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Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 4.75a
A non-Muslim Woman who Dies while Carrying a Child by a Muslim is to be
Buried in a Separate Grave
Al-Baihaqi reported from Wathilah bin al-Asqa' that he buried a Christian woman bearing the child of a Muslim in a cemetery
that belonged to neither Muslims nor Christians. Ahmad supports this opinion because he says that the woman being a
disbeliever, cannot be buried in a cemetery of Muslims, for they would suffer because of her punishment, nor can she be
buried in a Christian cemetery because her fetus, which is a Muslim, would suffer by their punishment.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 2.407 Narrated by
Ibn Abbas
Allah's Apostle passed by a grave of a deceased who had been buried at night. He said, "When was this (deceased) buried?"
The people said, "Yesterday." He said, "Why did you not inform me?" They said, "We buried him when it was dark and so we
disliked to wake you up." He stood up and we lined up behind him. (Ibn Abbas said): I was one of them, and the Prophet
offered the funeral prayer.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 4.73
Burying More than One Body in One Grave
From the example of early generations, we learn that one body is to be buried in a grave. It is disliked if more than one body is
buried in a grave, unless there is a large number of corpses, and there is a scarcity of graves, and it is impossible to bury them
separately. In such a case, it is permissible to bury more than one body in a grave. This is based on a hadith reported by
Ahmad and Tirmidhi, who said, "The Ansar came to the Prophet, peace be upon him, on the day of the Battle of Uhud, saying:
'O Allah's Messenger! We are afflicted with physical injury and we are tired, what do you command us to do?' The Prophet,
peace be upon him, said: 'Dig it, enlarge it, and deepen it, then place two or three men in one grave.' They asked: 'Whom
should we put in first?' He said: 'The one who knows the most Qur'an'." Tirmidhi stated that it is a sound hadith. 'Abd-ur Razzaq
reported from Wathilah ibn al-Asqa' with a sound chain of narrators that, "a man and a woman were buried together in the same
grave. The man would be placed first, and then the woman behind him."
C.
CALAMITY:
6:65 - Say: "He hath power to send calamities on you from above and below or to cover you with
confusion in party strife giving you a taste of mutual vengeance each from the other." See
how We explain the Signs by various (symbols) that they may understand. 888889
888 Calamities from above and below: such as storms and blizzards, torrential rain, ect., or earthquakes, floods,
landslides, etc. (6.65)
7:131 - But when good (times) came they said "this is due to us"; when gripped by calamity they
ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him! Behold! in truth the
omens of evil are theirs in Allah's sight but most of them do not understand! 1088
1088 Their superstition ascribed the punishment of their own wickedness to some evil omen. They thought Moses and his
people brought them ill-luck. They did not look within themselves to see the root of evil, and the cause of their
punishment! So it happens in all ages. People blame the righteous for something which they do, different from other
men, instead of searching out their own lapses from rectitude, which are punished by Allah. (7.131)
7:133 - So We sent (plagues) on them wholesale death Locusts Lice Frogs and Blood: signs openly
Self-explained; but they were steeped in arrogance a people given to sin. 10901091
1090 Tufan = a widespread calamity, causing wholesale death and destruction. It may be a flood, or a typhoon, or an
epidemic, among men or cattle. Perhaps the last is meant, if we may interpret by the Old Testament story. See also
Exod. ix. 3, 9, 15; xii. 29. (7.133)
7:134 - Every time the penalty fell on them they said: "O Moses! on our behalf call on thy Lord in
virtue of his promise to thee: if thou wilt remove the penalty from us we shall truly believe in
thee and we shall send away the children of Israel with thee." 1092
1092 The demand of Moses was two-fold: (1) come to Allah and cease from oppression, and (2) let me take Israel out of
Egypt. At first it was laughed at and rejected with scorn. When the Plagues came for punishment, each time the
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