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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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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 it permissible to pray two rak’ah before Maghrib
Read more: Is it permissible to pray two rak’ah before Maghribبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imām Muslim said: Chapter, it is recommended to pray two rak’ah before Maghrib Hadīth 1. وَكُنَّا نُصَلِّي عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَكْعَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ، قَبْلَ صَلَاةِ الْمَغْرِبِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ : أَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ صَلَّاهُمَا ؟ قَالَ : كَانَ يَرَانَا نُصَلِّيهِمَا ، فَلَمْ يَأْمُرْنَا وَلَمْ يَنْهَنَا Anas narrated:… And…
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Can the junub and menstruating woman touch the Qur’an – al-Shawkānī, Al-Albānī
Read more: Can the junub and menstruating woman touch the Qur’an – al-Shawkānī, Al-Albānīبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم A summary Imām Al-Albānī was asked: **Questioner:** Is it correct that a menstruating woman and a person in a state of major ritual impurity (janābah) can touch the Qur’ān or to read (from) it for worship or memorisation? **Sheikh:** No, we do not find in the Book (Qur’ān) nor in the…