The Muʿtazilah and whoever followed them from later generations, for example Shaykh Muḥammad Abduh, Maḥmūd Shaltūt, Aḥmad Shalbī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿUthmān, amongst others.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīnInformation related to the Religion (al-khabar), is categorized in accordance to the manner in which it has reached us. There are two categories:
[1]: al-Mutawaatir (recurrent): that which has been narrated from one group to another. Convention dictates: it is impossible that they would act in collusion upon a lie, from the beginning of the chain of narration to the end.
[2]: al-Āh…
Likewise, the Messenger (ﷺ) used to believe his Companions in what they informed him of, and likewise, the Companions used to believe each other with regards to what they would narrate from Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ).
Shaykh ʿUthmān ʿAlī Ḥasan
Does the Āhād Narration Amount to Knowledge?
In this issue there are three opinions:
[i] That the āhād (singular) narration amounts to knowledge absolutely and unrestrictedly.
[ii] That it amounts to knowledge with certain conditions.
[iii] That it does not amount to knowledge at all.
The First Opinion
With regards to the first position: which…
The Ḥadīth is honour. Whoever wants the world for it will get the world, and whoever wants the Hereafter by it will get the Hereafter.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
The Virtues of Ḥadīth
[1] From ʿAbdullāh Ibn ʿUmar Ibn al-‘Ās who said that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said:
“Relate from me even if it is one āyah and report from the Children of Isrāʿīl and there is no problem. And whoever lies upon me, then let him take his seat in the Fire.”2
[2] ʿAbdullāh Ibn al Mubārak said: “The isnād (chain of narrators for ḥadīth) is from the Religion.”
Through another chain of narrator…
May Allāh brighten the man who heard a ḥadīth from us, memorized it and then conveys it just as he heard it, for perhaps the one who carries fiqh is not a faqīh (one who understands), and perhaps he passes it on with the fiqh to one who is better than him in understanding.
Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād
Whosoever learns knowledge by which is to be sought the Face of Allāh, but he does not do so except to acquire the goal of this world, he will not smell the odour of Paradise upon the Day of Resurrection.
The Miser and the Fortunate One
Abū Hurayrah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) relates that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “That person is a miser who, when I am mentioned to him, does not send ṣalāt upon me.”1
Anas Ibn Mālik (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) said that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “Whosoever sends ṣalāt upon me once. Allāh will send ṣalāt upon him ten times, omit from him ten evils…
Allāh is beautiful and loves beauty
The Prophet ﷺ
From ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) who said that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “No one will enter Paradise who has an atom’s weight of pride in his heart.” A man said, “What if a man likes his clothes to look good and his shoes to look good?” He said, “Allāh is beautiful and loves beauty. Pride means denying the truth and looking down on people.”1
Ibn al-Qayyim (d.751 AH) – raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu – said, commenting upon this ḥadīth: ‘‘The phrase ‘Allāh is beautiful and loves beauty,’ includes the beautiful clothing which was aske…
So when they reach the heaven, they open the door, but it closes upon him, and it is called out: “Return to the earth, since I created you from it, and to it I return you, and from it I shall raise you again.
Shaykh Ḥamdī ʿAbd al-Majīd al-SalafīMuḥammad Ibn al-Nadr informed us saying: Muʿāwiyah Ibn ʿAmr said: Zaa‘idah informed us saying: Sulaymān al-A’mash informed me: al-Minhaal Ibn ʿAmr informed me saying: Zādān informed us saying: al-Baraa‘ informed me saying: We went out with the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in the Funeral Prayer for a man from the Ansār (h…
Associating partners with Allāh, killing a soul, fleeing from the advancing army, to accuse a chaste woman, eating ribā, eating the property of an orphan, to apostasize in the mosque, the one who ridicules/derides others, and making the parents cry due to disobedience to them.
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī
Chapter 1: The Saying of Allāh the Exalted, “and we Have Enjoined Upon Man to Be Good to His Parents”
1/1 From Abū Umru ash-Shaibaanee who said, “the owner of this house narrated to us,” and he indicated with his hand to the house of ʿAbdullāh, that, “I asked the Prophet ﷺ, ‘which a…
Indeed Allāh does no injustice, not even an atoms weight. If there is any good [performed], He doubles it and gives from Himself a great reward.
Sūrah al-Nisāʾ, 4:40 *All aḥādīth are ṣaḥīḥ unless otherwise stated as per ‘Ṣaḥīḥ Sunan ibn Mājah’ and ‘Da`eef Sunan ibn Mājah’ of Shaykh al-Albānī, may Allāh have mercy upon him.
56. Abū Hurayrah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) reports that,
The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said, “faith has sixty or seventy odd branches. The least of them is to remove something harmful from the road and the loftiest…
