Is using baked bricks (ajur) for grave construction permissible?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Funerals

Book 7 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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Primary text

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz forbade building upon graves using baked bricks (ajur) and instructed others regarding this prohibition. Al-Aswad ibn Yazid instructed that no baked bricks should be placed upon his grave. Ibrahim stated that they disliked the use of baked bricks in their graves.