What are your views about Shab-e-Barath .........15th Shabaan ?????????????

Question

1.)Fasting on this day. (making it compulsory on yourself)

2.) Visiting Graves .........(decorating the graveyard with lights and other stuff).

Well i consider it as a Bida'h to do so on 15th Shabaan .............because Prophet Mohammad(PBUH) never told aur taught us to do so .............there is no Hadith or Quran verse to prove it .

Its a kind of Shia , Barailwi , Sufi ,etc thing.

As you know majority Muslims of Indian Subcontinent do lot of Bida'h (Innovation in Islam ) ........

What are you views ????????????

Answer 1

Fasting is not soo necessary on 15th Shabaan, ofcourse decorating graves and all is such an insanic thing to do..

Yep i totally agree with you.

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Pakistanis specially make a lot of Shirk and Bidah

Prophet Mohammed PBUH never mentioned anything bout this :)

Answer 2

Why the h**l would anyone want to decorate a grave. That is stupid. The dead or dead, let them rest in peace.

Answer 3

To be honest, Hadiths on the side since everyone has a different set of it, I find it bidah. Anything that becomes a habit embedded in religion that was not practiced at the time is an innovation, to me at least. I don't celebrate birthdays or any other holiday except which was practiced at the time of the prophet: Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adhha.

EDIT:

There won't be any Hadiths from Bukhari or Muslim to support those rituals/holidays since it was not practiced during his time and they are Sunni Hadiths. For those who do celebrate it, they use a different set of Hadiths. I know for sure there is nothing in the Quran that supports it either.

Answer 4

making 15th Shaban special is only Haram according to Wahabism. But Wahabism is not a valid school of thought according to 4 Sunni schools of thought. Because They made the halal Haram...

Tawassul is Halal according to Sunnis, but Wahabis made it Haram.... so they did a major sin in doing so...

Thus I do not trust Wahabi fatwas on anything....

p.s. Celebrating anything Cultural is NOT Bidah....!!! we are not associating anything to God or changing his laws here...

Answer 5

There is no authentic Hadith describing the importance of this night .

So most of the scholars call it Bidah

And Shias say its the birthdate of their Mehdi (so they celebrate it )

But islam is not the religion which promotes to celebrate birh dates.

Some thing origionated from shias and suffis

Allah knows best