Question:
What is the authenticity of the ḥadīth: “Whoever performs Ḥajj and does not visit my grave has shown disloyalty to me”?
Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
Answer:
All narrations with this wording or of similar meaning are weak (ḍaʿīf) and unreliable. The statements of the scholars on this issue are as follows:
❀ Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله (d. 728H) said:
“All the narrations mentioned regarding the visitation of the Prophet’s ﷺ grave are weak, rather fabricated.”
(Al-Radd ʿalā al-Bakrī: 253)
❀ ʿAllāmah Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī رحمه الله (d. 744H) wrote:
“The objector (al-Subkī) mentioned more than ten narrations on this issue, but none of them is authentic. All are weak and feeble; some so severely weak that the scholars and ḥuffāẓ have declared them fabricated. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله also pointed this out.”
(Al-Ṣārim al-Munkī fī al-Radd ʿalā al-Subkī: 21)
❀ Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar رحمه الله (d. 852H) said:
“All the chains of this ḥadīth are weak.”
(Al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr: 2/267)
❀ Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī رحمه الله (d. 748H) stated:
“The narrations regarding this matter are weak but they support one another, as none of their narrators has been accused of lying.”
(Tārīkh al-Islām: 11/213)
❀ Ḥāfiẓ al-Sakhāwī رحمه الله (d. 902H) wrote:
“Similarly, al-Dhahabī رحمه الله said: all its chains are weak, yet they strengthen one another, since none of the narrators have been accused of falsehood.”
(Al-Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah: 1/647)
Summary:
The ḥadīth ‘Whoever performs Ḥajj and does not visit my grave has shown disloyalty to me’ is not authentic. All its chains are weak, and some are even fabricated, as stated by leading scholars of ḥadīth.
What is the authenticity of the ḥadīth: “Whoever performs Ḥajj and does not visit my grave has shown disloyalty to me”?
Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
Answer:
All narrations with this wording or of similar meaning are weak (ḍaʿīf) and unreliable. The statements of the scholars on this issue are as follows:
❀ Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله (d. 728H) said:
“All the narrations mentioned regarding the visitation of the Prophet’s ﷺ grave are weak, rather fabricated.”
(Al-Radd ʿalā al-Bakrī: 253)❀ ʿAllāmah Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī رحمه الله (d. 744H) wrote:
“The objector (al-Subkī) mentioned more than ten narrations on this issue, but none of them is authentic. All are weak and feeble; some so severely weak that the scholars and ḥuffāẓ have declared them fabricated. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله also pointed this out.”
(Al-Ṣārim al-Munkī fī al-Radd ʿalā al-Subkī: 21)❀ Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar رحمه الله (d. 852H) said:
“All the chains of this ḥadīth are weak.”
(Al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr: 2/267)❀ Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī رحمه الله (d. 748H) stated:
“The narrations regarding this matter are weak but they support one another, as none of their narrators has been accused of lying.”
(Tārīkh al-Islām: 11/213)❀ Ḥāfiẓ al-Sakhāwī رحمه الله (d. 902H) wrote:
“Similarly, al-Dhahabī رحمه الله said: all its chains are weak, yet they strengthen one another, since none of the narrators have been accused of falsehood.”
(Al-Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah: 1/647)Summary:
The ḥadīth ‘Whoever performs Ḥajj and does not visit my grave has shown disloyalty to me’ is not authentic. All its chains are weak, and some are even fabricated, as stated by leading scholars of ḥadīth.
