Year: 2025
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Aqeeda
The figurative Interpretations [Ta’wīlāt] of Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241 AH) as Reported by Imam al-Ghazālī (d. 505 AH)
Imam Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī (d. 794 AH) said in his Al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh (The Encompassing Sea in the…
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Fiqh
Bibliographical Compilations of the Ḥanafī Legal School
The Ḥanafī juridical tradition has produced an extensive corpus of biographical literature documenting its scholarly lineage. Dr. Muḥyī al-Dīn Hilāl…
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Mar’ī al-Karmī al-Ḥanbalī (d. 1033 AH) on the Ottoman Rulers, Their Authentic ‘Aqīda (creed) and Madhhab
The text presented here is a translation from the Arabic work “Necklaces of Pure Gold Regarding the Virtues of the…
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Ḥātim al-‘Awnī: Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal Opposes Taymīs on the Nature of Divine Speech
Imām Aḥmad said: “Allāh has been eternally knowing and speaking.” (al-Miḥnah li Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq, p. 102) This explanation contradicts…
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Fiqh
The Fiqh of Eid al Fitr
The Fiqh of Eid al-Fitr Praise be to Allah that is due from all grateful believers, a fullness of…
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Fiqh
Imam Mālik’s Defence of the Traditional Tarāwīḥ Practice in Madina: 20 Rakʿahs with Interspersed Nafl
In al-Mudawwana al-Kubrā (1/287) of al-Qāḍī Saḥnūn (d. 240 AH), the following was documented: قَالَ مَالِكٌ: بَعَثَ إلَيَّ الْأَمِيرُ وَأَرَادَ…
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Fiqh
The Illumination of Lamps Regarding the Tarāwīḥ Prayer:Establishing Twenty Rak’ahs as an Emphasized Prophetic Practice
This concise treatise, authored by Imam Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Subkī (d. 756/1355), addresses the jurisprudential debates surrounding the…
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Fiqh
The Rules of Ramadan – Mufti Muhammad Shafi
The following is a short work on the rules and etiquettes pertaining to the Holy month of Ramadan in the…
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Fiqh
Reflections on Ramadan
As we enter Ramadan once again the following is a succinct list of reminders connected to this blessed month: 1)…
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Aqeeda
The Unreliability of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī: Critical Analysis of a Source Frequently Cited in Contemporary Salafī Literature
This comprehensive study examines the scholarly assessment of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī’s (d. 387 AH) reliability as a transmitter through a…
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