Islamic Topics Explained in Detail
Always be careful who you take as your friends. Allāh ﷻ says when referring to Yawm Al-Qiyāmah: On that Day the evildoer will bite his own hand and say, “If only I had taken the same path as the Messenger. Woe to me! I wish I had never taken so-and-so as a close friend. It was he …
There is an authentic Ḥadīth narrated by Bukhārī (304, 1462, 2658) and Muslim (86), as well as other Ḥadīth scholars. It mentions the Prophet ﷺ as saying to a group of women: “I have not seen anyone with reductions in mind and religion more than you.” They asked: “What are our reductions in mind?” and he ﷺ said: “Is not …
Always remember to be kind and merciful towards other beings. A beautiful statement of the Prophet ﷺ highlights the virtue of this: ʿAbdullāh Ibn ʿAmr Ibn Al-ʿĀṣ narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: “The merciful people will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful on those on the earth, and the One in …
The scholars did an immense amount of research on each narrator, their lives, their teachers, their students, and their narrations to figure out if they were reliable and trustworthy. This is the level of importance they placed on making sure the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ would remain completely preserved. They set two different general …
Although we have many Aḥādīth, not all of them are authentic. Some may be narrated by weak narrators, some may be narrated by strong narrators and have mistakes, and some may be complete fabrications. Assuming that we wish to know how the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ practiced Islām, how do we we know which Aḥādīth from him …