The Hadith of the Branch on the Graves and Fatiha over Food

Question

[ar]مَا قَوْلُكُمْ فِي هَذِهِ الْمَسْأَلَةِ رَحِمَكُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَيُّهَا الْعُلَمَاءُ[/ar] “What say you, O scholars — may Allah ﷻ have mercy on you — concerning this matter?” (istifta). A certain person, in support of the permissibility of the customary fatiha, presents two narrations: (1)

Answer

This book is not a work of Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari, and the report itself is not authentic either; there is no trace of this report in the books of hadith. Mawlana ‘Abd al-Hayy has written that it is fabricated (mawdu‘). In “Fatawa Rashidiyya”, part one, pp.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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