481 – On the authority of Buraidah ibn al-Ḥuṣayb al-Aslamī (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “I had forbidden you from visiting graves; now visit them.” Muslim narrated it. Al-Tirmidhī added: “for they remind one of the Hereafter.” (1)

Ibn Mājah, in the narration of Ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him), added: “and they make one disdain worldly life.” (2)

— Degree of authenticity:
In the chain of Ibn Mājah’s additional wording appears Ayyūb ibn Hāniʾ; al-Ḥāfiẓ said of him, “He is somewhat weak.” In any event, the meaning is sound and other texts support it, whereas the wording added by al-Tirmidhī was transmitted by him and he declared it authentic.

— Vocabulary notes:
• “So visit them” (fazūrūhā) is an imperative derived from ziyārah (visitation) and comes after a prior prohibition. Some scholars of uṣūl hold that a command following a prohibition confers mere permissibility, as in Allah’s words: “And when you are released from iḥrām, then hunt” (al-Māʾidah 2). Others say that such a command restores the matter to its former ruling. The preferable view is that the effect varies with the specific circumstance and context.
• “Make one disdain” (tuzahhidu): al-Kisāʾī noted that the verb may be vocalised with either a kasrah or a fatḥah on the hāʾ. Zuhd is having little desire for something; the zāhid concerning a thing is the one who turns away from it, whether on religious grounds or by natural disposition. Shaykh al-Islām stated: “Zuhd is to leave whatever does not benefit in the Hereafter.”