Likewise, Mālik in the Muwaṭṭaʾ (1) relates from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar that when­ever he entered the mosque he would say, “Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah. Peace be upon you, O Abū Bakr. Peace be upon you, my father!” (2) and then he would depart.

Sunan Abū Dāwūd (3) records that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Do not turn my grave into a recurring festival. Rather, invoke blessings upon me, for your blessings reach me wherever you may be.”

In the Sunan of Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr it is narrated that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib saw a man frequently visiting the Prophet’s grave ﷺ and said to him, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Do not turn my grave into a recurring festival; instead, invoke blessings upon me, for your blessings reach me wherever you may be.’ (4) You and a man in al-Andalus are the same in this regard.”

Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim (5) report that during his final illness the Prophet ﷺ declared, “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians; they took the graves of their prophets as places of worship,” warning against what they had done. (6) If not for this concern, his grave would have been left outwardly exposed, but he disliked that it be taken as a mosque.

Accordingly, they buried him in ʿĀʾishah’s chamber, contrary to their usual practice of burying