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    Question ID: 145699Country: India

    Title: Is it permissible to send salam on people and doing handshake (musafaha) and hugging (muanaqah) inside a graveyard?

    Question: Is it permissible to send salam on people and doing handshake (musafaha) and hugging (muanaqah) inside a graveyard?

    Answer ID: 145699

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 119/156/N=3/1438)

    According to Fiqh scholars, it is makrooh to condole near a grave as one should do dua for the forgiveness of dead person at his grave and think about the death and the stages after the death so that the love for the world is decreased and the concern of hereafter and the readiness for death is achieved; therefore it is not good to do something in the graveyard which shows happiness, but  there is no harm in doing salam.

    قوله: "و- تكره التعزية – عندالقبر": عزاه فى الحلبة إلى المبتغى بالغين المعجمة ، قال: ويشهد له ما أخرج ابن شاهين عن إبراهمي : التعزية عند القبر بدعة اهـ ، ولعل وجهه أن المطلوب هناك القراءة والدعاء للميت بالتثبيت (رد المحتار ، كتاب الصلاة ، باب صلاة الجنازة ، 3: 149، 150، ط: مكتبة زكريا ديوبند)

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India