By Aqeel al-Hindi One of the charges against the people of hadith is that their role within Islamic scholastics is one of compilation and transcription of the Sunnah for its benefit as a legislative source for those with the tools who fully understand it and can use it. Those …
Read More »Imam al-Bukhari was a; Muwahhid, Salafi & Athari, Not a Muqallid, Partisan or Blind Follower of any Madhhab – He was Upon the Madhhab of Ahlul Hadith
Compiled by Abu Hibban Many claim that Imām Bukhārī was an Ashʿarī, Ṣūfī, or a fanatic to a particular Madhhab, or … and the claims continue! Yet the most authentic book accepted by all the Muslims after the Quran Imam Bukhārī’s ‘Ṣaḥīḥ’ completely contradicts what the claimant’s state. What follows …
Read More »[Biography] – The Allamah and Muhaddith of this Era, Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Ghondalwi (d.1405H/1985) – Some Memories; Some Observations – Shaykh Irshad ul-Haq Athari
Translated and Annotated Abu Khuzaimah Ansari (This biography from is Maqalat Irshad ul-Haq Athari, 4:369-403, which I have very slightly adapted) [tn. introduction: This a very brief biography of Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Ghondalwi by his astute and perceptive student, Shaykh Irshad ul-Haq Athari. We find that the true people of …
Read More »[Sharh Muwatta Imam Malik – Shaikh Zubair Ali Zai] – Hadith No.155 –:– Seven Types of Blessed People
Itihaf ul-Basim Fi Tahqiq Muwatta al-Imam Malik [Talkhis al-Qabisi] Riwayah Abdur Rahman ibn al-Qasim Tahqiq, Takhrij, Sharh Muhadith Zubair Ali Zai Translated Abu Ubaydah Translated, Checked & Additional Notes Abu Hibban & Abu Khuzaimah Ansaari Seven Types of Blessed People [155] From Malik from Khubaib Ibn Abdirahman from Hafs Ibn Asim from …
Read More »When Were Hadith Written – Shaikh Muhammad Ghondalwi (1405H)
Compiled, Translated and Annotated Abu Khuzaimah Ansari [This is an excerpt from the forthcoming Sharh of Bukhari by Shaikh Muhammad Ghondalwi (1405H), short passages are being presented for the avid reader] Some foolish people think the prophetic hadith was written in the third islamic century and that written hadith …
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