12 Safar 14392 November 2017
Illuminate Your Home With Salah and Recital of Quran
QuestionIs the following Hadith authentic? Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "Illuminate your homes with prayer and the recitation of the Quran"
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12 Safar 14392 November 2017
Sahih Hadiths Outside the Six Famous Books
QuestionAre we to only follow Hadiths from the sihah sittah? Or are the Hadiths in other books, like Musnad Ahmad, also acceptable?
12 Safar 14392 November 2017
Offering Salah in Seclusion and Istighfar Are Signs That a Person Is Free from Hypocrisy
QuestionIs this correct? جاء رجل إلى حذيفة فقال يا أبا عبد الله إني أخشى أن أكون منافقا قال تصلي إذا خلوت وتستغفر إذا أذنبت قال نعم قال اذهب فما جعلك الله منافقا
12 Safar 14392 November 2017
Using water Heated by the Sun
QuestionI remember reading somewhere a Hadith of Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) that water heated by the sun should not be used because there is the possibility of contracting white leprosy. Is there such a Hadith?
11 Safar 14391 November 2017
Virtue Is Based on Taqwa and Not Ethnicity
QuestionIs this Hadith authentic? يا أيها الناس، ألا إن ربكم واحد، وإن أباكم واحد، ألا لا فضل لعربي على عجمي، ولا لعجمي على عربي، ولا أحمر على أسود، ولا أسود على أحمر، إلا بالتقوى
11 Safar 14391 November 2017
An Unauthentic Virtue of Reciting Surah Shams
QuestionIf a person recites Surah Shams he will get the reward of giving sadaqah of everything that sunlight and moonlight has ever touched [i.e., whatever this world contains] Is this Hadith true?
11 Safar 14391 November 2017
What Defines a “Tabaqah” in a Hadith Chain?
QuestionMy question is in relation to the number of narrators found at every level, in order to class a narration as Mutawatir or Khabar wahid. What is meant by each stage (Tabaqah)? Many times, individuals narrate Hadith to people of their own age and their own generation. In this instance,…
11 Safar 14391 November 2017
Reciting Quran Is Among the Best Act of Worship
QuestionIs the following Hadith authentic? Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "[Among] The best act of worship of my nation is reciting the Quran"
11 Safar 14391 November 2017
An Unreliable Virtue of a Town That Has Many Muadhins
QuestionIs this narration authentic? Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "The town which has the most Adhans/Muadhins will experience the least cold weather"
10 Safar 143931 October 2017
Being Unmindful of Etiquette Leads to Being Deprived of Carrying Out Obligatory Actions
QuestionIs this a Hadith? من تهاون بالأدب عوقب بحرمان السنن، ومن تهاون بالسنن عوقب بحرمان الفرائض، ومن تهاون بالفرائض عوقب بحرمان المعرفة
10 Safar 143931 October 2017
The Hadith Narrator, Ibrahim ibn Sa’d ibn Ibrahim
QuestionI would like to ask who was the Hadith narrator, Ibrahim ibn Sa'd ibn Ibrahim (rahimahullah)?
10 Safar 143931 October 2017
“Make Dark Skinned People Your Leaders”?
QuestionWhat is the status of this narration? اتخذوا السودان فإن ثلاثة منهم من سادات أهل الجنة لقمان الحكيم والنجاشي وبلال المؤذن Make Africans/dark skinned people [leaders] for three of them will be among the leaders of Jannah; Luqman Al Hakim, Najashi and Bilal Al Muadhin (radiyallahu 'anhu).
10 Safar 143931 October 2017
A Sign That Din Has Become Weak
QuestionIs this Hadith suitable to quote? Sayyiduna 'Abdullah ibn Busr (radiyallahu 'anhu) said: "Some time ago I heard/It used to be said, ‘When you are in a group of people, who number twenty, or more or less, and you examine their faces, and you do not see any person among…
9 Safar 143930 October 2017
Six Good Deeds That Should Not Be Neglected
QuestionRasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) has said, “Do not think any act of kindness to be too small even if it is: 1. a piece of string or a shoe-lace (that you give to someone), 2. a bucket of water (that you fill for someone), 3. a harmful object that…
9 Safar 143930 October 2017
Hadith Qudsi on the Mercy of Allah Ta’ala
QuestionI have been searching for a Hadith Qudsi that I heard years ago. It really touched my heart. I'm not sure I have it remembered correctly but it goes something like this: Allah Ta'ala says, "I create worship and sustain man, but he worships someone else. If anyone comes to…
9 Safar 143930 October 2017
Fill Your Heart With the Quran
QuestionWhat is the reference for this إن هذه القلوب أوعية فاشغلوها بالقرآن، ولا تشغلوها بغيره
9 Safar 143930 October 2017
Mustafid Hadiths
QuestionWhat are the various definitions given for a Mustafid Hadith in comparison to Mash-hur Hadith?
9 Safar 143930 October 2017
The virtue of calling out the Adhan and standing in the first row [saff]
QuestionWhat is the reference for this narration? Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "If people only knew what [reward] there was to call the Adhan and to [stand in] the first row [in congregational Salah], and could find no other way to get it than drawing lots for it, they…