There are many videos on youtube that have already demolished this false claim of the Wahhabis, so in reality I am not saying nothing new. I have compiled some videos from youtube below and compiled my own brief article after. Listen to this with heart, watch the videos, see the evidences. Are the Muslims who do such acts really grave worshippers? Have heart yaa ‘Abd’s of Allah
Fatimah al-Zahra and what she did at the Prophet’s ﷺ grave
Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal and his view on seeking tabarruk from graves:
Sahaabah called upon the Prophet ﷺ in his grave:
Imaam Malik makes du’a whilst facing the Prophet’s ﷺ grave:
Shaykh ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah promotes the creed of calling upon the Prophet ﷺ in his grave:
Fatimah al-Zahrah called upon the Prophet ﷺ in his grave:
Ibn Katheer mentioned the Sahaabah called upon the Prophet ﷺ in his grave
Imaam Nawawi permits calling upon the Prophet ﷺ in his grave
Imaam Ahmad allows the kissing of the Prophet’s ﷺ grave
But yet Wahhabis call whoever does these acts mushrikeen and kuffar!
Read more below
REFUTING THE CHARGE OF GRAVE WORSHIP
Wahhbi creed is clear cut about those who seek tawassul through the “dead” by calling upon them. Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab’s Nawaaqid ul-Islaam [the factors in which Wahhabis claim nullify a person’s Islam], p. 308 where Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab said:
“He who sets up intermediaries between him and Allah, calling unto them and asking them to intercede on his behalf with Allah, and putting trust in them is an infidel [i.e. a Kaafir, a disbeliever] according to the consensus of the scholars”.
This is exactly what Muslims do when we make tawassul through the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. We “call unto them” addressing him ﷺ with the vocative particle [harf an-nidaa] “Yaa Muhammad ﷺ . Wahhabis need an ‘Arabic lesson in al-Munaada .
The Wahhabi cult teaches that calling unto [du’a] to other than Allah is worship, and they misuse the hadeeth which says “du’a is worship”, so when any Sunni Muslim is caught saying “Yaa Muhammad ﷺ ” at his grave, he is then automatically accused of worshipping the Prophet ﷺ by calling unto him, thus deemed a mushrik [a pagan] for doing so.
Without any doubt, one is accused of calling unto other than Allah ﷺ and deemed a Kaafir. To demonstrate this point further then let us return to the statement of Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab’s book Nawaaqid ul-Islam, Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab said in point number two:
“Man ja’ala baynahu wa bayna Allah wa saa’itaa yad’uwhum wa yas’aluhum wa yatawakkaulu alyhim. Kafara ijmaa’a”
Now take special note that Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab used the imperfect verb “yad’u-hum” meaning “they are calling or will call upon them” this verb derives from the same root as du’a which simply means to call upon see p. 282 of the Hans Wehr ‘Arabic dictionary.
The Sahaabah addressed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ respectfully by saying “Yaa Muhammad ﷺ”, “Yaa RasulAllah ﷺ” and why? Take note of the following Qur’anic passage from Surah an-Nur [24] ayah 63:
“la taj’alu du’a ar-Rasul baynakum ka- du’a ba’dikum ba’da” Which translates as “Do not make the calling [du’a] of the Messenger between you like the calling [du’a] of each other”
Meaning address the Prophet ﷺ respectfully! This is why they used “Yaa RasulAllah” in his very lifetime out of respect. But more importantly also notice that the Allah used the word du’a!
Wahhabis make a distinction here. They argue that when the Messenger ﷺ was alive, then its permissible to call upon him [du’a] using the vocative noun “Yaa” but now he is “dead”, calling unto him [du’a] is now considered as worship, thus calling unto the Messenger ﷺ is nothing but pure shirk [i.e. idolatry].
