Hadith Details
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كتاب الجنائز
The Book of Prayer - Funerals
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ أَبِي، الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ يُجَصَّصَ الْقَبْرُ وَأَنْ يُقْعَدَ عَلَيْهِ وَأَنْ يُبْنَى عَلَيْهِ .
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade that the graves should be plastered or they be used as sitting places (for the people), or a building should be built over them.
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- Hadith 970b
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- Hadith 968
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- Hadith 970c
Jabir said that he was forbidden to plaster graves.
- Hadith 967
Ibn 'Abbas said that a piece of red stuff was put in the grave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).
- Hadith 971a
It is better that one of you should sit on live coals which would burn his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave.