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Sahih Muslim 972a

Prohibition against sitting and praying on graves

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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مَرْثَدٍ الْغَنَوِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَلاَ تُصَلُّوا إِلَيْهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Ḥujr al-Saʿdī
  2. al-Walīd b. Muslim
  3. Ibn Jābir
  4. Busr b. ʿUbaydullāh
  5. Wāthilah
  6. Abū Marthad al-Ghanawī
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Do not sit on the graves and do not pray facing towards them.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 1050لاَ تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَلاَ تُصَلُّوا إِلَيْهَا
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1698وَعَنْ أَبِي مَرْثَدٍ الْغَنَوِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَلَا تُصَلُّوا إِلَيْهَا». رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 3229لاَ تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَلاَ تُصَلُّوا إِلَيْهَا

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 972bSunan Abi Dawud 3228Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1051Musnad Ahmad 8108Musnad Ahmad 9732

Narrators

  1. Kannāz b. al-Ḥuṣayn al-Ghanawī
    a Companion, a veteran of Badrd. 12 AH, or at Ajnādayn in the time of Abū Bakr
    كَنَّاز بْن الحُصَيْن الغَنَوِيصحابي ، بدري
    عن
  2. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ al-Laythī
    a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AH
    وَاثِلَةَصحابي مشهور
    عن
  3. Busr b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥaḍramī
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    بُسْرِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة حافظ
    عن
  4. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Jābir
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AH
    ابْنِ جَابِرٍثقة
    عن
  5. al-Walīd b. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
    الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
    حدثنا
  6. ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, also said: 241 AH, also said: 243 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّثقة حافظ
    حدثني
  7. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)

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