So according to Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab, to yad’u-hum [to call upon them] by saying “Ya RasulAllah” is indeed an act that is considered by the Wahhabi’s to take one out of the fold of Islam whether you are doing tawssaul, asking for Shifaa’a or istighathah. This can be further seen by the fact Wahhabi scholar Bilal Phillips wrote in his book Fundamentals of Tawheed p. 27-28:
“The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said in no uncertain terms “prayer (du’a) is worship…If somebody prays to the Prophet, to so called saints [remember Bilal Phillips means by this calling upon them]…asking for help or asking them to request help from Allah, they have also committed shirk [i.e. they have became a Kaafir Mushrik]”
It is then clear that Wahhabis deem such tawaasul as calling upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by directly addressing him “Yaa RasulAllah” as major shirk, regardless if we are asking for help, or for them to supplicate to Allah for us.
However the big burning question here is this the stance of Muslim orthodoxy? Is this the position that the scholars of the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’a hold? Do the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah believe that it is an act of idolatry to address the Prophet ﷺ in his grave?
According to Tafseer Ibn Katheer Surah an-Nisa [4] ayah 64 it is not shirk to call upon [du’a] the Messenger ﷺ whilst he is in his grave.
Before we go to Tafseer Ibn Katheer and look at the evidence [scans available] I would like to mention that this cannot be found in the ‘Arabic versions, nor is it translated in the Dar us-Salaam versions that are published by any Wahhabi publisher. It is purposefully whitewashed for the very reason that it defies the Wahhabi creed and they cannot have that as prove against them.
So what they have done is they have put out “Saheeh Tafseer Ibn Katheer”, but when they say “Saheeh” they do not mean authentic, they mean that they have corrected Ibn Katheer’s tafseer as they deemed that what he mentioned was dalaalah [misguidance].
This is one of the many reasons many new converts remain blind to the tricks of the Wahhabi organization. I have tried to tell them they are being deceived and they need to learn ‘Arabic so they can analyze these things for themselves, but I find that many Wahhabi converts are too huffed up with pride and are too far gone to even sincerely speak too. The once sincere conversation soon turns sour.
However, it is my challenge to them to study the following in ‘Arabic and then turn to the Dar us-Salaam and ask themselves why do Wahhabis keep white washing Sunni texts which clearly display evidences against their own creed?
Let us now quote from Tafseer Ibn Katheer:
“Ataabi raltes that he was sitting at the grave of the Prophet ﷺ when an Arab came and said “As-Salaamu Alayka YAA RASULALLAH” then he quoted the related ayah about seeking forgiveness.” Tafseer Ibn Katheer, vol. 1, p. 328
Before my readership starts calling me a misleading Barelwi prentending to be a Hanbali, let us look to the Hanbali scholars and see what they have to offer.
There is no doubt to the authenticity of this narration used by Ibn Kathher as Imaam Muwaffaq ud-Deen Ibn Qudaamah al-Maqdasi also included this is his al-Mughni, vol. 3, pp. 599-601, The Shaafi Master, Imaam Nawawi also included this narration in his book al-Adhkaar pp. 218-221, The Maaliki Master Qadi Iyaad also documented this is his classical text Ash-Shifaa’a and other countless Imaams from the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah have used this as an evidence as seeking a need.
For example, the great relied upon Hanbali scholar Ibn Qudaamah al-Maqdasi wrote in his al-Wasiyyah
“When seeking for a need to be fulfilled from Allah ta’ala then perform the ablution and two units of nawafil prayer, relying on Allah ta’alaa and sending salutations on the Prophet ﷺ and say the following ….“O Allah, I ask you and turn to you by Your Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, the Prophet of Mercy. YAA MUHAMMAD!!! I turn by you to my Lord and your Lord aza wajjal for Him to settle my need for me”
Imaam Muwaffaq ud-Deen then says after quoting this du’a
“The early Muslims [i.e. the Salaf] had their needs fulfilled by saying this”
Imaam Muwaffaq ud-Deen Ibn Qudaamah’s work al-Wassiyah has been translated by Abu Ja’far al-Hanbali and is available for people to read here: and it has also been translated by Aisha Bewly.
You will also be able to find this hadeeth in Sunan at-tirmidhi and Ibn Maajah, Imaam Suyuti classified this hadeeth as saheeh in his al-Jami us-Saghir hadeeth no. 1279; and again Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal testifies to this hadeeth in his Mansik: Kash-Shaaf ul-Qinaa, vol. 2, pp. 70-73.
