Narrated by Abī al-ʿAbbās ʿAbdullāh ibn Abbās (رضي الله عنهما) who said: I was behind the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) one day and he said:
“O young man! Indeed, I shall teach you a few statements: Protect [the orders] of Allāh and He will protect you. Protect [the orders] of Allāh and you shall find Him before you. If you seek aid, then seek it only from Allāh. And know that if this entire ummah was to gather in order to benefit you with a thing, they will not be able to cause you benefit except with that which Allāh has already written for you. And if they were to gather to harm you with s…
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421 AH) said:
The scholars have differed concerning whether or not touching one’s penis or anus invalidate wuḍūʾ or not? There are several opinions in this matter:
1. Touching One’s Genitals Invalidates Wuḍūʿ
The position of the Ḥanbalī madh`hab which is that it invalidates wuḍūʾ. Their evidence is as follows:
The ḥadīth of Busrah bint Safwān (رضي الله عنها) who narrated that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “Whoever touches their penis should perform wuḍūʾ.”1
The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه): “If one among you reaches their penis…
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421 AH) said:
The Ruling of Performing Wuḍūʾ Before Sleeping For the One in a State of Major Impurity
It is recommended (mustaḥabb) for the one in a state of major impurity to perform wuḍūʾ before sleeping. The evidence of this is the ḥadīth of ʿUmar (رضي الله عنه) who said: “O Messenger of Allāh! Should one of us lie down [to sleep] while in a state of major impurity?” He replied: “Yes, if he performs wuḍūʾ, then let him lie down [to sleep], even if he is in a state of major impurity.”1 In another narration: “Perform wuḍūʾ, clean your penis, and then…
Imām Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310 AH) said:
An issue raised by agnostics, criticisers of the Qurʾān:
[Q]: At the start of your book, you described eloquence and alluded to the the highest of levels and the most honourable, reverent of classes on this subject that it is deeper in its ability to convey meaning than the capability of any one individual to express his innermost thoughts, greater at clarifying the meaning of expressed speech in a way that facilitates greater understanding of those who listen to it. You claim: The most deserving of such attributes are the words of Allāh t…
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421 AH) said:
The Beginning of the Call to Islām and the Earliest Companions
When Allāh, the Most High, revealed unto His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) His saying:
يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ ﴿١﴾ قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ ﴿٢﴾ وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ ﴿٣﴾ وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ ﴿٤﴾ وَالرُّجْزَ فَاهْجُرْ
“O you (Muḥammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم)) enveloped (in garments)! Arise and warn! And your Lord (Allāh) magnify! And your garments purify! And keep away from Al-Rujz (the idols)!”
(Al-Muddathir, 74:1-5)
The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) arose to enact the command o…
Imām Ibn Rajab (d. 795 AH) said:
As for the saying of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) which formed part of what he narrated from his Lord: “All of you are misguided except those who I choose to guide,”1 there are those who surmise that it contradicts the ḥadīth of ʿIyāḍ ibn Ḥimār who narrated that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “Allāh says: I have created my slaves in a state of Ḥanīf [i.e., leaning away from shirk and towards my Oneness]”2 and in another narration: “I created my slaves as Muslims until Shayṭān turned them away from it.”3
In actuality, there is no contradiction…
Narrated by Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī (رضي الله عنه) that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said—as part of what was narrated from his Lord, the Exalted in Might:
“O my servants! If the first of you and the last of you, the human beings and the jinn among you, all stood in one plane and asked me their needs and I granted every single one of them whatever they had requested, such a thing would not render that which is with me deficient except in the way a needle depletes the ocean should it be plunged into it.” (Narrated by Muslim)
Imām Ibn Rajab (d. 795 AH) comments:
This ḥadīth proves that Allāh…
Al-ʿAllāmah Abū al-Thanāʾ ibn Abdullāh al-Alūsī (d. 1270 AH) said:
They [the Christians] have fancifully imagined their religious leaders to be on earth controlling the affairs of the servants of God the way the Lord of all Lords exerts control over them. They believe that happiness and despair itself exist in their (leaders’) hands. All of this despite the fact that their religious leaders are of less moral fibre than the very lowest of society, more detestable than the most despicable of people. One of their bishops may sleep the night, while his own faecal matter mars his thighs. While, f…
Al-ʿAllāmah Abū al-Thanāʾ ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Alūsī (d. 1270 AH) said:
Indeed, the Christians are an illiterate nation; a coalition based in ignorance. They have completely submitted to blind imitation [of their leaders], utterly refraining from the path of rightly guided truth. To the extent that they do not show due vigilance in ascertainment of the truth regarding what they have received from their religious leaders. Nor do their religious heads and heretics even contemplate what their very religion is based upon. For if they had, the religion of Christianity itself would cease to exist due…
