Omar Abdl-Haleem is a fourth generation Muslim in America. He has a BA from Al-Azhar University in Usul Al-Din, specializing in Hadith, and was about to finish his Master’s Degree from Al-Azhar in Hadith, when he had to leave Egypt for safety reasons in the fall of 2013. He has translated most of Ibn Al-Jawzi’s book: Sayd Al-Khatir into English, which he intends to complete (some episodes of Omar’s translation of this book have appeared in Aljumuah Website). He is also working on a Hadith book for English speakers that explains and teaches Mustalah Al-Hadith (Hadith Terminology) in common terms. His Arabic is native, having studied in Egypt since he was 14, and then full time after completion of High School in the US. He is invaluable for AlJumuah in accessing scholarly texts. He intends to complete his graduate studies in Hadith.
In Islam, i’tikaf refers to a form of worship in which one stays in a masjid as a way of getting closer to Allah. The word i’tikaf comes from the Arabic root ayn – kaf – fa, represented here in English as …
UNDER THE HEADING “Speaking after the two rakʿahs [of Fajr Sunnah] [awaiting the the farḍ ṣalâh] as opposed to laying down in rest and in [other activities of] rest…” The Human Chain of Narration ʿAbdullâh ibn Yazîd narrated to us that Sâʿîd ibn…
HE WHO SEEKS the praise of others has worshiped them without realizing it. It is almost always true that a person who loves socializing has an empty life. For, one whose heart is busy [with the remembrance] of [Allah], the All-True, flees…
The Entrance of Corruption SOME TIME AGO, I took account of myself with wonder—how I would adjudge something to be permissible, and then use that judgment to attain this or that thing of the world. The problem was, the acquisition of that…
The Special Night Bukhâri narrates on the authority of ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar that the Prophet ﷺ was leading ʿAishâ’ in salah [one night] near the end of his life and after he had said ‘salâm’ [in completion of his ṣalâh], he stood up…
MÛSA IBN ISMÂʿÎl related to us, saying: Abû ʿAwânah related to us, saying: Mûsâ ibn Abî ʿÂ’isha related to us, saying: Saʿîd ibn Jubayr related to us, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbâs regarding the Word of the Most High: Do not move your…
ABÛ HURAIRAH NARRATED that the Prophet said: There shall be no envying of anyone save two (types): A man to whom Allah has taught the Quran and who recites it in the watches of the night and the watches of the day.…
THE COMPILER OF the Hadith work, Al-Mustadrak, is Abû ʿAbdullâh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullâh Al-Ḥâkim. He committed to memory a great number of narrations and is an acknowledged critic of narrations, in addition to authoring a number of compilations. He was born in…