Offerings at Graves

Question

The ulama declare the objects of offerings decisively haram on the basis of [the verse]: [ar]وَمَآ أُهِلَّ بِهِۦ لِغَيْرِ ٱللَّهِ[/ar] “…and that over which [a name] other than Allah’s has been invoked” (Surah al-Baqara, 2:173). The people of bid‘a take this verse to mean only the animal slaughtered in the name of other than Allah, and outwardly this too appears to be correct, since the exegetes have mentioned in this verse only the slaughter of animals.

Answer

The exegetes, under “wa ma uhilla bihi li-ghayri-llah”, have mentioned offerings as well — see the tafsir “Fath al-‘Aziz”, part “Alif-Lam-Mim”, p. 615, and “Tafsir Ahmadi”. And in the words of the jurists the prohibition of offerings is present as an independent ruling: in “al-Durr al-Mukhtar”, in Tahtawi, in “Fatawa ‘Alamgiri”, in “al-Bahr al-Ra’iq” and others — in all the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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