Hadiths forbidding prayer facing a grave or upon it 30 . . . . . .
Prohibition of directing oneself toward the bier during an obligatory prayer and the wisdom behind offering the funeral prayer in the musalla 32 . . . . . .
Hadith-related errors in Shaykh Sulayman’s marginal notes on al-Muqniʿ 33 . . .
The meaning of ʿA’isha’s statement: “Had it not been for that, his grave ﷺ would have been made prominent” 36 . . .
No difference in the prohibition between building a mosque over a grave and inserting a grave into a mosque 38 . . . .
Verification of the authenticity of Jabir’s hadith prohibiting construction over graves, and a rebuttal of al-Kawthari’s critique 39 . . . .
Clarification of how the hadiths indicate the prohibition of praying in mosques built over graves 40 . . . .
Preferring the view that the hadith encompasses all of these meanings, and that al-Shafiʿi affirmed this 42 . . .
Chapter Three: Taking graves as mosques is among the major sins 45 . . .
The scholars’ positions on the matter 45 . . .