[6] The topics of death to grave...

[6] The topics of death to grave, preparing for death and funeral rituals and women and their presence during burial, have been covered in detail elsewhere, https://hubeali.com/article/death-bed-to-grave https://hubeali.com/article/death-preparation https://hubeali.com/article/funeral-rituals-and-women-and-their-presence-in-a-graveyard Here, we present some additional Ahadith related to the grave and burial issues.

Additional details on graves and burials may be found in Bihar Al-Anwaar, V 79 (https://hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/).

And as for meaning his -asws words: ‘One who makes a resemblance’, it is the sculptures representing gods of the Polytheists, and it is the idol, like what is known .

و روى الصدوق في المعاني: 181، عن ماجيلويه عن عمه عن البرقي عن النهيكى رفعه الى أبي عبد اللّه عليه السلام أنّه قال: من مثل مثالا أو اقتنى كلبا فقد خرج من الإسلام، فقيل له: هلك إذا كثير من الناس، فقال: ليس حيث ذهبتم، انما عنيت بقولى« من مثل مثالا» من نصب دينا غير دين اللّه، و دعا الناس إليها، و بقولى:« من اقتنى كلبا»: مبغضا لنا أهل البيت، اقتناه فأطعمه و سقاه، من فعل ذلك فقد خرج من الإسلام And it is reported by Al-Sadouq in ‘Al-Ma’any’ (page) 181 – from Majaylawiya, from his uncle, from Al-Barqy, from Al-Naheyki, raising it to Abu Abdullah -asws , may the greeting be upon him ‑asws having said ‘One who makes a resemblance, or keeps a dog, he has exited from Al-Islam’.

It was said to him -asws , ‘Then most of the people are destroyed!’ He -asws said: ‘It isn’t where you are going (with it).