Islamic Books

Al-Imam al-Mahdi, The Just Leader of Humanity Introduction In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate The month of Sha'ban in the Muslim calendar is a time of celebrations. It is marked with the birth of the third Imam, Husayn b. 'Ali, h...

Al-Imam al-Mahdi, The Just Leader of Humanity In...

LIGHTS ON THEMUHAMMADAN SUNNAH or DEFENCE OF THE HADITH Publisher's Foreword 2 Dedication 4 Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword 6 The Author's Response 17 Definition of the Book 20 Narrating Hadith through Denotation 25 A General Word 31 Intr...

LIGHTS ON THEMUHAMMADAN SUNNAH or DEFENCE OF THE...

Rules and Principles On starting to lay down the foundations of this book, I haven’t thought it to be so protracted, so I tried my best then to delete from it as much as I could of the researches I came across, and stop my pen from going farther. Bu...

Rules and Principles On starting to lay down the ...

Criticism by Ulama’ of Fiqh al-Hadith: He (Muhammad Abduh) said also: Beside the criticism of the ulama’ of fiqh al-hadith against the asanid (chains of transmission) of reports and works, there was another criticism to the texts in respect of their...

Criticism by Ulama’ of Fiqh al-Hadith: He (Muhamm...

Conclusion After finishing discussion of the Muhammadan hadith and its history, I found it proper to conclude my book with chapters containing researches related to hadith and comprehending it. And also which manner should be followed by the knowled...

Conclusion After finishing discussion of the Muha...

Sorcery Hadith is of Ahad: The hadith on sorcery - supposing it to be correct, is a singly narrated one (hadith ahad), and the ahad traditions are not approved in the bab of doctrines (aqa’id). And the Prophet’s infallibility against impact of ( 45...

Sorcery Hadith is of Ahad: The hadith on sorcery ...

Sayings of Madhahib Imitators: After completing the speech of those who refuted Ibn al-Salah, I am going to cite a number of sayings about imitators of madhahib and their ( 443 ) standpoint in respect of hadith, so as to perfect what al-Izz ibn Ab...

Sayings of Madhahib Imitators: After completing t...

Hypocrites Among Sahabah andSurat al-Tawbah: Al-Baghawi and others reported from Ibn Abbas as saying: The Messenger of Allah was not aware of the hypocrites till the revelation of Surat Bara’ah (al-Tawbah). Before it he could recognize some of their...

Hypocrites Among Sahabah andSurat al-Tawbah: Al-B...

A Research on Disagreement Al-Imam al-Muqbili,661 in his book al-‘Ilm al-shamikh fi tafdil al-haqq ala al-aba’ wa al-mashayikh, dedicated a separate chapter in which he discussed the issue of disagreement in religious affairs, including the reliabil...

A Research on Disagreement Al-Imam al-Muqbili,661...

Reliability of the Companions The issue of reliability of the Companions is quite critical, about which much talk was there, beside lengthy dispute throughout all ages. Hence this subject deserves good attention and much care so as to have moderate ...

Reliability of the Companions The issue of reliab...

Jarh and Ta’dil After finishing discussion on hadith books, I an going to talk about jarh (sarcasm) and ta’dil, saying: When riwayah was inflicted with that corruption, and sahih traditions were mixed with incorrect ones, with capricious and irrelig...

Jarh and Ta’dil After finishing discussion on had...

Al-Nasa’i He is Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shu’ayb al-Nasa’i. He was born in Nasa which belonged to Nisabur in 215 H. Al-Daraqutni said: He travelled for performing the hajj pilgrimage, and was put to the test in Damascus realizing the shahadah the...

Al-Nasa’i He is Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shu’a...

Muslim and His Book His name is Abu al-Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Nisaburi. He was born in Nisabur in the year 204 H, and dead in it in 268 H. He has reviewed the Sihah but not interferred in istinbat (deriving of rules) and alike ma...

Muslim and His Book His name is Abu al-Husayn Mus...

Famous Hadith Books I have stated earlier that sorts of hadith (al-ahad) being: sahih, hasan (good) and da’if (weak), presenting samples of their utterances about the sahih, as it was out of scope to mention all of their sayings due to their abundan...

Famous Hadith Books I have stated earlier that so...

A Necessary Meditation It is proper here to make a short halt to meditate over what I stated before, of the sayings of Ibn al-Salah and al-Iraqi and al-Hakim, beside other leaders of hadith who considered it (hadith) to be sahih. However, when going...

A Necessary Meditation It is proper here to make ...

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith After discussing writing of hadith by Ahl al-Sunnah, I found it better to complete our discussion about history of tadwin of hadith by the Shi’ah so as to make commentary about this subject full-fledged on all respect...

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith After discussing ...

Tadwin al-Hadith:468 In the beginning stage of putting hadith to writing, the Sahabah wrote it down in the form they received it. Every one of them embarked on collecting as many as he could of the traditions according to what the narrators reported...

Tadwin al-Hadith:468 In the beginning stage of pu...

Al-Dajjal (Impostor) 447 About al-Dajjal, to whom Ibn Khaldun referred in his discussion on al-Mahdi, many traditions have been reported, some of which indicating that the Prophet (S) was believing in the emergence of al-Dajjal during his lifetime, ...

Al-Dajjal (Impostor) 447 About al-Dajjal, to whom...

Ambiguous Traditions I previously stated that riwayah from the Messenger of Allah included many ambiguous and odd traditions, of which I cite some herewith for exemplary sake only as covering them all needs several volumes. Ibn Abbas is reported to...

Ambiguous Traditions I previously stated that riw...

Fabrication of Traditions against Ali Abu Ja'far al-Iskafi412 said that Mu'awiyah forced some of the Companions and the Followers to narrate obscene and indecent reports, with ascribing then to Ali, with the aim of defaming and disowning him. He ded...

Fabrication of Traditions against Ali Abu Ja'far ...

First Narrator Accused in Islam: Ibn Qutaybah, in Ta'wil mukhtalif al-hadith, said: "When Abu Hurayrah reported that abundance of traditions the similar of which none among his Companions and the foremost in Islam could never relate, he was accused ...

First Narrator Accused in Islam: Ibn Qutaybah, in...