Taḥdhīr al-SājidNasir al-Din al-Albani

made the graves of their prophets into places of worship, and so Allah Almighty cursed them. (1)

As for the second meaning, al-Munāwī says in Fayd al-Qadīr while commenting on the third ḥadīth cited above:

“Meaning, they turned those graves into the direction of their qiblah, under a false belief. Making them places of worship necessarily (2) entails building mosques upon them—and the converse is equally true. By this explanation he clarified the reason they were cursed: it lay in their excessive veneration. Al-Qāḍī (i.e., al-Bayḍāwī) said: When the Jews began to prostrate toward the graves of the prophets in reverence for their rank, making the graves a qiblah and facing them in prayer, they thereby turned them into idols. Allah therefore cursed them and forbade the Muslims from anything of that sort, warning them against it…”

(1) Reported by Abd al-Razzaq, no. 1591; the chain is sound although formally mursal. The decisive point is that Umar used this hadith to forbid performing prayer between graves, which shows he understood it in the sense just explained. (2) That is, prostrating toward graves inevitably leads to building mosques over them, just as building mosques on graves in turn encourages prostration toward them—a reality that can be seen in practice.
اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجد، فلعنهم الله تعالى» (١). وأما المعنى الثاني: فقال المناوي في «فيض القدير» حيث شرح الحديث الثالث المتقدم: «أي اتخذوها جهة قبلتهم، مع اعتقادهم الباطل، وإن اتخاذها مساجد، لازم(٢) لاتخاذ المساجد عليها كعكسه، وهذا بين به سبب لعنهم لما فيه من المغالاة في التعظيم. قال القاضي (يعني: البيضاوي): لما كانت اليهود يسجدون لقبور الأنبياء تعظيماً لشأنهم، ويجعلونها قبلة، ويتوجهون في الصلاة نحوها، فاتخذوها أوثاناً لعنهم الله، ومنع المسلمين عن مثل ذلك، ونهاهم عنه...».
(١) رواه عبد الرزاق (١٥٩١) وهو مرسل صحيح الإسناد، وموضع الشاهد منه أن عمراً استشهد بالحديث على النهي عن الصلاة بين القبور، فدل على أنه يعني المعنى المذكور. (٢) يعني يلزم من السجود إليها بناء المساجد عليها، كما يلزم من بناء المساجد عليها السجود إليها وهذا أمر واقع مشاهد.

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