Abū Hurayrah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) related that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Fast when they fast, end the fast when they end theirs, and sacrifice the day that they sacrifice. “1 2
al-Bayḥaqī relates by way of Abū Ḥanīfah, who said: ʿAlī Ibn al-Aqmar related to me, from Mʿasrooq, who said: I entered upon ʿĀʾishah on the day of ʿArafah, so she said: “Serve Mʿasrooq with some gruel, and make it sweeter.” Mʿasrooq said: Nothing prevented me from fasting this day except that I feared that it may be the day of Sacrifice. So ʿĀʾishah said to me: “The day of Sacrifice is when the people sacrifice and the…
The Sunnah for the one doing Iʿtikāf is that he should not go out (of the masjid) except for some need that he must fulfill. He should not witness a funeral, nor should he touch his wife, or have intercourse with her.
Imām al-Albānī
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) mentioned:1 Allāh – the Most High – said:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ ذِكْرًا كَثِيرًا ﴿٤١﴾
“O you who believe! Remember Allāh and remember Him a lot.”
[al-Aḥzāb, 33:41]
وَالذَّاكِرِينَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا وَالذَّاكِرَاتِ ﴿٣٥﴾
“Those men and women who remember Allāh a lot.”
[al-Aḥzāb. 33:35]
فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُم مَّنَاسِكَكُمْ فَاذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ كَذِكْرِكُمْ آبَاءَكُمْ أَوْ أَشَدَّ ذِكْرًا ۗ ﴿٢٠٠﴾
“So when you have finished the rights of your Pilgrimage, then remember Allāh as you remember your forefather, or with more intense remembrance….
Abū ʿUways reminds us, “What we do matters, what we say matters, how we deal with people matters, and Allāh is going to judge us and we will stand accountable for this. The issue is a matter of justice. We have been unjust with our tongues, we have been unjust with our hands, we have been unjust with our hearts, we have been unjust with our business dealings, we have been unjust with our transactions and our dealings with one another. We have to clean this up!
We are talking about diseases of the hearts, and from the diseases of the heart is the ẓulm (oppression), the injustice t…
It is the weapon of the believer as is reported by al-Ḥākim in his ‘Mustadrak’ from the ḥadīth of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (raḍiy Allāhu ʿanhu) from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ that he said, ‘Supplication is the weapon of the believer, the pillar of the religion, and the light of the heaven and earth.’
Imām Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyyahAlhamdulillāh was ṣalātu was salāmu ʿalá nabiyyinaa wa habeeibnaa muhammad
Chapter One: Supplication is a Cure
[Takhreej by Shaykh ʿAlī Ḥasan with some summary]
Supplication is from the most beneficial types of healing, it is the enemy of illness and affliction – repressin…
