31st-32nd Lesson from the Book of Tawheed by Shaykhul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab

بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾From the commentary on the Book of Tawheed by Shaykhul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab may Allaah have mercy on him, 31st-32nd, Lesson,◾

By our Shaykh, the 'Allāmah, the Trustworthy Advisor, Abu 'Abdirrahmān Yahya bin 'Ali Al-Hajūri - may Allāh preserve him - on the 24th, Rajab, 1443H

Chapter: What has come from the severity of the one who worships Allaah at the grave of a righteous man, so how about if they worshipped him?

And in the two Sahihs from Ā'ishah: That Umm Salimah mentioned to the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ a church she saw in the Land of Habasha and what was in it of pictures, so he said: "Those ones if a righteous man or slave amongst them died they built a Masjid over his grave, and placed in it those pictures; They are the worst of people with Allaah."

So those ones combined between two Fitnas: The Fitnah of graves and the Fitnah of statues.

And they (reported) from her, she said: When (death) approached the Prophet ﷺ, he began to place a thowb of his over his face, so if he became distressed by it he uncovered it, so he said -: While he was like that - "May Allaah curse the Jews and Christians, they took the graves of their Prophets as Masaajid." - He was warning from their action -, and had it not been for that, he would of exposed his grave, except that he feared that it be taken as a Masjid."

[Reported by Bukhaari and Muslim]

And from Muslim from Jundub bin Abdillaah, he said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ before he died by five: "I free myself to Allāh from having a Khaleel (intimate friend) from amongst you. For indeed Allaah has taken me as a Khaleel just as he has taken Ibraaheem as a Khaleel. And had I taken a Khaleel from amongst my ummah, I would of taken Abaa Bakr as a Khaleel. Is it not indeed that those before you used to take the graves of their Prophets as Masaajid; So do not take the graves as Masaajid, for indeed I prohibit you from that ." 

For indeed he prohibited from it during the last part of his life. Then he cursed - and it was in the context of - the one doing it. And praying next to it is from that even if they don't build a Masjid, for verily the Sahaabah didn't build next to his grave a Masjid, and every place which Salaah is intended in it is called a Masjid, as the Prophet ﷺ said: "The Earth has been made a for me a Masjid and purification."

And to Ahmed with a Jayyid chain of narration from Ibn Mas'ood may Allaah be pleased with him Marfoo': "Verily from the worst of people are those who the hour is established while they are alive, and those who take the graves as Masaajid."

[Reported by Abu Haatim in his Sahih]

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