand for a long time, or repeatedly come to the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), making it a place of festivity, is prohibited and extremely disrespectful.
If this is the etiquette regarding the blessed grave of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), then, all the more so, gatherings and festivals (urs) at the graves of other righteous people are prohibited and unlawful.

➌
There is no need to undertake the hardship of travel to send salutations and peace (salat wa salam) upon the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); wherever a person may be, his salutations are conveyed to him (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).