And He, Most High, says:

“And mosques in which Allah’s name is mentioned abundantly.”

As for grave shrines and similar sites, the leading scholars of the Muslims agree that singling them out for prayer, supplication, or other acts of worship is no part of Islam. Whoever believes that prayer, supplication, and remembrance of Allah at such sites are better than in mosques has disbelieved. Indeed, the prohibition against using them for such purposes is established by mass-transmitted Prophetic reports.

Thus, it is established in the two Sahīh collections that he said:

“May Allah curse the Jews and Christians; they took the graves of their prophets as places of prayer.”

He was warning against what they had done. ʿĀ’ishah said: “Were it not for that, he would have left his grave in the open, but he disliked its being made a place of prayer.”

The two Sahīh collections also report that a church in Abyssinia, its beauty, and the images within it were mentioned to him. He said:

“When a righteous man among those people died, they would build a place of prayer over his grave and make those images within it. They will be the worst of creation before Allah on the Day of Resurrection.”

It is also established in Sahīh Muslim, in the hadith of Jundub, that five days before his death he said:

“Those before you used to take graves as places of prayer. Beware! Do not take graves as places of prayer, for I forbid you to do so.”

The Musnad reports that he said:

“Among the worst of creation are those who are alive when the Hour overtakes them, and those who take graves as places of prayer.”

Mālik’s Muwattaʾ reports that he said:

“O Allah, do not make my grave an idol that is worshipped. Allah’s wrath was intense against people who took the graves of their prophets as places of prayer.”

The Sunan collections report that he said:

“Do not make