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Al-‘Ulū: Ibn Taymiyyah on affirming Allāh’s Highness above the creation & on ascribing ‘Direction’/’Body’ for Allāh
Read more: Al-‘Ulū: Ibn Taymiyyah on affirming Allāh’s Highness above the creation & on ascribing ‘Direction’/’Body’ for Allāhبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah al-Harrānī (may Allāh be pleased with him and grant him contentment) was asked: What do you say about two men who differed in creed, where one of them said: “Whoever does not believe that Allāh is in the heaven is misguided,” and…
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Weak hadīth: saying Bismillah wa barakatillah before eating
Read more: Weak hadīth: saying Bismillah wa barakatillah before eatingبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Abū al-‘Abbās Qāsim ibn al-Qāsim al-Sayyārī informed us in Marw, Abū al-Muwajjih [informed] us, ‘Abdān [informed] us, al-Fadl ibn Mūsā [informed] us, ‘Abd Allāh ibn Kaysān narrated to us, ‘Ikrimah narrated to us, from Ibn ‘Abbās (may Allāh be pleased with them both) that: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَأَبَا بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ رَضِيَ…
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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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