{
 "id": "concept/ziyarat-al-qubur",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "ziyarat-al-qubur",
 "label": {
  "ar": "زيارة القبور",
  "en": "Visiting graves"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "زيارة القبور مشروعة بقصد الاعتبار بالآخرة والسلام على أهلها والدعاء لهم، وقد أذن فيها النبي؛ أما زيارتها بقصد الصلاة عندها أو الطواف بها أو الاستغاثة بأصحابها فبدعة وشرك عند ابن قيم الجوزية، كما يعرضه منتخب «إغاثة اللهفان».",
  "en": "Visiting graves is lawful for the sake of remembering the hereafter, greeting those buried and praying for them, as the Prophet allowed. Visiting in order to pray there, circle the grave or seek help from its occupant is, in Ibn Qayyim's view as the extract presents it, an innovation and a form of shirk."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "creed",
  "worship-and-the-pillars"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "issue": {
   "ar": "ما الذي تقصده زيارة القبور في الشرع، وما الذي يخرجها إلى البدعة؟",
   "en": "What is a grave visit for in the law, and what turns it into an innovation?"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "منتخب من إغاثة اللهفان، ص 9-11 (الزيارة الشرعية والبدعية)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (book-3 harvest)",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "book-3-ighathat"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; from the extract only; the hadith are cited to the extract's pages and their collections are not checked"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "زيارة القبور مشروعة بقصد الاعتبار بالآخرة، والسلام على أهل القبور، والدعاء لهم، وقد أذن فيها النبي {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}. أما الزيارة التي تقصد الصلاة عند القبر أو الطواف به أو الاستغاثة بصاحبه، فيعدّها [[person/ibn-qayyim-al-jawziyya|ابن قيم الجوزية]] بدعة تفضي إلى الشرك {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الزيارة الشرعية",
     "markdown": "يذكر المنتخب أحاديث في الإذن بالزيارة، منها قول النبي إنها تذكّر بالآخرة، وأنه كان قد نهى عنها ثم أذن فيها {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}. ومن تعليم النبي لأصحابه ما يقولونه إذا خرجوا إلى المقابر، من السلام على أهل الديار من المؤمنين، والدعاء بالعافية، والإخبار بأنهم لاحقون إن شاء الله {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}.\n\nويقسم المؤلف مقصود الزيارة الشرعية إلى أمرين: ما يعود إلى الزائر، وهو الاعتبار والاتعاظ، وما يعود إلى الميت، وهو السلام عليه والدعاء له {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الزيارة البدعية",
     "markdown": "يعدّ المؤلف من البدعة زيارة القبور لأجل الصلاة عندها، والطواف بها، وتقبيلها، وطلب الحاجات من أصحابها، وكل ذلك عنده لم يفعله النبي ولا الصحابة ولا التابعون {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.11}. ويرى أن السفر إلى زيارة قبور الأنبياء والصالحين بدعة لم يفعلها أحد من الصحابة والتابعين {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للقارئ",
     "markdown": "هذا رأي المؤلف في المنتخب. ولم يُعرض هنا رأي المذاهب الفقهية الأخرى في الزيارة بشروطها، وهو يحتاج مصادره الخاصة قبل إضافته."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ziyarat-al-qubur",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Visiting graves is lawful for reflecting on the hereafter, greeting the dead and praying for them, as the Prophet allowed {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}. A visit made in order to pray at the grave, circle it or seek help from its occupant is, in the view of [[person/ibn-qayyim-al-jawziyya|Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya]], an innovation that leads to shirk {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The lawful visit",
     "markdown": "The extract cites hadith on the permission to visit, among them the statement that visiting reminds one of the hereafter, and that the Prophet had once forbidden it and then allowed it {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}. It also gives the words the Prophet taught his Companions to say on going to the graves: greeting the believers of the dwelling, asking for well-being, and saying that they will join them if God wills {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}.\n\nThe author divides the purpose of the lawful visit into two parts: what returns to the visitor, which is reflection and admonition, and what returns to the dead, which is greeting them and praying for them {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.10}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The innovated visit",
     "markdown": "The author counts as innovation a visit made to pray at the grave, to circle it, kiss it, or to ask the occupant for needs. In his view none of this was done by the Prophet, the Companions or the Successors {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.11}. He also holds that travelling to visit the graves of prophets and the righteous is an innovation that no Companion or Successor undertook {cite:ighathat-lahfan-muntakhab p.9}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For the reader",
     "markdown": "This is the author's position. The views of other juristic schools on visiting graves and their conditions are not yet included, and need their own sources."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ziyarat-al-qubur",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-rizq-al-rububi",
  "concept/bidah",
  "concept/grave-veneration",
  "concept/ibada",
  "concept/islam-din",
  "concept/niyya",
  "concept/shahada",
  "concept/abandoning-prayer-takfir"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}