QUESTION: I've read through the article regarding womenfolk visiting graves. I've been doing quite a bit of research, and to my understanding from the books of ahadith, whilst reading through Mishkaat, reading the commentary of one particular hadith which has been narrated by hadrat Anas (ra), he heard the prophet saw say that Allah's curse is on the lady who visits graves. So if you don't mind, could you please recheck your views?
ANSWER:
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
Are you aware of what the Arabic of that hadith says? Zawwaraat means ‘women who frequent graves’. The great hadith commentators such as Qurtubi, Nawawi, Ibn Hajar, Ayni, Qari, and others explained it in several ways. It is understood to mean those who used to work around graveyards as ‘professional mourners’ or wailers; or those who go to graveyards frequently, leading to fitna or undue expressions of sorrow, which the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) forbade…
Please refer to the articles on www.sunnipath.com on this by doing a search for “women visiting graves”.
On Sunni Path, we don’t express “our” views, but sound positions of Sunni scholarship.
To understand the methodology we follow: The articles by Shaykh Nuh Keller and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad at Sidi Mas’ud Khan’s excellent site www.masud.co.uk will be useful, inshaAllah.
Wassalam.
Faraz Rabbani
[Source: SunniPath]