Sahih al-Bukhari 428
Is it permissible to dig the graves of pagans of the period of Ignorance, and to use that place as a mosque?
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ عَنْ أَبِي التَّيَّاحِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ
قَدِمَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ، فَنَزَلَ أَعْلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فِي حَىٍّ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ بَنُو عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، فَأَقَامَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِيهِمْ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ لَيْلَةً، ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ إِلَى بَنِي النَّجَّارِ، فَجَاءُوا مُتَقَلِّدِي السُّيُوفِ، كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ رِدْفُهُ، وَمَلأُ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ حَوْلَهُ، حَتَّى أَلْقَى بِفِنَاءِ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ. وَكَانَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ حَيْثُ أَدْرَكَتْهُ الصَّلاَةُ، وَيُصَلِّي فِي مَرَابِضِ الْغَنَمِ. وَأَنَّهُ أَمَرَ بِبِنَاءِ الْمَسْجِدِ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى مَلإٍ مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ، فَقَالَ: «يَا بَنِي النَّجَّارِ، ثَامِنُونِي بِحَائِطِكُمْ هَذَا». قَالُوا: لاَ وَاللَّهِ، لاَ نَطْلُبُ ثَمَنَهُ إِلاَّ إِلَى اللَّهِ. فَقَالَ أَنَسٌ: فَكَانَ فِيهِ مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: قُبُورُ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَفِيهِ خَرِبٌ، وَفِيهِ نَخْلٌ. فَأَمَرَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِقُبُورِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَنُبِشَتْ، ثُمَّ بِالْخَرِبِ فَسُوِّيَتْ، وَبِالنَّخْلِ فَقُطِعَ، فَصَفُّوا النَّخْلَ قِبْلَةَ الْمَسْجِدِ، وَجَعَلُوا عِضَادَتَيْهِ الْحِجَارَةَ، وَجَعَلُوا يَنْقُلُونَ الصَّخْرَ وَهُمْ يَرْتَجِزُونَ، وَالنَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَعَهُمْ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: «اللَّهُمَّ لاَ خَيْرَ إِلاَّ خَيْرُ الآخِرَهْ، فَاغْفِرْ لِلأَنْصَارِ وَالْمُهَاجِرَهْ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿAbd al-Wārith
- Abū al-Tayyāḥ
- Anas
✧ The Prophet ﷺ came to Medina and stayed in the upper part of Medina, in a neighborhood called Banu Amr ibn Awf. The Prophet ﷺ remained among them for fourteen nights, then he sent for Banu al-Najjar, and they came with their swords strapped on. It is as if I can see the Prophet ﷺ on his mount, with Abu Bakr riding behind him and the notables of Banu al-Najjar around him, until he dismounted in the courtyard of Abu Ayyub. He liked to pray wherever the prayer overtook him, and he would pray in the sheepfolds. He then ordered that the mosque be built, so he sent for a group of the notables of Banu al-Najjar and said: "O Banu al-Najjar, name me a price for this walled garden of yours." They said: No, by Allah, we seek its price only from Allah. Anas said: It contained what I am telling you: graves of the polytheists, ruins, and palm trees. So the Prophet ﷺ ordered that the graves of the polytheists be dug up, then that the ruins be leveled, and that the palm trees be cut down. They arranged the palm trunks toward the qiblah of the mosque and made its two side-posts of stone. They began carrying the rocks while chanting rajaz verses, and the Prophet ﷺ was with them, saying: "O Allah, there is no good except the good of the Hereafter, so forgive the Ansar and the Muhajirah."
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 493Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 1613al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4363al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4364al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4427Musnad Abi Ya'la 4180
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 128 AH, or: 130 AH.أَبِي التَّيَّاحِثقة ثبت .عن
- trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AHعَبْدُ الْوَارِثِثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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