Turning an Eidgah into a Graveyard

Question

In my settlement an Eidgah (the ground for the Eid prayer) is built in the middle of a graveyard. Formerly the population was small, so everyone fitted into it, but now there is no room in it at all, and there is a need to enlarge the Eidgah. The difficulty, however, is that there are graves on all four sides of the Eidgah. So the people of the settlement want to abandon this Eidgah and build an Eidgah elsewhere. The question is: may the debris (building materials) of this Eidgah be used in the other Eidgah or not?

Answer

If that place is a waqf, and a waqf for the Eid prayer, then it is not permissible to demolish it and bury the dead there; rather, it should be kept as an Eidgah. As for the graveyard beside it: if it has become old and the dead are no longer buried there but elsewhere, then land may be taken from that graveyard to enlarge the Eidgah, provided the dead in the graves have…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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