Translated & Annotated Abu Khuzaimah Ansari Allah said, “Oh, you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last …
Read More »[Biography] – Shaykh Muhammad Isma’il as-Salafi (d.1387/1968)
Compiled, Annotated & Translated Abu Khuzaimah Ansari A Brief Biography of Shaykh Muhammad Isma’il as-Salafi[1] His Birth According to the most reliable reports he was born in 1314H corresponding to 1895CE in a place called Dhawnaki in Wazirabad. The Shaykh’s family had been seeking knowledge for a few generations …
Read More »[Biography] – Shaykh Muhammad Abdullah al-A’zami (d.1441/2020)
Compiled by Abu Khuzaimah Ansari He was born in a hindu family in 1943 in Bilariyaganj, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh in India. He was named Banke Ram. After converting to Islam he was called Imam ud-Din which he later changed to Dhiya ur-Rahman, a name he was well known …
Read More »[Fatwa] – Is it from the Manhaj of the Salaf to criticise or rebuke the rulers from the Minbars? What is the Manhaj of the Salaf in advising rulers?- Shaykh Abdul Aziz b. Abdullah b. Baz
Translated & Annotated Abu Khuzaimah Ansari Question 10: Is it from the Manhaj of the Salaf to criticise or rebuke the rulers from the Minbars? And what is the Manhaj of the Salaf in advising rulers? The honourable Shaykh Abdul Aziz b. Abdullah b. Baz said, Answer: 10 It …
Read More »Resuming the Hadith Narrative – Imam Abu Mus’ab Ahmad b. Abu Bakr az-Zuhri (d.242H)
by Abu Khuzaimah Ansari Imām Abū Muṣʿab Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr az-Zuhrī (d.242H) He was the pioneering Imām of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth and Ahl al-Sunnah. Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī introduces him as ‘al-Imām al-Faqih’ – The leader and Jurist, the Madanī, from the formidable and versatile scholars and the Shaykh of …
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