QuestionI have a concern regarding teaching someone to follow a madhhab. The person is from a background where the family does not adhere to following one specific madhhab. The person’s knowledge is limited, as the person is young, and grew up in an environment where deen is hard to practice…
QuestionIn the book: Fada’il al-A’mal, first edition 1994 of the English translation. On the end of page 21 of Virtues of Salah, you will find the words ascribing kasha of “seeing sins falling down from the limbs of the person performing wudu...” to Imam Abu Hanifah (rahimahullah). Kashf means, in…
QuestionIs the kissing of the fingers upon hearing the Prophet's (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) name a Sunnah?
QuestionIbn ‘Umar (radiyallahu 'anhuma) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, “May the curse of Allah be on the women who joins (another person's) hair (to her own) and the one who asks for tattoos. (Sahih Bukhari) Some Muslims consider it permissible to buy false or animal hair and…
QuestionIs it permissible to get a tattoo? If not, is there any Hadith which clearly states that tattooing is haram?
QuestionI heard that it is Sunnah to pass the hands over the face after du’a. A salafi scholar says that it is bida’h (an innovation) to do so. What is the proof that it is Sunnah to pass the hands over the face after du’a. Please list the Hadiths which…
QuestionI recently read an email which stated that our Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) prohibited the Sahabah (radiyallahu 'anhum) from using their left hands to count when doing dhikr. Unfortunately I cannot find this email, and was hoping that you could find something in this regard and forward it…
QuestionKindly provide the reference for the following incident and the name of the Sahabi involved. A Sahabi (radiyallahu 'anhu) asked his wife for something to eat but she informed him that there was nothing to eat. He then went to the masjid and performed two rak'ahs of salah. Upon returning,…
QuestionKindly provide some commentary on the Hadith in Sahih Bukhari which mentions that Sayyiduna Hamzah (radiyallahu 'anhu) was drunk with some of the Ansar. How should this narration be understood?
QuestionKindly provide the reference for the narration in which Sayyiduna Hasan and Sayyiduna Husayn (radiyallahu 'anhuma), as children, taught an elderly man the correct method of wudu. Is this incident authentic?
QuestionKindly verify the following Hadith. On the authority of Ibn Mas'ud (radiyallahu 'anhu), Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) is reported to have said: “Allah has not sent down any disease or sickness upon a people except that Allah has sent down a cure for it"
QuestionIs this Hadith authentic? "Whoever gives me the glad tidings that he survived Safar, I will give him the glad tidings of Jannah."
QuestionWhat is the status of the following Hadith? "There is no sword better than Dhul Faqar, and no man better than 'Ali."
QuestionKindly verify the following Hadith. "If the Ummah were to stop sinning, Allah would replace them with a people who sin and then repent to Him."
QuestionIs the following Hadith authentic? Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "Every human being is a sinner."
QuestionIs it permitted to read the translation of Sahih Bukhari by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan?
QuestionKindly provide the Hadiths which indicate that the hand of a thief is to be amputated at the wrist. In the verse regarding theft (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:38), Allah Ta'ala commands that the hand of a thief be cut. While the scholars have explained that the amputation is to be carried…
QuestionKindly provide the reference for the Hadith in which Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) instructed Sayyidah Fatimah (radiyallahu 'anha) to recite the Tasbih Fatimi before sleeping when she requested a servant to assist her.
