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The
ruling regarding making tawaaf around the Prophet's chamber
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Question: What is the ruling regarding making
tawaaf
around the Prophet's chamber?
Response:
Some vistors to the al-Masjid
an-Nabawee
make tawaaf around the grave of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) and touch the caging of the chamber
and its walls and, quite possibly, they kiss it with their
lips and place their cheeks upon it. All of this is a detestable
innovation! Certainly, making tawaaf
around other than the Ka'bah
is impermissible; also, touching, kissing and placing the
cheeks has been legislated for a specific place on the Ka'bah
(between al-Hajar al-Aswad and the door of the Ka'bah).
So,
worshipping Allaah in this way, on the walls of the chamber,
does not increase a person in anything except distancing himself
from Allaah.
Shaykh
Ibn 'Uthaymeen
al-Bid'u wal-Muhdathaat wa maa laa asla lahu - Page 403
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