Al-Burhan, Ibn Muflih (r) said: ❝The most likely night (to be Laylatu-l Qadr) is the 27th. Imam Ahmad (r) explicitly stated so, and it is the opinion of Ubay b. Ka’b (r) who used to swear by Allah that it was on this night.❞ Ubay b. Ka’b (r) said: ❝By Allah Ibn Mas’ud knew that […]
The Imam of the Hanabilah of his time, Shaykh ‘Ali b. Sulaiman al-Mardawi (r) [d. 885 AH] authored three books which became leading references for all the scholars of the Madhhab that came after him. These books are: 1. Al-Insaf fi Ma’rifati al-Rajihi mina-l Khilaf 2. Tashih al-Furu’ 3. Al-Tanqih al-Mushbi’ fi Tahrir Ahkam al-Muqni’
❝The official position of the madhhab is that which is agreed upon by the two books: 1. Muntaha-l Iradat by Imam ibn al-Najjar al-Futuhi (r) [d. 972 AH] 2. Al-Iqna’ li Talibi-l Intifa’ by ‘Allamah Musa al-Hajjawi (r) [d. 968 AH] A third key reference text for knowing the official position of the madhhab is: […]
The two Khutbah’s before the Jumu’ah prayer are a condition for the prayer to be valid. •• The Khutbahs have conditions of their own: 1. Both being done within the legislated time 2. Praising Allah (by specifically saying “Alhamdulillah” or its verbal form “Ahmadullah”) 3. Prayers upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (by specifically using the […]
For those delivering Khutbah in the West, there are two views: First view: 1) To say what they need to say in English during the Khutbahs whilst maintaining the order of the pillars and conditions of the Khutbah and saying them in Arabic. Or 2) To deliver a brief talk in English and then after […]
Imām al-Muzanī (r) said that Imām al-Shāfi’ī (r) said: ❝I saw in Baghdād a young man, whenever he said “Such and such has been narrated to us…” everyone said “He has spoken the truth.”❞ ❝Who was that?❞ asked al-Muzanī (r) He replied, ❝Ahmad b. Hanbal (r).❞ [Jāmi’u-l ‘Ulūm Wa-l Hikam]
Imām Ahmad (r) held the opinion that it is Mustahabb to recite Sūrah al-‘Alaq in the first ‘Ishā [1] of Ramadān as it was the first Sūrah of the Qurān to be revealed, in the month of Ramadān. [Tabaqāt Ibn Abī Ya’lā & Ikhtiyārāt al-Ba’lī] Shaykhu-l Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (r) also agreed with this. Our […]
How many units for Tarāwīh? In “al-Insāf” by Imām al-Mardāwī (r), Shaykhu-l Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (r) is quoted as saying that there is flexibility with regards to the different opinions on how many raka’āt the Tarāwīh prayer is, and that this is what Imām Ahmad (r) said. So, whether people pray 8 or 20 raka’āt, […]
Du’ā for Khatm al-Qurān in Tarāwīh Two things: a) It is to be done in the final Rak’ah of Tarāwīh. b) It is to be done before going to Rukū’. This has been explicitly stated by Imām Ahmad (r) where he based it on the ‘Amal Ahl Makkah and Sufyān b. ‘Uyaynah. The Du’ā is […]
Ibn al-Jawzi (r) said in Al-Sirr al-Masūn: “I saw a group of men who from a scholarly circle acting in a way that is only befitting of the general masses. When a Hanbalī would pray in a Shāfi’ī mosque the Shāfi’īs would gang up against him and when a Shāfi’ī would pray in a Hanbalī […]