In the Name of Allāh, the Ever Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy
On the evening of Saturday, November 12th, 2017 (Safar, 23rd, 1439), our noble brother Shākir al-Afghānī had the pleasure of an audience with Shaykh Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Banná. After greeting the Shaykh and informing him of the activities at TROID in Toronto, Canada, and exchanging pleasantries, he mentioned the following doubts that are spread nowadays in order to split the ranks of the Salafīs (i.e. in Canada, USA, UK etc.).
Questioner: Shaykh, our brothers are seeking advice regarding some of the Canadian youth who r…
A benefit from al-Usūl al-Thalāthah lesson (2017/10/11) at TROID:
According to the strongest position, “Iqraʾ” (read) was the first piece of revelation. The first verses revealed to the prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) were:
اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ
خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ
الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ
عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ
Read! In the name of your Lord who has created (all that exists).
He has created man from a clot.
Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous.
Who has taught (the writing) by the pen.
He has taught man that which…
[Q:] What is your opinion about al-Barbahārī’s book Sharḥ al-Sunnah and the one who defames it?
[A:]1 Al-Barbahārī — who died 329 years after the Hijrah — is Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Khalaf, and he was the shaykh of the Ḥanbalī scholars in Iraq in his time. He was a muḥaddith [i.e. a scholar of Ḥadīth], a ḥāfiẓ [i.e. a great memoriser], and a faqīh [i.e. a scholar of fiqh], and Sharḥ al-Sunnah — in which he established the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʿah in issues such as Allāh’s Names and Attributes and the [various] issues of īmān — is from his books.
Only a person of desir…
وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ ﴿٤٤﴾
“And whoever does not rule by what Allāh revealed, then these are the disbelievers.”
[al-Maʾidah, 5:44]
A question/condemnation posed regarding some of the Muslim rulers, implying that they are kuffār and that perhaps they should be removed is posed by one of the attendees,
[Q]: ‘Is it allowed to remove (supposed) tyrants from the position of their governments when they apostate from Islām. For example, if you kill a Muslim, rule by something other than Allāh or assist the kuffār in killing the Muslims, are the…
Narrated ʿAʾīshah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhā): Whenever Allāh’s Apostle intended to go on a journey, he used to draw lots amongst his wives, and Allāh’s Apostle used to take with him the one on whom the lot fell. He drew lots amongst us during one of the Ghazwat which he fought. The lot fell on me and so I proceeded with Allāh’s Apostle after Allāh’s order of veiling (the women) had been revealed. I was carried (on the back of a camel) in my howdaj and carried down while still in it (when we came to a halt). So we went on until Allāh’s Apostle had finished from that Ghazwa of his and had returned…
The questions are as follows:
[Q1] Dear Shaykh, we are a small group of Salafī brothers in the United States. We used to belong to one masjid and there occurred amongst us a fitnah when a split between the admin, the people, and the imām, who was with the common people, occurred. Some of the common people thought that this occurred because (1) the admin was too harsh (2) they were squandering the money (3) they were acting as if they were the leaders of the Muslim lands (4) they were not being truthful. The admin has a problem with the people and felt that some of the people were seeking…
The questions:
[Q1] We know that the best place for the woman is the home and the maintenance of the wife is obligatory upon the husband, and ḥajj is a pillar of Islām; so is it obligatory upon the husband to pay the wife’s cost for ḥajj?
[Q2] At what age are children to be prevented from free mixing?
[Q3] A sister contacted us (Maktabah Salafīyyah) and claimed that her father does not pray and he has prevented her from marrying a man who is upon the Sunnah. How do we verify these accusations? Should we ask her to come and bring with her witnesses? And if it is established that he does…
The audio starts with some Ḥadith corrections and explanations from a previous class. The lecture starts at approximately: 9:20.
Abū Ḥurayrah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) mentioned that he noticed that when the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prayed he would leave a gap (silence) between the takbīr (saying, “Allāhu Akbar”) and the recitation of al-Faṭiḥah. So he asked him, “What is it that you say during that time?” The Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said “I say: ‘O Allāh separate me from my sins with the distance that you have separated the east from the west. O Allāh, purify me fro…
Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī comments on the verse below, clarifying an existing doubt:
شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ وَأُولُو الْعِلْمِ قَائِمًا بِالْقِسْطِ ۚ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ
Allāh bears witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Him; and likewise, the angels and the people of knowledge bear witness: He who maintains justice, none has the right to be worshipped but Him, the All Mighty, the All Wise.
[Sūrah al-ʿImrān, 3:18]
Present in this verse is a refutation of some of those who ascribe to the daʾwah, who says:
The calle…
