What is visiting graves?

Visiting graves is for supplication and remembrance of death. The Prophet permitted it after first forbidding it. Its customs vary between countries, and scholars reject any excess that enters it.

Visiting graves is lawful according to the well-known view of the scholars, and Sahih Muslim records its permission after an earlier prohibition ¹. The entry on visiting graves sets out its place in the law and the differences that entered its custom.