ثُمَّ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَ الْأَرْضَ كِفاتاً أَحْياءً وَ أَمْواتاً الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَ مِنْهَا خَلْقَنَا وَ فِيهَا يُعِيدُنَا وَ عَلَيْهَا يَحْشُرُنَا طُوبَى لِمَنْ ذَكَرَ الْمَعَادَ وَ عَمِلَ لِلْحِسَابِ وَ قَنِعَ بِالْكَفَافِ وَ رَضِيَ عَنِ اللَّهِ بِذَلِكَ Then he -asws said: ‘The Praise is for Allah -azwj Who Made the earth like a receptacle [77:25] (For) the living and the dead? [77:26] .
The Praise is for Allah -azwj Who Made our creation to be from it, and in it He -azwj will be Returning us, and upon it we will be Resurrected. Beatitude is for the one who remembers the Hereafter and works for the reckoning, and is content with the sufficient, and is pleased from Allah -azwj with that’. ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ سِكَّةَ الثَّوْرِيِّينَ فَقَالَ خُشُّوا بَيْنَ هَذِهِ الْأَبْيَاتِ Then he -asws came until he -asws entered the markets of Al-Suwriyeyn.
He -asws said: ‘Go in between these houses’’. [5] Conclusions: In Shia Islam, we do not find any precedent from the Holy Ahl Al-Bayt -asws for multiple coffins being buried in a single grave, even under exceptional circumstances, i.e., battles. In the Ahadith of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws , we find that a grave should not be any deeper than 1.6 meters and not raised above ground more than 10 cm, nor should soil be added other than the soil extracted from the grave.
The plastering of the grave is also disliked (see Ahadith below). Hence, there is little room to build multilevel graves under any conditions .
Under the conditions of compulsion, however, there is more leeway, e.g., eating of forbidden meat to save a life, see for example: https://hubeali.com/article/compulsion-and-coercion Under the exceptional conditions of compulsion, Allah -azwj is the foremost in accepting the excuses: قَالَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ أَيْضاً سُئِلَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ مَنْ جَعَلَ لِلَّهِ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ شَيْئاً فَبَلَغَ مَجْهُودَهُ فَلَا شَيْءَ عَلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ اللَّهُ أَعْذَرَ لِعَبْدِهِ Abu Baseer also said, ‘He -asws was asked about that.
He -asws said: ‘One who makes something for Allah -azwj upon himself, so he strives extensively, there is nothing upon him, and Allah -azwj is more Excusing for His -azwj servant’ .