Question:
Our city is very famous for its saints and spiritual leaders. Their devotees and followers travel hundreds of miles to bury their deceased in our city’s cemetery, leaving their own village or city graveyards. Along with burying one deceased, they also create several dummy graves, intending to bury more deceased there in the future. Is this practice permissible? (Riaz Ahmed, Taunsa Sharif)
Answer:
According to the Sunnah, it is established that the deceased should be buried in the same area where they passed away.
It is narrated from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him):"We were lifting the martyrs of Uhud to bury them in Jannat al-Baqi when a caller announced that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commands that the martyrs be buried at the site of their death."
[Sunan Abi Dawood: 3165, Tirmidhi: 1717, and he said: Hasan Sahih, Nasai: 4/79, Ibn Majah: 1516]
Ibn al-Jarud (553), Ibn Hibban (774, 775), and Ibn Khuzaymah have declared this narration as authentic. Its narrator, Nabih al-Anzi, is reliable. See:
[Books of Rijal and Nail al-Maqsud 1533]
When Abdulrahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was brought from afar and buried in Mecca, Umm al-Mu'minin Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "If I had been present (there), Abdulrahman would have been buried where he passed away."
[Sunan Tirmidhi Hadith 1055, Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 3/517 Hadith 6535 and its chain is authentic and the wording is his]
There are other similar narrations. See:
[Al-Sunan al-Kubra by Bayhaqi, vol. 4, p. 57]and others.(Shahadat, July 1999)
Our city is very famous for its saints and spiritual leaders. Their devotees and followers travel hundreds of miles to bury their deceased in our city’s cemetery, leaving their own village or city graveyards. Along with burying one deceased, they also create several dummy graves, intending to bury more deceased there in the future. Is this practice permissible? (Riaz Ahmed, Taunsa Sharif)
Answer:
According to the Sunnah, it is established that the deceased should be buried in the same area where they passed away.
It is narrated from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him):"We were lifting the martyrs of Uhud to bury them in Jannat al-Baqi when a caller announced that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commands that the martyrs be buried at the site of their death."
[Sunan Abi Dawood: 3165, Tirmidhi: 1717, and he said: Hasan Sahih, Nasai: 4/79, Ibn Majah: 1516]
Ibn al-Jarud (553), Ibn Hibban (774, 775), and Ibn Khuzaymah have declared this narration as authentic. Its narrator, Nabih al-Anzi, is reliable. See:
[Books of Rijal and Nail al-Maqsud 1533]
When Abdulrahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was brought from afar and buried in Mecca, Umm al-Mu'minin Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "If I had been present (there), Abdulrahman would have been buried where he passed away."
[Sunan Tirmidhi Hadith 1055, Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 3/517 Hadith 6535 and its chain is authentic and the wording is his]
There are other similar narrations. See:
[Al-Sunan al-Kubra by Bayhaqi, vol. 4, p. 57]and others.(Shahadat, July 1999)