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Acting upon and using the weak hadith as evidence – Part 3: al-Shawkānī, al-Dawānī, al-Qanūjī, al-Hilālī
Read more: Acting upon and using the weak hadith as evidence – Part 3: al-Shawkānī, al-Dawānī, al-Qanūjī, al-Hilālīبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imām al-Shawkānī said: “What has been explicitly declared authentic (Sahīh) or good (Hasan) is permissible to be acted upon, and what has been explicitly declared weak is not permitted to be acted upon.” (Nayl al-Awtār 1/15) Imām Al-Shawkānī also said: “The legal (Sharī’ah) rulings are equal in footing, there is no…
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Acting upon weak hadīth – part 2: what did Imām Ahmad and others intend by allowing acting upon weak hadīth – Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn ‘Allān, Ahmad Shākir
Read more: Acting upon weak hadīth – part 2: what did Imām Ahmad and others intend by allowing acting upon weak hadīth – Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn ‘Allān, Ahmad Shākirبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Part 1: the opinions of Yahyā ibn Ma’īn, Bukhārī, Muslim, Ibn al-‘Arabī’, Al-Albānī on acting upon weak hadīth https://fawaaids.com/2025/05/11/can-we-act-upon-weak-hadith/ Ibn Taymiyyahs and Ahmad Shākirs position on acting upon weak hadith Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said: “It is not permissible to rely in the Sharī’ah on weak hadīth that are neither authentic…
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Imām al-Shawkānīs speech on the mawlid (celebrating the Prophet’s birthday)
Read more: Imām al-Shawkānīs speech on the mawlid (celebrating the Prophet’s birthday)بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “I have not found until now any evidence indicating its establishment from [the] Book [of Allāh], nor Sunnah, nor consensus (ijmāʿ), nor analogy (qiyās), nor any legal reasoning/inference (istidlāl). Rather, all Muslims are in agreement that it did not exist in the era of the best generations, nor those who followed…
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Division of bid’ah into good and bad – Imām al-Shawkānī
Read more: Division of bid’ah into good and bad – Imām al-Shawkānīبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ : أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ: مَنْ عَمِلَ عَمَلًا لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ أَمْرُنَا فَهُوَ رَدُّ» وَلأَحْمَدَ: مَنْ صَنَعَ أَمْرًا عَلَى غَيْرِ أَمْرِنَا فَهُوَ مَرْدُودٌ» From ‘Ā’ishah: that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Whoever does a deed that is not according to our affair, it is rejected.” In Ahmads version: “Whoever does a…
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The meaning of taqlīd (blind-following) and its prohibition from the Qur’ān – al-Qurtubī, al-Shawkānī, al-Uthaymīn, Abū Hayyān
Read more: The meaning of taqlīd (blind-following) and its prohibition from the Qur’ān – al-Qurtubī, al-Shawkānī, al-Uthaymīn, Abū Hayyānبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The meaning of taqlīd Imām al-Qurtubī said: “Al-Taqlīd (blind following), according to the scholars, its reality is accepting a statement without evidence. And it is linguistically derived from qilādat al-ba’īr (the camel’s collar/halter), for the Arabs say: “I put a qilādah on the camel” when they put a rope around its…
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Is the hadith of the 73 sects authentic & who is the saved sect? – Ibn ‘Uthaymīn
Read more: Is the hadith of the 73 sects authentic & who is the saved sect? – Ibn ‘Uthaymīnبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The questioner says: I found in the commentary of Ibn Kathīr a hadīth in which the Messenger says something to the effect: “This nation will split into seventy-three sects, all of them in the Fire except one,” so is this hadīth authentic? And what are the misguided sects compared to this…
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Njeriu i Hutuar – Burri që Ngatërron të Drejtat
Read more: Njeriu i Hutuar – Burri që Ngatërron të Drejtatبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Ai është ai që përzien mes të drejtave të prindërve të tij dhe të drejtave të gruas së tij! Ai e dëmton gruan e tij në lidhje me të drejtat e saj të detyrueshme që janë legjisluar për të, ose ndonjëherë ai e shtypë atë duke justifikuar këtë shtypje me pretendimin…