Evidence that the Prophet ﷺ receives the prayers invoked for him, though he does not hear them … 129
Ibn ʿUmar and other Companions—and those who followed them—forbidding the pitching of a tent over a grave … 130
Clarification that the preceding reports demonstrate the continuing validity of the underlying cause and its consequent ruling … 132
Chapter Five: The wisdom behind the prohibition of building mosques over graves … 135
Affirmation that humankind began upon pure monotheism and later slipped into idolatry, together with a refutation of the philosophers who claim otherwise … 135
Two explicit hadiths on the matter … 136
Exegesis of the verse, “And do not abandon Wadd, nor Suwāʿ…,” explaining that Wadd and those mentioned with him were righteous servants, but that Satan misled their people by fashioning idols in their likeness, which came to be worshipped besides Allah … 138
Mālik and al-Nawawī’s view that frequent visits to the Prophet’s grave are disliked … 141
A passage from al-Nawawī declaring the impermissibility of circumambulating the Prophet’s grave and the reprehensibility