فَقُلْنَا يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَ تَنْهَانَا عَنْ هَذَا...
فَقُلْنَا يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَ تَنْهَانَا عَنْ هَذَا وَحْدَهُ فَقَالَ أَنْهَاكُمْ مِنْ أَنْ تَطْرَحُوا التُّرَابَ عَلَى ذَوِي أَرْحَامِكُمْ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يُورِثُ الْقَسْوَةَ فِي الْقَلْبِ وَ مَنْ قَسَا قَلْبُهُ بَعُدَ مِنْ رَبِّهِ So we said, ‘O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww !
Are you -asws forbidding us from this (deceased) alone?’ So he -asws said: ‘I -asws am forbidding you all from spreading the soil upon your near relatives, for that would inherit the hardness in the hearts, and the one who is hard of heart is remote from his Lord -azwj ’.
[43] Pebbles may be placed over the grave but not soil from elsewhere: عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَا تُطَيِّنُوا الْقَبْرَ مِنْ غَيْرِ طِينِهِ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Do not apply clay on the grave from other than its own clay’.
[44] حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَبْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مُحَصَّبٌ حَصْبَاءَ حَمْرَاءَ Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Muhammad, from someone else, from one of his companions, From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The grave of Rasool-Allah -saww was pebbly, of red gravel’.
[45] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ لَمَّا رَجَعَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) مِنْ بَغْدَادَ وَ مَضَى إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ مَاتَتْ لَهُ ابْنَةٌ بِفَيْدَ فَدَفَنَهَا وَ أَمَرَ بَعْضَ مَوَالِيهِ أَنْ يُجَصِّصَ قَبْرَهَا وَ يَكْتُبَ عَلَى لَوْحٍ اسْمَهَا وَ يَجْعَلَهُ فِي الْقَبْرِ A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said, ‘When Abu Al Hassan Musa -asws returned from Baghdad and went to Al Medina, and daughter of his -asws died.
So he -asws buried her and ordered one of his -asws slaves that he should apply clay on her grave and write her name upon a tombstone, and make it to be in her grave’.
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