Ibn Taymiyyah’s Tafsir of Surah Nuh
April 27, 2024 § Leave a comment
“Imām adh-Dhahabī said, ‘And our Shaikh Ibn Taymiyyah was like that wallāhī,—he spent more than a year just on the tafsīr of Sūrah Nūḥ.’”
Tārīkh al-Islām wa Wafayāt al-Mashāhīr wal-Aʿlām, 30/226.
Reign in the Arrogance
April 25, 2024 § Leave a comment
“Ibn ʿUmar, may Allaah be pleased with him, said, ‘Taqwā is that you don’t see yourself as being better than anyone else.’”
Tafsīr al-Baghawī.
When Some Women who were Wearing Thin Clothes Visited ʿĀʾishah May Allaah be Pleased with Her
April 24, 2024 § Leave a comment
“Some women went to visit ʿĀʾishah, may Allaah be pleased with her, and they were wearing thin clothes, so she said, ‘If you are believing women—then these are not the clothes of believing women.’”
Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī, vol. 14, p. 244.
“Speak to Him Gently.”
February 1, 2024 § Leave a comment
“A person recited [the verse where Allaah told Mūsā how to address Pharaoh, saying], “Speak to him gently,” [20:44] in front of Yaḥya ibn Muʿādh so he started crying and said, “My Lord, this is how gentle you are with someone who said, ‘I am god,’ so how gentle are you with someone who says, ‘You are God?’””
Tafsīr al-Baghawī.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam the Ethiopian and the Quran in Ramaḍān
December 27, 2023 § Leave a comment
“Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muʿtazz said, ‘One Ramaḍān I saw him finish the Qurʾān every two nights—and this was at Dār [al-Ḥadīth in Makkah where he worked teaching], as for what he finished at home then I don’t know how many times he would’ve done it there.’”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 102.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam the Ethiopian and the Quran and al-Ḥuṣari
December 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
“It was his habit to finish reading the Quran every week … his son ʿAbdul-Jalīl said, ‘If he wasn’t able to finish his daily portion of the Quran at home he would finish it in the car …,’ his sons and other Shaikhs told me that he would use the time when going from one place to another to read the Quran or to finish his daily portion thereof, and on numerous occasions he used to listen to Shaikh al-Ḥuṣari’s recitation on tape in the car.’
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, pp. 100-101.
Shaikh al-Ḥuṣari:
Remove what Allaah Hates from Your Heart
December 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿUthaimīn said, “So don’t harbour anything that Allaah hates in your heart, if you do—Allaah knows it, it’s not hidden from Him. So purify your heart so that it becomes clean and sound, because the only thing that will help on the Day of Judgement is if someone comes with a pure, sound heart.”
Tafsīr Sūrah al-Ḥadīd, p. 373.
Shaikh Muḥammad was Already a Scholar in Ethiopia Before he Came to Saudi
December 18, 2023 § Leave a comment
“What a lot of students of knowledge don’t know is that when Shaikh Muḥammad, Allaah have mercy on him, came to Saudi from his country he was already a profound scholar well-versed in many disciplines, and he was [only] in his thirties [at the time]. In fact, he had books that he had written in Ethiopia only that he was unable to bring them with him to Saudi—and when he would remember that he would cry and become sad, more than one person has mentioned this.”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 78.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam The Ethiopian’s Advice
December 17, 2023 § Leave a comment
“His son ʿAbdul-Jalīl told me that whenever some scholars or students of knowledge would ask him for advice he would say:
عليكم بنشر السنة، وتدريس الكتب الستة، ليل نهار
“You must spread the Sunnah, and teach the six books, night and day.”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 64.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam and the Ḥajj Break · More on His Memorisation
December 12, 2023 § Leave a comment
“One of the teachers at Dār al-Ḥadīth, Shaikh ʿAbdullah ʿAwaḍ said, ‘One time we were sitting with the Shaikh after we had come back from Ḥajj break. A few minutes before starting the lesson he asked the students sitting there what points of benefit they might have picked up during the break, so we hung our heads [out of embarrassment]. Then he asked me, ‘What about you, ʾAbdullah, what’s something beneficial you picked up?’ I said, ‘I read a small book on the manners of differing.’ Then he told us that in the break he had memorised 667 lines of poetry from al-ʾIrāqī’s work on the Prophet’s ﷺ biography [which al-ʾIrāqī had written in the form of one thousand lines of poetry, an ‘alfiyyah,’ a ‘thousand-liner’]. The break had been about 12 days long. Then one of the students asked him, ‘Shaikh, how many lines of poetry do you memorise a day?’
He said, ‘60 or 70 while I’m drinking a cup of tea.’”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 61.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam the Ethiopian’s Memorisation Prowess from when He was Small
December 11, 2023 § Leave a comment
His memorisation of numerous texts was exemplary, more to come on that, but we will start with what he said here:
“I saw the Prophet ﷺ in a dream when I was small and he was teaching me Sūrah al-Fātiḥah. After that whenever I looked at a page I memorised it easily and didn’t find it difficult.”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 61.
Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam the Ethiopian when He was a Kid
December 10, 2023 § Leave a comment
One of the greatest ḥadīth scholars of this time was Shaikh Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, may Allaah have mercy on him, he was from Ethiopia and migrated to Makkah where he taught for decades, he passed away in 2020.
He said, “One of Allaah’s blessings on me was that he made me love the science of ḥadīth from a young age. When I was small and my father used to read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī I would hide behind a wall and listen to the person reading it, and upon hearing Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī being read my heart would yearn [for it] …” Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 23.
Part of the Prophet’s ﷺ Prayer for the Weak
December 6, 2023 § Leave a comment
اللَّهُمَّ نَجِّ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Allāhumma najjil-mustaḍʿafīna minal-muʾminīn.
Part of the Prophet’s ﷺ duʿā was, “… Allaah! Save the weak among the believers …”
Bukhārī, no. 4598.
Al-Badr Crying About Having Mercy with Sinners Especially During These Times
December 4, 2023 § Leave a comment
“Let Me Pray!”
December 3, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Prophet ﷺ said, “When the deceased enters the grave, the sun is made to appear as if it is setting. He sits up, rubs his eyes and says, ‘Let me pray!’”
Ṣaḥīḥ, Ibn Mājah, no. 4272.
“Presenting the scene of sunset in the grave is a kind of trial that differentiates between a true believer and a so-called Muslim.
Continually performing prayers during life is very important, and an obligatory act. If one neglects them here, then it becomes very difficult to be successful in the examination in the grave.
Rubbing his eyes means he will think that he has slept for a long time and is late for the ʿAsr prayer, so he hastens to perform the prayer as soon as possible to avoid more delay.”
On Backbiting
December 1, 2023 § Leave a comment
Al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd said, “My father said, ‘I heard al-ʾAwzāʿī saying, ‘It has reached me that on the Day of Resurrection it will be said to a servant, ‘Stand up and take your due right from so and so.’ So he will reply saying, ‘[But] I’m not owed any rights from him.’ So it will be said, ‘But you are. He mentioned you on such and such a day saying this and this.’’’”
Shuʿab al-Īmān, p. 98.
Aḥmad ibn Hanbal’s Mercy
November 30, 2023 § Leave a comment
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥussain ibn ʿAbdullah al-Khiraqī said, “I spent the night along with Aḥmad ibn Hanbal. I never saw him sleep, he just cried until the morning. So I said, ‘Abū ʿAbdullah, you cried a lot this night, what happened?’ He said, ‘I remembered how al-Muʿtaṣim beat me and I came across this āyah in the dars, ‘And the retribution for an evil act is an evil one like it, but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation—his reward is [due] from Allāh,’ [42:40] so I prostrated and in the sajdah I forgave him for beating me.’”
Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad, p. 467.
The Story of the Passing of ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī The Oud Expert
November 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
“ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī the owner of the famous chain of Oud perfume stores had a daughter who was to get married. ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad saw his father in a dream where he told him, ‘You will visit us after five.’
So he woke up and couldn’t tell if what he meant was five days, weeks, months or years, all the while feeling as though his time was coming to an end. So he told his family to speed up his daughter’s wedding.
Then when the Imām of his mosque was absent for one of the prayers ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad led them instead. In the first rakʿah after Fātiḥah he read Sūrah al-Lail and cried heavily when he read the verse, ‘And their wealth will be of no benefit to them when they tumble ˹into Hell˺.’ [92:11]
Then in the second rakʿah he read Sūrah aḍ-Ḍuḥā and when he read, ‘And proclaim the blessings of your Lord,’ [93:11] he passed away [in Ṣalāh].
And that was five months after he had seen that dream.
The author was told this by ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī’s son, Anas ibn ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī.”
Multaqaṭāt al-ʿUwayyid, vol. 3, p. 184.
Al-Fawzaan Asked About the Jinn and Throwing Out Hot Water without Mentioning Allaah’s Name
November 25, 2023 § Leave a comment
They Used to Hate Their Prophets
November 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Jews used to hate their Prophets, so how will their hatred for the believers be?”
Daqāʾiqut-Tafsīr, vol. 2, p. 66.
Manners Related to the Mosque
November 16, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “So whoever is one of the first people to come to the mosque but then doesn’t stand in the front row has opposed the Sharīʿah.”
Majmūʿul-Fatāwā, vol. 22, p. 262.
Fāimah Daughter of Imām Mālik · Compare with Sisters on Display all over YouTube Giving ‘Daʿwah’
November 14, 2023 § Leave a comment
Az-Zubairī said, “[Imām] Mālik used to have a daughter who had memorized his knowledge, ‘his knowledge’ referring to the Muwaṭaʾ. She would stand behind the door and so when the person reading it [to Imām Mālik] would make a mistake she would knock the door and Mālik would take note and correct him.”
Tartīb al-Madārik, 1/48, and Ad-Dībāj al-Madhhab, p. 18.
On Showing Joy at the Calamities that Befall a Muslim
November 13, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “And among the major sins: showing joy and happiness at the harm that comes to Muslims and gloating at their misfortune.”
Madārijus-Sālikīn, vol. 1, p. 133.