Do good deeds performed on the deads behalf reach them? – Sh. Muqbil, Ibn Bāz, Al-‘Uthaymīn
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hādī said: “Allāh says in His noble Book: وَأَنْ لَيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَى “And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for” [al-Najm 53:39]. Now, in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) the daughters of the Messenger of Allāh died, as did ʿUthmān ibn Madh’ūn,…
Weak narrations: “My Companions are like stars, whichever of them you follow, you will be guided”
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Narration 1: of Jabir (رضي الله عنه) Sallām ibn Sulaym said: al-Hārith ibn Ghasīn narrated to us, from al-A’mash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir (raised to the Prophet (ﷺ)): أصحابي كالنجوم، بأيهم اقتديتم اهتديتم “My Companions are like stars; whichever of them you follow, you will be guided.” (Jāmi’ al-‘Ilm of…
Weak hadīth: The hadīth of the Bird
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ narrated to us, [who] said: ʿUbaydullāh ibn Mūsā narrated to us, from ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar, from al-Suddī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: قَالَ كَانَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم طَيْرٌ فَقَالَ “ اللَّهُمَّ ائْتِنِي بِأَحَبِّ خَلْقِكَ إِلَيْكَ يَأْكُلُ مَعِي هَذَا الطَّيْرَ ” . فَجَاءَ عَلِيٌّ…
Nearness to Allāh in Paradise is in Accordance with One’s Hastening and Coming Early to Jumuʿah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Abū ʿUbaydah (ibn Abdullāh ibn Mas’ūd) narrated: ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd said: “Hasten to the Jumuʿah prayers, for indeed Allāh — The Mighty and Majestic — reveals Himself to the people of Paradise every Jumuʿah upon a dune of white camphor, and they are [positioned] near to Him in accordance with their…
Is the hadīth “It is sufficient lying for a man to speak of everything he hears” authentic
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The hadīth وحَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ : حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى : حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَا : حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ كَذِبًا أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سمع . Muslim related from ‘Ubayd…
The Murjiʾah say “Our Īmān is like the īmān of Jibrīl and Mīkāʾīl”
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Abū Mutīʿ said: “Abū Hanīfah said: One should say: ‘I am truly a believer,’ because he does not doubt his īmān. I said: ‘Will his īmān be like the īmān of the angels?’ He said: ‘Yes.’” (Fiqh al-Absat pg. 46) Shaykh Sālih Āl al-Shaykh said in explanation of Al-Tahāwī’s statement: “And…
The criticism by Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal against Abū Hanīfah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) الحسين بن الحسن المروزى يقول : ذكر أبو حنيفة عند أحمد بن حنبل، فقال: رأيه مذموم وبدنه لا يذكر Al-Husayn ibn Al-Hasan Al-Marwazī said: Abū Hanīfah was mentioned in the presence of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, so he said: “His opinion is blameworthy (madhmūm) and his person is not to be…
The criticism by Imām Mālik against Abū Hanīfah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) Mansūr ibn Abī Muzāhim: I heard Mālik ibn Anas mention Abū Hanīfah, and he spoke of him with harsh words, and said: “He plotted against the religion.” He said: “And whoever plots against the religion is not of the religion.” (al-Sunnah 1/248 – Authenticated by Sh. Muqbil & al-Riyāshī) 2)…
The criticism by Imām Abdullāh ibn al-Mubārak against Abū Hanīfah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) … A man said to Ibn al-Mubārak while we were with him: “Indeed Abū Hanīfah was a Murji’ who saw (using) the sword [i.e. deemed it permissible to rebel against the Muslim ruler],” and Ibn al-Mubārak did not reject that from him.” (al-Sunnah 1/214. Sahīh – authenticated by Sh. Muqbil…
Is the Recitation of the Qur’ān at the Graves an Innovation? & Some Related Weak Narrations
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Question: She has a somewhat lengthy question in which she asks: Is reciting the Qurʾān at graves an innovation [bidʿah] — particularly Sūrat al-Fātihah and Sūrat al-Baqarah? [She notes that] she read in the book Kitāb al-Rūh by Ibn al-Qayyim about reciting the Qurʾān at the time of burying the deceased,…
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