A SHORT NOTE ON COMPONENTS OF IMAAN

Assalaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarkatuhu, I am making this note on the important subject of ‘Imaan’ from the Commentary of Imaam Nawawi’s Forty Hadith by Sheikh Jamaal Zarbozo, which happens to be our course text book for HAD 102. I have rearranged the original text to make a small note which i can refer to and…

DEFINITION OF SAHIH HADEETH

Assalaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarkatuhu, Some times back i was in discussion with a highly learned brother who is doing Phd in Islamic studies about how best one can define Sahih Hadeeth. This discussion came up after our Shaykh of HADEETH 102 gave his own definition of Sahih Hadeeth. InshaAllah, I wish to memorize this and…

WHOM YOU FOLLOW?? OUR PROPHET SAWS OR YOUR IMAAM??

Praise be to Allaah, who made Prayer compulsory on His slaves and ordered them to establish it and perform it well; who linked success and felicity to humility in Prayer; who made it the criterion to distinguish between Eeman and Kufr ; and who made it a restrainer from shameful and unjust deeds. Prayers and…

THE HADITH OF GABRIEL

– Which is the Hadith of Angel Gabriel? – Also called ‘Umm al-Sunnah‘ (or the foundations of the Sunnah) in the same way that Surah al-Fatihah is callled ‘Umm al-Kitab’? – As Surah al-Fatihah emcompasses the meaning of Quran as a whole, this hadith encompasses the meaning of the Sunnah as a whole. – Most…

ZAKAAT TIME : A REMINDER FOR WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR ZAKAAT

Al-Quran, Surah At-Tawba (9) Verse 60. “Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler – an…

NAMES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD PBUH

    The Authentic tradition for various names of Prophet Muhammed Pbuh can be found in hadith, Sahih Bukhari 6.419, Narrated Jubair bin Mut`im:  “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying,  ‘I have several names:  (1) I am Muhammad and  (2)I am Ahmad, and  (3) I am Al−Mahi with whom Allah obliterates Kufr (disbelief), and  (4) I…