Category: Sīrah
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Allāh’s sustaining of His creation is of two types: (Paraphrased from the tafsīr of Shaykh ‘Abdur Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir As-Saʿdī رحمه الله)
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It is very common these days for people to go out for a meal with friends and/or family; order some takeout and gather somewhere to eat, or just go for a dessert. This presents a great opportunity to practice upon a Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ and a very rewarding good deed: feeding people. In…
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Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه narrates that the Prophet ﷺ sent a cavalry towards Najd, and it brought back with it a man from the Banū Ḥanīfah tribe, known as Thumāmah ibn Uthāl, whom they tied to a pillar of the Masjid. The Prophet ﷺ came to him and asked, “O Thumāmah! What do you…
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imām Muslim رحمه الله narrates on the authority of Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ once entered the graveyard (of Baqī‘) and proclaimed, “Peace be upon you O [People of] the residence of the believing people! We shall soon be joining you, Allāh-willing.” He then stated,…
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A common question that arises in the minds of many students of Sīrah is that when Jibra’īl first came with revelation to the Prophet ﷺ, and commanded him to read, the Prophet ﷺ replied with: ما أنا بِقارِئ, which literally means, ‘I am not a reader’. It is common knowledge that the Prophet ﷺ could…
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Ibn Hishām, a famous scholar of sīrah, narrates from Ḥalīmah As-Sa‘dīyyah رضي الله عنها that she, together with her husband and baby son – whom she was breast-feeding, left with a few women of the Banū Sa‘d tribe in search of children to be suckled. She says: “It had been a year of severe drought,…
