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Are we allowed to pray in a mosque while the immediate vicinity is a graveyard.

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Assalumualaikum w.b. Are we allowed to pray in a mosque while the immediate vicinity is a graveyard. Im asking this because i`ve heard that there is forbidden to pray at those areas. If this is so could u please supply the surah or hadith as proof. Im having doubts as the nearest mosque to my work place is one where it is just next to a graveyard. so this is the mosque that i frequent for my friday prayers. Hope to get your reply soon enough before this friday

 

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Pray in Mosque next to graveyard

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Aishah reports that the Prophet (saws) said: "Allah cursed the Jews and Christians [because] they took the graves of their Prophets as mosques."

Related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad, and an-Nasai.

 

Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi reported that the Prophet (saws) said: "Do not pray facing a grave and do not sit on one."

Related by Muslim and Ahmad.

 

Jundub ibn 'Abdullah al-Bajali heard the Prophet say, five days before he died: "The people before you took graves as mosques. I prohibit this to you."

Related by Muslim and Ahmad.

 

Aishah reports that Umm Salamah mentioned the churches she saw in Abyssinia and the pictures they contained to the Messenger of Allah (saws). The Prophet (saws) said to her: "These are the people who, when a pious servant or pious man among them dies, build a mosque [place of worship] upon their graves and put those pictures in it. They are the worst of the whole creation in the Sight of Allah."

Related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, and an-Nasai.

 

Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 492 Narrated by Sa'id

The Prophet (saws) said: ‘The whole earth is a place of prayer (masjid) except public baths and graveyards.’

 

Your Question: Are we allowed to pray in a mosque while the immediate vicinity is a graveyard. Im asking this because i`ve heard that there is forbidden to pray at those areas.

In light of the above quoted authentic ahaadeeths of the Messenger of Allah (saws), it is considered prohibited to offer prayers in a graveyard.

 

But if the believers have constructed and assigned a mosque in the vicinity of or outside a graveyard, there is absolutely no harm in offering prayers in such mosques.

 

But if the mosque contains a grave or graves, or the mosque is built amidst graves or the mosque is in the graveyard itself, then it would neither be permissible for believers who sincerely fear Allah and the Last Day to build such mosques nor offer prayers in them.

 

Most graveyards in muslim nations and communities today have a masjid built near them to accommodate the easy burial of the deceased, but these mosques are built distinctly outside the graveyards; thus there is absolutely no harm in offering prayers in such mosques.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

 

Burhan

 


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