From the manners of visiting the graveyard

*Salaamun 'alaykum wa rahmat-ul-lahi wa barakātuh*

```From the manners of visiting the graveyard```

_In the name of Allaah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) ._

Question

*Some of the general people, when they are present at the graveyard, treat it as a place for gossip and discussion of worldly affairs. What is your advice to someone who is visiting the graveyard to follow a funeral procession, and what should one be busy and occupy themselves with when at the graveyard?*

_🎙️Answered by al-‘Allāmah, Shaykh Muhammad Sālih al-‘Uthaymeen رحمه الله_

*Our advice to anyone who visits the graveyard is that he supplicates with what has come in the Sunnah regarding what is to be said when visiting the graveyard:*

السلام عليكم دار قومٍ مؤمنين، وإنا إن شاء الله بكم لاحقون، يرحمكم الله المستقدمين منا ومنكم والمستأخرين، نسأل الله لنا ولكم العافية.

*“Peace be upon you, dwellers of this abode from among the believers. Indeed, we, if Allāh wills, shall follow/joining you.*

*May Allāh have mercy upon those who have preceded from us and from you, and upon those who come later.*

We ask Allāh for us and for you well-being and safety.”

It is neither appropriate nor befitting for someone visiting the graveyard to speak about matters related to the worldly life, or anything that leads to joking, laughter, or the like of that, because the Prophet ﷺ said:

*“Visit the graves, for they remind you of the Hereafter.”*

*Thus, the Sunnah in visiting the graveyard is that a person should be reflective, humbled, and remember his own end, and that he will eventually depart to what those (the inhabitants of the graves) have gone to.*

And Allāh is the One whose help is sought.

📚 [Majmū‘ Fatāwā, vol. 17, pgs. 444–445, question no. 381]