Authentication

3 Ramadan 143829 May 2017

Greeting Twenty People After Fajr Salah

QuestionI have heard a Hadith that if a person makes salam to twenty people when he leaves the Masjid after reading Fajr in congregation, and he passes away on the same day, he will be forgiven. Is this authentic?

3 Ramadan 143829 May 2017

Caution Against Taking a False Oath to Usurp the Right of a Muslim

QuestionWhat is the authenticity of this Hadith? "He who snatches away the right of a Muslim by swearing a false oath, Allah would make Hell-fire necessary for him and would declare Jannah forbidden for him. A person said 'Even if it is something insignificant?' He replied: 'Yes, even if it…

1 Ramadan 143827 May 2017

Mention of a “White House” in Hadith

QuestionThere is a narration of Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) where he said that "Qiyamah will not come until a group of my Ummah conquer the White House." 1) Is there such a narration that exists? What is the narration? 2) If the narration does exist, what is meant by…

1 Ramadan 143827 May 2017

Another Hadith on the Description of the Inhabitants of Jannah

QuestionWhat is the authenticity of this Hadith? Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu 'anhu) reports that Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "The people of Jannah will enter Jannah without any hair on their body, beardless, with a fair complexion and curly hair, having collyrium in their eyes, aged thirty-three years; and…

14 Sha'ban 143811 May 2017

A Fabricated Narration on Harming a Poor Person

QuestionWhat is the authenticity of this Hadith? Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, "Whoever harms a poor believer unjustly, it is as though he has destroyed Makkah ten times and Baytul Maqdis and it is as though he murdered close Angels"

13 Sha'ban 143810 May 2017

The Grave Is the First Stage of the Hereafter

QuestionIs this incident authentic? Whenever he passed by a graveyard, Sayyiduna 'Uthman (radiyallahu 'anhu) always wept so bitterly that his beard would get wet. Someone asked, "Why is it that you do not weep as much when mention is made of Jannah and Jahannam?" He replied, "I have heard Rasulullah…

13 Sha'ban 143810 May 2017

“He Is Bigger/Greater, But I Am Elder”

QuestionWhat is the source, and authenticity of this narration? Sayyiduna 'Abbas (radiyallahu 'anhu) was once asked, 'Who is older; you or Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)?" Sayyiduna 'Abbas (radiyallahu 'anhu) replied, 'He, is greater than me but I was born before him (I am older than him)."

11 Sha'ban 14388 May 2017

“My Mercy Prevails Over My Wrath”

QuestionIs this Hadith authentic? Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu 'anhu) narrated that Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "Verily, when Allah created the creation, He personally wrote against himself, that: ‘My mercy prevails over My wrath.‘"

2 Sha'ban 143829 April 2017

Wahb ibn Munabbih (rahimahullah) on the Clothing of Adam (‘alayhis salam)

QuestionWhat is the authenticity of the following narration? "The clothing of Adam and Hawa was light [nur] which covered their private parts, none could see the 'awrah [private area] of the other. When they erred [by eating from the tree], their private parts had become exposed"

1 Sha'ban 143828 April 2017

An Unreliable Virtue of Replying to the Adhan

QuestionWhat is the authenticity of the following Hadith? «يا معشر النساء إذا سمعتن أذان هذا الحبشي وإقامته فقلن كما يقول، فإن لكن بكل حرف ألف ألف درجة» فقال عمر: هذا للنساء فما للرجال؟ قال: «ضعفان يا عمر».

30 Rajab 143827 April 2017

Focus on the Hereafter and the World Will Come to You

QuestionIs this Hadith authentic? Sayyiduna Zayd ibn Thabit (radiyallahu 'anhu) reported, I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) say, "Whoever makes the world his more important matter, Allah will confound his affairs and make poverty appear before his eyes and he will not get anything from the…

30 Rajab 143827 April 2017

A Fabrication Regarding Consuming a Pious Person’s Food

QuestionPlease verify this narration. Nabi (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: "Whoever eats a pious person's food, Allah Ta'ala will purify his heart and stomach from haram for forty years and forty years of worship will be recorded for him"