The Imām, the Muḥaddith, the Example…. He was a scholar enacting what he taught, trustworthy and precise, possessing dīn, the follower of the Sunnah.
The Imām, the Scholar of Ḥadīth, the Example, the Shaykh of the Noble Haram, author of many beneficial works, truthful, the devout worshipper and the one who closely followed the Sunnah. He was born in Baghdād in the year 280H, later he moved to Makkah and died there in the year 360H after having lived there for some thirty years.
He heard from: Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Muḥammad ibn Yahyá al-Marwazī, Abū Shu`ayb al-Harrānī…
The great Imām and ʿĀlim (scholar), Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn was posed the following question:1
Question:
The Prophet (ﷺ) informed of the splitting of his Ummah after his death. We hope for an explanation of this from you.
Answer:
The Prophet (ﷺ) informed in what has been authenticated from him,
“The Jews will split up into seventy one sects, and the Christians into seventy two sects, and this Ummah will split into seventy three sects. And all of these groups are in the fire except one, and it is that which is in agreement with what the prophet (ﷺ) and his companions were upon.”2
Pro…
The following is a biographical account of the life of the Imām of al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, al-’Allāmah Rabīʿ Ibn Hādī ʿUmayr al-Madkhalī – hafiẓahullāh. The lecture also contains a refutation upon the people who try to find fault with the Shaykh, like Abū Muflisah al-Ḥizbī and others.
He was born in 1349 H / 1927 C.E. as indicated in his official papers.The Shaykh was raised in a village by the name of Tughaa Taab in Habashah where he studied the Noble Qurʾān. After he completed this, he began studying the books of Fiqh of the al-Shāfiʿī madh′hab. He also studied Arabic in the village with Shaykh Muḥammad Amīn al-Huraree. He then left the village for another, where he met with another student, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Karīm, with whom he later made ḥijrah to Saudi al-ʿArabīa. They both then proceeded to Shaykh Moosa and studied under him ((Nuthum al-Zuhd)) of Ibn Raslān. They then…
This lecture covers a large portion of the life of Imām Aḥmad, especially as it relates to his trial that he undertook concerning the fitnah of the creation of the Qurʾān. There is also a warning against some of the false claimants to Salafīyyah towards the end of the tape. A heart-felt talk that will increases one’s īmān in shāʾ Allāh.
Do not fast until you see the new moon, and do not stop fasting until you see it, and if it is concealed by clouds them count out (the thirty days of Shaʿbān) for it.
Determining the Beginning of Ramaḍān
[Q]: Is it permissible to rely upon astronomical calculations in determining the start of Ramaḍān?
[A] : “The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered the Muslims saying:
“Do not fast until you see the new moon, and do not stop fasting until you see it, and if it is concealed by clouds them count out (the thirty days of Sha’baan) for it. “1
And he (ʿalayhis-ṣalātu was-salām) said:
“We are an illiterate nation…
A lecture from the seminar in Philadelphia/New Jersey (2002). One of the duʿāʾt from England, Abū Ḥakīm Bilāl Davis delivers a lecture rich in aḥādīth and fruitful narrations concerning the ‘Āllimah (Scholar) and Daa’iyah (Caller to Islām); Ummul-Mu’mineen, ‘Aa’ishah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhā). A fine example of the Muslim woman who wishes to emulate the Sunnah. Abū Ḥakīm demonstrates the actualisation of the Sunnah at the hands of ‘The Mother of the Believers’. Several examples from the life of the noble companion and wife of the Messenger (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) are brought fo…
And if there is (a debtor) in hardship, grant him respite until a time of ease.
Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:280[Q]: How should one pay zakah on the debts which others owe him?
[A]: Debts which others owe a person – whether they be in the form of the price of sold merchandise, rent, wages, loans, financial penalties one is entitled to due to the destruction of one’s property or being the victim of a physical assault, or anything else owed unto a person – can be divided into two categories:
1. Debts in assets in which zakah is not required, such as merchandise; e.g. one…
Our brother began the tele-link with our noble Shaykh, Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Banná by first sending him the salāms. Then he, our brother, ‘Abdallah continued by introducing himself to the shaykh and with that he mentioned that he was in The Reign Of Islamic Daʿwah Centre in Toronto, Canada. Our brother ‘Abdallah then told the Shaykh that we have 3 question to ask him, the shaykh barakallahu fīkum said ‘tafaḍal’ ask your questions.
[Q]: The first question our brother goes on to ask is, “We have a young brother here with us and he’s 18 years of age, he would like to marry a sister…
