I’m asking about the normal days, not on the day of a Janaza. I have always thought women could Islamically visit as long as there is a control of emotion and you practice patience, while remembering your loved ones.
But today my sister told me that someone told her that women are not allowed to visit graveyards because of the non-mahram issue? So he said its a Hadith from 'Aishah, that she used to visit her father and brother, until another non-mahram were laid to rest there, she stopped going.
However, after doing some research this does not seem valid. From what I read Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) never stated that women were not to visit graveyards, instead he guided them to have patience.
I'm asking about the normal days, not on the day of a Janaza. I have always thought women could Islamically visit as long as there is a control of emotion and you practice patience, while remembering your loved ones.
But today my sister told me that someone told her that women are not allowed to visit graveyards because of the non-mahram issue? So he said its a Hadith from 'Aishah, that she used to visit her father and brother, until another non-mahram were laid to rest there, she stopped going.
However, after doing some research this does not seem valid. From what I read Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) never stated that women were not to visit graveyards, instead he guided them to have patience.
Is that right, or am I just way off here?
She heard from someone who probably heard from someone..right?
Women are allowed to visit graveyards so long they can control their emotions and follow the rules of hijab.
Re: In islam are women allowed to visit graveyards?
ok so since this thread is open…can someone please give something more convincing that i can pass it on to a friend of mine who(and her family) thinks that women are not allowed to go to the graveyard..jazakallah
we’ve spent so many lunch breaks debating on this topic:bummer:
In the Hanafi school, it is permitted for women to visit the grave, as long as they are properly dressed, and ensure that there is no undue intermixing with non-mahram men, and that they do not behave inappropriately, such as wailing.
In the Fatawa al-Hindiyya, considered one of the foremost references for fatwa in the Hanafi school, it says,
"The scholars differed about women visiting graves. al-Sarakhsi (Allah have mercy on him) said that the soundest position is that it is not wrong." (5: 350)
In al-Sarakhsi’s own al-Mabsut, he says,
"The soundest opinion in our school is that the dispensation (to visit graves) is present for both men and women, because it has been related that `A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) used to visit the grave of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) at all times, and that when she went on Hajj she visited the grave of her brother Abd al-Rahman (Allah be pleased with him)..." (24: 10)
This is confirmed by Ibn Nujaym in his al-Bahr al-Ra’iq.Ibn Abidin said in his supercommentary on this work,
al-Ramli said, "**As for women, if they visit graves to renew their sorrows, or to cry and wail, as is the customary practice of many, it is not allowed for them to visit graves. This is how the Prophetic hadith that, "Allah has cursed women who visit graves," is understood. As for if they visit for contemplation, compassion, and seeking baraka by visiting the graves of the righteous, then it is not wrong if they are elderly. It is disliked if they are young** [f: and there is fear of fitna from their attending....] (Ibn Abidin, Minhat al-Khaliq Hashiyat al-Bahr al-Ra'iq, 2: 210)
Among that which shows that women's visiting graves is not unlawful is the hadith narrated by Anas (Allah be pleased with him) that, "T**he Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) passed by a woman who was crying by a grave. He said, 'Fear Allah and be patient.'"** (Reported by Bukhari and Muslim) The permissibility is understood, as the fuqaha tell us because he did not forbid her from visiting the grave, and had it been unlawful it would have been obligatory for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) to forbid her.
And Allah knows best.
Re: In islam are women allowed to visit graveyards?
jazakallah CP.....it should be convincingi guess....i'll just edit something:@: that part where it says in hanafi school of thought, cause although her family follows hanafi madhhab, she is quite against these divisions..