Now this is the interesting part, we can see from the above reference that Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal allowed tawassul through the Prophet by addressing the Prophet ﷺ in his grave with the vocative noun “Yaa” as in “Yaa Muhammad” or “Yaa RasulAllah”. However, look what the Wahhabi scholar Albani had to say about this in the book Tawassul: Seeking a means of nearness to Allah By Nasir ud-Deen Albani, Al-Hidaayah publising. -p. 38:
“Imam Ahmad allowed tawwasul by means of the Messenger saaws alone,…However, WE (he means we as in WE i.e. the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah, the Ahle Hadeeth) follow what is supported by proof and not the blind opinions of men.”
Notice carefully how Albani used the pronoun “We” distinctly to differ from Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal. Imaam Tahaawi and other great scholars of Islamic creed only used the pronoun “we” in reference to the Ahlus-Sunnah wal jamaa’ah and their methodlogy.
Therefore not only does Albani demonstrate to us that Wahhabis are on a different path than Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal but it also demonstrates to us that the deeper implications reflect the Khawwaarij theology at work by differing from the Imaams of the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. Albani’s statement therefore reflects nothing but bad opinion towards the Imaam. Especially given the fact that he describes Imaam Ahmad’s ijtihaad regarding this issue as a “blind opinion”.
Wahhabi’s should take special attention to what Imaam Tahaawi has to say in his al-Aqeedah ut-Tahaawiyah:
“The learned men of the first community and those that followed intheir footsteps – the people of virtue, the narrators of hadeeth, the jurists and analysts – must only be spoken about in the best way. Anyone who speaks ill of them, then he is on other than the path (of guidance)”. point no. 97
In other words, the whole Wahhabi madh-hab is flawed as it teaches that every scholar, common Muslim, dog cat and mouse is a Kaafir, and the whole world is on the path of idolatry all except for them.
their is plenty of proofs and evidence lmao u just misinterpret to ur own way. stfu honestly majority is ahlul sunnah give up wobz
clowns again. sufism is worship of allah it is zikr and zuhd. so in this way dont elevate abdul wahab n ibn taymiyah. u quote a lot but miss every single point and distort opnions of razi and all mentioned they never meant that u put. they were sufis too and sunni. also i can blow up abdul wahabs grave then in that case lol? true nutter the true path is of ahlul sunnah sufism is part of it. now be quiet
salam,
so called “rightly” guided
After reading this whole post, i can honestly say you seem to be seriously challenged in understanding and absorbing plain English/Arabic.
You have misread/misunderstood the English & Arabic on a particular hadith [to just state one as i have no time to respond to you fortunately, BUT i am responding out of my shear amazement in you and as a apparent student with or completing a Dip in Islamic Studies] where a sahabi confronted the grave of the beloved Prophet; May Allahs blessings and peace be upon him; and asked Allah directly via the prophet in his grave – then this sahabi SAW THE PROPHET [peace be upon him] IN HIS DREAM and HE ADVISED HIM TO GO TO UMAR AND INFORM HIM OF SUCH AND SUCH -again just incase; HE SAW THE PROPHET IN A DREAM THEN HE [THE PROPHET] ADVISED HIM TO GO NOTIFY UMAR OF SYCH AND SUCH.. what is wrong with you?! are you seriously that blinded in both arabic and english? subhanallah…
Plus; your understanding of what grave worship is, is totally incorrect and completely wrong.
It is clear as crystal, that no matter how many hadiths is put in front of you, no matter how many scholars of hadiths who have cited it as correct, no matter how many books of scholars from the time of the sahaba till the 12th century are listed for you agreeing with this, even if ibn taymiyyah himself cited it in his own book called “Kalim al-Tayyib” [the sweet word] where he lists this hadith YOU will still not believe. Your understanding will always be twisted and your mind will be perplexed and irrational – this is your hearts disease may Allah lift your hearts veil – ameen.
Allah ta’ala has locked your heart from understanding, reading and absorbing simple concepts completely, subhanallah..
I think the admin here is doing an exceptional job in responding to you [even though you seem to be confused/ignorant/arrogant] and i sincerely thank him for his time and efforts in providing you clear proofs that any sound mind who can absorb what he/she reads in both Arabic/English will accept as the way of the sahaba and the scholars who came after them.
