Are women allowed to visit the graves? sh.Yahya bin 'Ali Al-Hajoori

There is difference of opinion...

And the correct opinion is that the prohibition was general for men and women so the abrogation is also general so it is allowed for all, men and women.

So the origin is the generality of the wording and the generality of the legislation except what is exempted by way of evidence.

As for the hadith:

(May Allaah curse the profuse female visitors of the graveyards and those who take torches there) 

this hadith contains a severe threat in order to distance oneself from what the people of pre-islamic ignorance were upon of taking candles, and what it entails of shirk, so this is prohibited, as for mere visiting the graves then indeed the Prophet ﷺ passed by a woman at a grave crying so he said to her: 

"Fear Allaah and be patient!"..... until the end of the hadith.

And he didn't rebuke her for visiting her (deceased) child but rather he ordered her and encouraged her with patience, and Aa'ishah, may Allaah be pleased with her, used to visit the grave of her brother without being rebuked, and she followed the Prophet ﷺ to Al-Baqee' while he visited her one night and he did not prevent her from entering Al-Baqee' and she is the one who asked the Prophet ﷺ what to say when visiting the graves and he taught her what to say.

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1 - Visiting the graves after the prohibition of visiting and the reason of the prohibition was in the beginning of Islam because they were close to the period of pre-islamic ignorance fearing that they would fall into what they were accustomed to in the pre-islamic days of ignorance from displeasure and confinement. For verily visiting the graves reminds of death and the hereafter as has come in other wordings (of the hadith)

And Allaah knows best 

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Transcribed to Arabic and summarised by:

By Hamood Ath-Thawaabi

- may Allah reward him with good - on the 20th, Thil-Qi'dah, 1440H

Translated by: 

Abu 'Abdillah 'Omar bin Yahya Al-'Akawi

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