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Question ID: 56722Country: Pakistan

Title: Salah in Graveyard masjid

Question: I am a shopkeeper in my place. It is near a graveyard where I offer salah daily. A friend said to me that salah in grave yard masjid is forbidden by Muhammad (SAW). So, I want to confirm whether I should offer salah there?

Answer ID: 56722Posted on: Aug 30, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 125/122/B=02/1436) It is forbidden only when the graves are in front of the namazi. If there is a mosque and the wall of the mosque is a barrier in between then it is lawful to offer salah in the mosque of graveyard without any karahat.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,

Darul Uloom Deoband, India

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Title: Salah in Graveyard masjid

Question: I am a shopkeeper in my place. It is near a graveyard where I offer salah daily. A friend said to me that salah in grave yard masjid is forbidden by Muhammad (SAW). So, I want to confirm whether I should offer salah there?

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