Jazakallahu khayran.
reply to “RightlyGuided_IsNotGuidedRightly”and indeed i am rightly guided. I have clearly answered all the false arguments this website has been carrying out to poison the innocent laymen in the islamic world. if you are not blind, i am asking you to read all the posts to get the whole story. without talking nonsense. there isn’t a silver of evidence to prove that grave worship(in other words idol worship of dead people) is allowed. you have also claimed that the administration of this website is doing an exceptional job answering my questions. the truth is, this administration which is run by a bunch of laymen are doing a great job running away from my answers. my sincere advice to you is to get away from these people and learn the true teaching of islam which is there only in the quran and sunna that was understood by the sahabas and the pious predecessors with out gobling any filth that is womitted my these people(note:from lately this administration has put strict guidlines to stop those who tell the truth from telling it.i am shocked to see this. anyway i request this administration to post this comment. with out suppressing free speech).
I only approve his comments with a smile. His comments contribute more to his pshycolocical profile than any worthy valid point.
In otherwords I am only approving his comments to demonstrate to sincere thinking people that nutters exist amongst us, and talking to them is like talking to a brick
my dear loving administration,
sorry for defeating you.anyway,how much does isreal pay you?
for you, i may be a nutter who has gone mad. but the truth is nowadays people who tell the truth are always tought as mad men. even the prophet(sal)was tought as a mad man by the mushriks.now, what i can clearly say about you people is, all of you have been indocrinated by the worst enemy of mankind shaytan. and only allah can cure the deseas that is there in your heart
have a great day with shaytan
regards
RIGHTLY GUIDED.
Lol, seriously this guy is sooo entertaining
I AM THE RIGHTLY GUIDED,
FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE(I WOULD HAVE USED SOME NASTY LANGUAGE IF I WASN’T FORBIDDEN TO DO SO BY YOU PEOPLE), YOUR IDEOLGY IS CLEARLY THE IDEOLOGY OF THE IGNORANTS. YOUR IDEOLOGY IS THE BELIEF SYSTEM THAT IS DESTINED TO HELL. GET AWAY FROM IT OR BURN WITH IT. I HAVE TO CLEARLY SAY THAT SUFI HERATICS LIKE FUKRUDDIN RAZI ALSO DENOUNCED GRAVE WORSHIP WAY BEFORE ABD UL WAHHAB WAS BORN. AND I HAVE READ OTHER ARTICLES IN THIS WEBSITE. ONE IS THE ARGUMENT OF THE PERMISSABILITY OF USING THE WORD WAHABI. YOU’LL HAVE PLAYED CHECKERS WHEN DEFENDING THIS FALSE ARGUMENT OF THE PERMISSABILITY OF CALLING WAHABI. ALL THE WORDS AND MEANINGS ARE DISTORTED. UTTERLY DISTORTED. CLEARLY, YOU PEOPLE ARE ONLY DECEIVING YOURSELVES AND A FEW PEOPLE WHO BLINDLY FOLLOW YOU. REMEMBER UNTIL THERE ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE LIKE ME, YOU PEOPLE WAN’T BE ABLE TO DECIEVE THE PUBLIC THAT EASILY COZ I AM THE RIGHTLY GUIDED AND INSHAALLAH I AM HOPING TO START AN ISLAMIC WEBSITE DEFENDING THE TRUTH AND REFUTING FALSE ARGUMENTS THAT ARE PROPAGATED BY WEBSITES LIKE YOURS.
ALL THE BEST
AND HAVE SOME REST COZ FOR YOU’LL HELL FIRE IS NEAR YOUR CHEST.
Yes, I agree, there’s a lot of intelligent people who know how to take the caps lock of and use capitol letters only when grammatically needed. I concur!!!
People, what do these nut jobs come from??^^
According to all this lies on Allah, subhanehu we te’ala, Messenger s.a.w.s. sahabas, and islamic schoolars, YOU ARE HERETIC. Sufism is great dellusion, you ignorant child. Qur’an and Sunnah are only true sources of Islam. Everything else is lie and deception. You’re follower of passion and desire, not truth. When we build Hilafet again, In shaa Allah, we will destroy mausoleums, khanqah and other satan’s structures.
