Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī said:
From among the widespread innovations of this time—of which none has the capability to point out except the one who is well acquainted with the sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Salaf al-Ṣālih—is that when a person enters and gives his salām, shakes hands (and from the perfection of the greetings is to shake hands even though the narration it comes in is weak but its meaning is correct), so he shakes hands but what is incorrect is that he gives salām [individually] to everyone he shakes hands with. So he says: “salāmu ʿalaykum, salāmu ʿalayku…
The Prophet (ṣallallāhu ͑alayhī wa-sallam) said: Two blessings are wasted by the people: health and free time.From the Ḥadīth of Muʿadh ibn Jabal: The Prophet (ṣallallāhu ͑alayhī wa-sallam) said: A servant’s two feet will not move on the Day of Judgement until he is questioned about four (things): His youth, how he spent it, his knowledge, how he acted upon it, his wealth, how he earned it and how he spent it, and his body, how he used or wasted it.
When looking at this Ḥadīth, you will find that half of these matters revolve around time: age, youth and how he used it.
Al-Baghawī mentions…
Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (ḥafiẓahullāh) was asked:
“Indeed you refute every innovator and anyone who opposes the way of the pious predecessors, and from among them are those who use weak narrations to establish certain issues, but al-Imām al-Barbahārī, using weak and fabricated narrations, affirmed certain issues. So how is it that you refute those who use weak ḥadīth, and leave the scholars of the Salaf?”
The Shaykh responded: First of all, I do not submit to the fact that al-Barbahārī uses fabricated and weak narrations to establish points; clarify this to us! And what gripe do…
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Our noble Shaykh, Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī, gives a beautiful advice to the Salafīs of the West regarding the importance of maintaining the ties of brotherhood, loving one another for the sake of Allāh, and advising one another upon righteousness and piety, and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil. He also gives an admonition with regards to the necessity of adorning one’s self with lofty manners and beautiful characteristics and keeping away from vile and abhorrent manners.
In this beneficial sitting (TROID, 2004), Abū Muḥammad (ḥafiẓahullāh) covers many of the basic concepts related to the manners and etiquettes of a Muslim. He also delves into quite a few questions related to marriage and more specifically issues female revert sisters face when pursing marriage. This talk is a great benefit to all of us, as it contains many of the foundational principles of salafīyyah.
Questions:
1. Why a salafī shouldn’t have a TV in their home
2. Question regarding the ḥadīth “Jannah is under the feet of your mothers.”
3. Is it permissible to attend the funerals of non-mus…
Question: When the deceased is buried, does his soul return to him in his grave, and if it does, until when will the deceased be punished in his grave, or will his soul go up to the highest heaven? Also, will the punishment (in the grave) stop or will it be continuous until the day of resurrection? Benefit us, clarify to us whether those who died generations before have remained in a state of punishment (in their graves until today) or are they waiting until the day of resurrection?
Answer: The grave is either a garden from the gardens of paradise or a pit from the pits of the hellfire, as h…
Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s mentions in his letter to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suwaydī (one of the scholars of Iraq at that time):
I convey to you that I am a follower and not an innovator. My creed and religion that I worship Allāh with is the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʿah which the leaders of the Muslims were upon, like the four Imāms and those who follow in their way until the day of judgment.
Likewise, I have clarified to the people (the importance of having) sincerity towards the religion for the sake of Allāh, and I have forbade them from calling upon the dead…
The Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) came with clear guidance and the Companions believed and followed it. They followed his commands (to the best of their abilities) and they stayed away from that which the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) commanded them to stay away from. This blessed daʿwah—al-daʿwah al-Salafīyyah—encompasses actions, beliefs, character etc.
Allāh says (what can be translated as):
“And verily, you (O Muḥammad ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) are on an exalted standard of character.”
[Sūrah al-Qalam, 68:4]
and He, the most High, says (what can be translated as)…
Imām ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Bāz (raḥimuhullāh) said:1
As for the beard, it is impermissible to shave it or take anything from it at any given time; rather it is an obligation to let it grow due to that which has been affirmed in the Ṣaḥīḥayn (Bukhārī and Muslim) on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar (raḍi Allāhu ʿanhu) who said, the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
‘Oppose the polytheists, lengthen the beard and clip the moustaches.’
Likewise, Imām Muslim collected in his Ṣahīh, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah (raḍi Allāhu ʿanhu) who said, the prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘Trim the mustaches and grow the beards…
