Question:
Salam alaykum Shaykh
What is the validity of this narration:
قال الإمام الصادق (عليه السلام) : (( إن فاطمة بنت محمد – صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم – تحضر لزوّار قبر ابنها الحسين – (عليه السلام) – فتستغفر لهم ذنوبهم)) (30) .
Answer:
Waalaykumussalam warahmatullah.
Yes it is the creed of Ahl al Sunna wal-Jamaa particularly Ahl al Bayt and Ahl al Haqq that Rasulullah (s) and whoever Allah wishes of his Ahlul Bayt are present at the graves of the Salihin let alone the Prophet’s (s) ‘Itra and all of Ahl al Bayt and Ahl al Haqq and it is supported by the report from Imam Malik by Ibn Abi al Dunya in Kitab al Qubur: “It has reached us that the believers among the people of the graves are at the thresholds of their graves and they are free to come and go and they visit one another.” There are other reports to that effect as well.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
