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Weekly Reminder #1: Be Merciful

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 …

Quality of Narrators

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 …

Authenticity of Hadith

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 …