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he?” The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝He is in the Fire.❞ The Bedouin found it difficult to<br />
bear. Then he said: “Where is your father of Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah?” He ﷺ said: ❝<br />
Whenever you pass by the grave of an idolater, give him the tidings of Hell-fire.❞ The<br />
Bedouin later became Muslim, and he said: “The Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ gave me a<br />
difficult task. I never passed the grave of an idolater but I gave him the tidings of Hellfire.”<br />
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36 <strong>Al</strong>-Baihaqee in “al-Dalaa’il” (1/191-192), and also reported by al-Ṭabaraanee in al-Kabeer (326), as well as by al-<br />
Ḍhiyaa’ al-Maqdasee in “al-Mukhtaarah” (1005) and its chain is “Ṣaḥeeḥ” See al-Ṣaḥeeḥah (18).<br />
[TN: It is also reported in Sunan Ibn Maajah (1573) and graded as “Ṣaḥeeḥ” by Shaikh al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee.]<br />
[TN: Shaikh al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee said: In this Ḥadeeth, there is an important benefit which many books of Fiqh had missed<br />
out on (or neglected), i.e. the prescription of giving a Kaafir the tidings of Hell-fire when passing by his grave. And<br />
it is not hidden – from this legislation – that it is to awaken a Believer and to remind him of the gravity of this<br />
crime which this Kaafir had committed. The sin which is the gravest of them all; and which makes the other<br />
worldly sins – even if they were all gathered together – insignificant in comparison to it. It is the sin of Kufr<br />
(disbelief in <strong>Al</strong>laah) and Shirk (associating partners with <strong>Al</strong>laah in acts of worships), about which <strong>Al</strong>laah تعاىل clearly<br />
warned us that He تعاىل severely abhors it when He تعاىل excluded it from forgiveness (for the one who dies upon it),<br />
as He تعاىل said:<br />
﴿إِنَُُّاللَّهَُُّلَُُيَغ فِرُُ أَن ُي ش رَكَُُبِهُُِوَيَغ فِرُُمَاُد ونَُُذَىلِكَُُلِمَنُيَشَاءُ﴾<br />
{Verily, <strong>Al</strong>laah forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship, but He forgives except that<br />
(anything else) to whom He pleases} [Surah al-Nisaa’ (4): 48 & 116]<br />
This is why the Prophet ﷺ said: ❝The biggest sin is that you set up a rival unto <strong>Al</strong>laah while He alone has<br />
created you.❞ [Ṣaḥeeḥain]<br />
The ignorance about this benefit has led some of the Muslims to oppose what the Wise Legislator (<strong>Al</strong>laah) had<br />
legislated. We know for sure that many Muslims visit the lands of the Kuffaar to fulfil some of their specific needs<br />
(like for education or medical treatment) or general (like tourism etc.), and it does not suffice them till they visit<br />
the graves of some of the “great men” (in history) among the Kuffaar, and place flowers and wreaths on their<br />
graves, and humbly and sorrowfully stand in front of them – which indicates their approval of them and their lack<br />
of abhorrence for them. Whereas, the excellent examples which the Prophets السالم ُ left behind teaches the<br />
opposite, as has been mentioned in this authentic Ḥadeeth, and listen to what <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
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عليهم<br />
said: had عزُ وجل<br />
﴿قَد ُُكَانَت ُُلَك م ُُأ س وَةُُحَسَنَةُُفُُِ إِب رَاهِيمُوَالَّذِينَُُمَعَهُُإِذُُقَال واُلِقَو مِهِم ُُإِنَّاُب رَآءُُمِنك م ُُوَِمَِّاُتَع ب د ونَُُمِنُد ونُُِاللَّهُُِكَفَر نَاُبِك م ُُوَبَدَاُبَي نَنَاُوَبَُي نَك مُُال عَدَاوَةُُ<br />
وَال بَغ ضَاءُُأَبَد اُحَّتَّىُُت ؤ مِن واُبِاللَّهُُِوَح دَهُ...﴾<br />
{Indeed there has been an excellent example for you in Ibraaheem and those with him, when they said to their<br />
people: “Verily, we are free from you and whatever you worship besides <strong>Al</strong>laah, we have rejected you, and<br />
there has started between us and you, hostility and hatred forever, until you believe in <strong>Al</strong>laah <strong>Al</strong>one…”} till the<br />
end of the Aayah [Surah al-Mumtaḥanah (60):4]<br />
This was their (the Prophets’) stance with them (the Kuffaar) while they were still alive. So then how should it be<br />
after they are dead?!<br />
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