Abu Hurayrah and Ibn ʿUmar performing the funeral prayer for ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah in the middle of al-Baqīʿ … 171
The early generations’ refusal to pray in the structure built over Abraham’s grave (peace be upon him) … 172
The reprehensibility of praying in a mosque constructed over a grave—even when the worshipper is not facing it … 174
Scholarly statements on the matter … 174
The need to distinguish between a grave inside the mosque and one outside it with respect to the prayer’s reprehensibility, even when one is not facing the grave … 176
Chapter Seven: The preceding ruling applies to all mosques except the Prophet’s Mosque … 178
Al-Shawkānī’s explanation of the prohibition on building over graves … 178
Refutation of the marginal claim that praying in the Mosque of Damascus equals thirty thousand prayers! … 179
Some of the virtues of the Prophet’s Mosque