Sharh Riyad as-Saliheen by Ibn Uthaymeen — Volume 4 (شرح رياض الصالحين) — Page 743

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بَابُ تَحْرِيمِ الْجُلُوسِ عَلَى قَبْرٍ.

(from previous page) ⟵ And look: The commentary on Sahih Muslim by our honorable Sheikh, the commentator, may Allah Almighty have mercy on him, Chapter on the prohibition of sitting on a grave.

أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرِ الْمُسْلِمِ، وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ فَلْيَجْلِسْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ الْقَبْرِ، وَيَجْعَلِ الْقَبْرَ خَلْفَ ظَهْرِهِ أَوْ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ أَوْ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ، وَأَمَّا أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَيْهِ فَهَذَا حَرَامٌ.

One should not sit on a Muslim's grave. If a person needs to sit, they should do so behind the grave, keeping it behind their back, to their right, or to their left. Sitting directly on the grave is forbidden.

وَضِدُّ ذَلِكَ الْغُلُوُّ فِي الْقُبُورِ؛ وَلِهَذَا نَهَى أَنْ يُحَصَّصَ الْقَبْرُ، وَأَنْ يُبْنَى عَلَيْهِ، وَأَنْ يُكْتَبَ عَلَيْهِ؛ لِأَنَّ تَجْصِيصَهُ يَعْنِي تَفْخِيمَهُ، وَتَعْظِيمُهُ يُؤَدِّي إِلَى الشِّرْكِ بِهِ، وَكَذَلِكَ الْبِنَاءُ عَلَيْهِ، فَالتَّجْصِيصُ حَرَامٌ، وَالْبِنَاءُ أَشَدُّ حُرْمَةً، وَالْكِتَابَةُ عَلَيْهِ فِيهَا تَفْصِيلٌ:

The opposite of this is excessive veneration of graves. For this reason, plastering, building upon, or writing on a grave is prohibited. Plastering is a form of aggrandizement, and such reverence leads to polytheism, as does building structures over them. Plastering is forbidden, building is even more strictly forbidden, and the matter of writing on graves requires clarification.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (20 verbs · 38 nouns)

• جَلَسَ — to sit
• أَرَادَ — to want
• جَعَلَ — to place
• بَابٌ — chapter
• تَحْرِيمٌ — prohibition
• جُلُوسٌ — sitting