Re: reusing the same site for burial
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What I have seen in Janaat-al-Baqee (in Medina), one of the most famous Islamic graveyards, is that graves are leveled out after SIX MONTHS and reused. If you walk in there, you can actually see skeletons (khopris, bones, arms) visible from many graves.
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Yes I heard that too, I also heard the graves over there have a concrete interior and a chemical is sprinkled over the corpse to make it corrode away so that more room can be made, I don't know how true this is.
This doesn't sound right and Jannat ul Baqi as well, I'm concerned about the sanctity of the graves of Ahle Bait and Sahaabah, is an exception made in their case or have they been reused too?
Re: reusing the same site for burial
I also want to know what they do with the skeleton because bones take ages to decompose, bones of warriors who were buried in our villages centuries ago are being found today.
Fancy headstones are not allowed, if they need to use one for recognition then it has to be a plain one without writing. Also the grave has to be flat, only about a hand span above ground with no plastering done or structure built over it. And we’re not allowed to use coffins, just wrap the corpse in clean white sheets and bury them in a plain simple grave.
Re: reusing the same site for burial
Bones don't decompose in 100 years.
Bones don't even decompose in 2000 years - the bones of Romans buried in England are still discovered these days.