His name was Sulaiman b. ‘Abd al-Qawiy b. ‘Abd al-Karim b. Sa’id al-Tufi. He was born in the village of Tufa in the province of Sarsar which is about 12 km from Baghdad towards Kufa. His Kunyah was Abu al-Rabi’ and his Laqab was Najm al-Din, frequently quoted as just al-Najm al-Tufi in short. He […]
His name was Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Ali b. ‘Uthman b. ‘Ali b. Humayd b. Ghanim from the tribe Aal Abu Ghannam. His laqab was Shams al-Din. He was born in the year 1236 AH in the village of ‘Unaizah, the main village of Qassim. Sh. Muhammad b. Humayd grew up loving knowledge, and […]
❝The deceased has all types of good deeds reach him.❞ — Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal (r) [Kitab al-Wuquf, 92] This includes Qur’an recitation, sadaqah, and all other good deeds one intends to pass on to the deceased. There is a reward in it for the one doing the good deed, but is it exactly the […]
❝It is permissible to give (money) to obtain a right that belongs to you or to deflect a harm away from yourself. This is what has been reported from the Salaf and the expert Imams.❞ — Shaykh Taqi al-Din, Ibn Taymiyyah (r) [Majmu’ al-Fatawa (31/287)] The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the […]
❝Not every weak Hadith is to be acted upon, and not every weak Hadith is rejected and not acted upon. Some weak Hadith is acted upon for reasons that have been explained by the scholars; and there is no disagreement on this.❞ — Shaykh ‘Abd al-Salam al-Shuwai’ir (h) This applies to both, Fadail al-A’mal and […]
May the peace and salutations of Allah be upon the one who said, ❝In this world, women and perfume have been made dear to me…❞ The best of creation only loves that which is the best! Ponder over how women are mentioned alongside perfume in the words of the al-Sadiq al-Masduq ﷺ and not alongside […]
❝The agreement of the scholars is a definitive proof, and their differing is a widespread mercy.❞ — Shaykhu-l Islam, Ibn Qudamah (r) The difference in understanding the texts of the Shari’ah between the scholars really is a mercy. Unlike the claim of some people that valid differences are evil. If it ineed was a evil […]
The poem (al-Adab al-Shar’iyyah) was written by the Palestinian Hanbali scholar Ibn ‘Abdi-l Qawi (r) [d. 699 AH]. This is not the book by Ibn Muflih (r) which also has the same title. He was a student of Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi (r). From his own students who studied the Arabic language under him was Shaykhu-l […]
Umdat al-Ahkam ‘Umdat al-Ahkam by Imam Hafidh Abdul Ghani al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (r) is one of the great books of ‘Ahadith al-Ahkam’. It contains just under 500 Prophetic narrations all of them in either al-Bukhari or Muslim, and most narrations are Agreed Upon (ie. Both in al-Bukhari and Muslim). The author went according to the chapters […]
Hidayah al-Raghib Li Sharh ‘Umdah al-Talib by al-Imam al-‘Allamah al-Muhaqqiq, ‘Uthman b. Ahmad al-Najdi [Ibn Qa-id] (d. 1097 AH) Who is Ibn Qa-id al-(r)? He is the erudite Hanbali jurist, the Imam, the ‘Allamah, the author of many precious works. He is the author of the unequalled Hashiyah (marginalia) of Muntaha-l Iradat; a work which […]