The Prophet and Memorizing the Qur’an During Revelation
Commentary on Vol 1 Hadeeth 5 of Sahih al Bukhari based on Fath Al-Bari by Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani
Category: Sunnah
Women, Men, and Intellectual Deficiency
"Sadly, mistranslations and harsh (mis)explanations have been directly responsible for causing much spiritual trauma, especially in relation to Muslim women. While we cannot directly accuse translators and writers of deliberately trying to cause harm, we do have to recognize the very real…
The Hadith of Envy
Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari by Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani
Hadith Explained | Resting and Conversing After the Sunnah Salah of Fajr: Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani | Omar Abdl-Haleem
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…
The Fast of the Prophet
THE NINTH MONTH on the Islamic calendar—twenty-nine or thirty days of community fasting (Ṣawm), from crescent to crescent, Ramadan—is, among other things, a celebration of Al-Ra ḥmân’s renewal of guidance to mankind. Our Ramadan and Its Associations with Revelation One of the great…
Hadith Explained | The Special Night & Abu Hurairah’s Two Kinds of Knowledge: Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani |Omar Abdl-Haleem
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…
Hadith Explained | The Prophet and the Quran Revelation | Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani | Omar Abdl-Haleem
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…
Hadith Explained | Hasad: Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani | Omar Abdl-Haleem
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.…
ٍSunnah Compilation | Al-Mustadrak Of Abu ‘Abdullah Al-Hakim Al-Naysaburi | Omar Abdl-Haleem
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…
Mustalah | Mukhtalif Al-Hadith: Al-Mu~laq wa Al-Muqayyad (Open and Restrictive Wordings in Apparently Contradictory Reports) (13) | Omar Abdl-Haleem
WE PREVIOUSLY HAVE looked at related ḥadîth reports that appear to contradict each other due to one conveying a general ruling and the other specifying when rulings do or do not apply (see Taʿâruḍ, Reconciling Contradictory Ḥadîths). We now turn to the…