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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…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (12) | Al-Ta‘arud: Criteria For Reconciling Contradictions Between Ahadith | Omar Abdl-Haleem

THE WORD ‘TAʿARUḌ’ in the Arabic language is derived from the trilateral root ʿayn • râ • ḍâd—or from ʿaraḍa—which means ‘parallel.’ The technical term ‘taʿâruḍ’ in ḥadîth studies also means ‘parallel,’ for just as two parallel lines never meet, similarly two…

Hadith Explained | Islam’s Position on Extremism | Omar Abdl-Haleem

Translation of the Text of the Hadith (as Literally as Possible) BUKHÂRI NARRATED IN his book Ṣaḥîḥ Al-Bukhâri on the authority of Abû Hurayrah that the Prophet ﷺ said: Indeed the Religion is easy. And none tries to overtake it except that…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (10) | Missing Links In A Chain of Narrators (Mu’allaq Ahadith and Mursal Ahadith) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

ONE OF THE possible defects in a narration is a break, or missing link, in the chain of narration. In Mus ṭala ḥ Al-Ḥadîth (Al-Ḥadîth Al-Muʿanʿan), we discuss which Arabic conjunctions convey an actual meeting between one narrator and the next. Having…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (9) | The Weak Hadith | Omar Abdl-Haleem

Definition THE WEAK ḤADÎTH is the report attributed to the Prophet ﷺ that lacks one or more of the conditions of an acceptable isnâd, or chain of narrators. There are different levels of weakness of isnâd. Some are weak, others very weak,…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (8) | The Hasan Hadith | Omar Abdl-Haleem

THE ḤASAN ḤADÎTH is an authentic ḥadîth, or report from the Prophet ﷺ, that is slightly weaker than a ṣaḥîḥ ḥadîth. As to its practical use, however, the scholars agree that the ḥasan ḥadîth is of a “compulsory” nature—meaning that the instructions,…