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Nur al-Idah: The Light of Clarification – by Imam Shurunbulali (d.1069AH)
This is a translation of Nur al-Idah, A Classical Manual of Islamic jurisprudence. It was translated from the Arabic with…
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Imam Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (d. 463 AH) on the meaning of Bid’ah
The Maliki scholar Al Hafiz Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (d.463 AH) in his work الاستذكار writes: وَأَمَّا قَوْلُ عُمَرَ نِعْمَتِ الْبِدْعَةُ فِي…
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The Ruling of the Jumu‘ah Prayer on the Day of ‘Īd in Light of Textual Evidence
The following article entitled The Ruling of the Jumu‘ah Prayer on the Day of ‘Īd in Light of Textual Evidence…
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Book Review: Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī’s al-Madkhal ilā ‘Ilm al-Sunan
Book Review: Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī’s al-Madkhal ilā ‘Ilm al-Sunan By Muntasir Zaman [Al-Madkhal ilā ‘Ilm al-Sunan, by Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī,…
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Salah with Dalil According to the Hanafi School
This is an Arabic work authored by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Mashhadani detailing the proof texts used by the Hanafi school…
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Ahmad Shakir: Criticism on Qadi Abu Yusuf is unjust
Renowned hadith scholar Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in annotations to a Hadith in his research on Musnad Ahmad defends the great…
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Ḥadīth regarding al-Ḥajar ‘l-Aswad
The black stone (al-Ḥajar ‘l-Aswad) has many virtues, one of them is the ability to clear your sins (by Allāh’s…
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Al-‘Usul (Islamic Legal Maxims) of Imam al-Karkhi (d. 340 AH)
The following is an English translation of a classical work on Islamic legal maxims known as Usul al-Karkhi by Imam…
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Refutations
Imam Abu Yusuf and His reliability in transmitting Hadith
1. Imam Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ibrahim al-Qadi’s Reliability in Narrating Hadith Imam Abu Yusuf (113 – 182), the foremost…
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A Reply to the Essay, “Perspective on Trimming/Shaving beard”
Bismillāhir Rahmānir Rahīm In the following, we will address a 9-page essay authored by Sheikh Hategekimana Hassan of Botswana called,…
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