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said:
“O Allah, do not make my grave an idol to be worshipped after me. Allah was very angry with people who took the graves of their Prophets as places of worship”.
(Malik, 593, Bukhari, 3765, etc.)
Reported by Imam Ibn Abd al-Barr al-Maliki in a commentary to this hadith:
“Al-Vasn (Idol) – a statue or an image, whether it be gold or silver, or any other of the images, and also all that is worshipped besides Allah – is an idol, whether it be a statue, or anything else.
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Polytheist Arabs developed a tradition to pray in the direction of idols and to worship them. Being worried lest his Ummah should follow the footsteps of the previous peoples – who built structures on the graves of their dead prophets – the Prophet (pbuh) said: “O Allah, do not make my grave an idol …” for people to pray, prostrate and worship, and anger of Allah is very strong on those who do it.
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The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to caution His companions and His entire Ummah against the abominable acts perpetrated by the earlier communities, who prayed in the direction of the graves of their prophets, and they took them as qiblas and places for worship, just as the polytheists did with their idols, which they would worship and glorify them, and it’s a grave shirk!
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And the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to tell them about the wrath of God, incited by it, and His abomination of it, and that these actions – that is what He is displeased of, and the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) did it lest they should pursue the same wrong path”.
See “Al-Tamhid”, 5-41
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Hafiz Ibn Abd al-Barr also said:
“And nothing is more important than to warn against praying at the grave of the Prophet (pbuh), or against taking it as a place of worship, and also to worship none but One God, and when it was thus disposed of with reference to His grave, the other traces of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) are even more worthy of it.
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According to Malik and other knowledgeable people, it is not recommended to pay a particular visit to the tree under which the oath of Ar-Ridwan was taken, and this, and Allah knows best – contradicts the way which Christians and Yahud went in things like this”.
See “Al-istikhar”, 2-360
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Hafiz Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, quoting the last words of Ibn Abd al-Barr:
“The scholars of Islam agreed on this sense! Said Ash-Shafi’i, may Allah have mercy on him: “I abominate that a creature is elevated to such an extent that his grave becomes a place of worship for fear of fitnah, or discord, for him and for those who will come after him”.
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The author of At-tanba from among his (Shafii) companions: “As for the prayer in front of the tomb of the Prophet, turning your face to it, it’s forbidden!”
See “Fath al-Bari”, Ibn Rajab, 2-442
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Ibn Rushd al-Maliki:
“Maalik (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about a stranger who comes to the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) each day. He said, ‘That is not right,’ and quoted the hadith, ‘O Allah, do not make my grave an idol that is worshipped”.
See “Al-Bayan wa Al-Tahsil”, 18-444
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“Al-Qadi Iyad al-Maliki was asked once about people of Medina who stand by the grave one or more times a day, and they send salaams and make dua for a while. He said, “I have not heard of this from any of the fuqaha’, and nothing is good for the latter generations of this ummah except that which was good for its first generations. I have not heard that any of the first generations of the ummah used to do that!”
See “Al-Shifa” 2-676
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Imam Abu al-Walid al-Baji al-Maliki said:
“His dua, peace and mercy of Allah be upon him, is that his grave is not made an Idol and worshipped with humble prostration, as it happens, and establishes the worship of the One Almighty Allah only, and recognizes the worship to (Him), and abominates adding to Him any other beings as partners.
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Narrated by Ashhab from Malik that for that reason he abominated to bury in a mosque, given a high chance that a burial in the mosque may entail taking it (the grave), and it may become one for the reason of worship”.
See “Al-Muntaqa fi Sharh al-Muwatta”, 1-306
A’isha r.a. reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said during his illness from which he never recovered: Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians that they took the graves of their prophets as mosques. She (‘A’isha) reported: Had it not been so, his (Prophet’s) grave would have been in an open place, but it could not be due to the fear that it may not be taken as a mosque.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Let Allah destroy the Jews for they have taken the graves of their apostles as places of worship.
Thumama b. Shafayy reported: When we were with Fadala b. ‘Ubaid in the country of the Romans at a place (known as) Rudis, a friend