By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الفتوحات الربانية على الأذكار النواوية-العلمية Vols: 4 Author: محمد علي الصديقي Publisher: العلمية-بيروت Cover & Pages: Hard-1808pg Imam Nawawi’s famous al-Adhkar is one of those accepted works, found in nearly every Arabic-Speaking Muslim home. The Mashaikh have emphasised its importance to the extent that the following become a popular saying:Continue reading "Book Spotlight: al-Futūḥāt al-Rabbāniyyah ʿala al-Adhkār al-Nawāwiyyah by Ibn ʿAllān"
Book Spotlight: Ḥayāt al-Ṣaḥābah with Shaykh Ilyās Bārabankwī’s Notes
By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: حياة الصحابة مع حاشية الشيخ إلياس Vols: 4 Author: محمد يوسف الكاندهلوي Publisher: ابن كثير-دمشق Cover & Pages: Hard-3558pg The Sahabah are our role models for every aspect of our lives. In emulating them lies our success and when we leave their way, we go astray. Thus, the dearth ofContinue reading "Book Spotlight: Ḥayāt al-Ṣaḥābah with Shaykh Ilyās Bārabankwī’s Notes"
Book Spotlight: al-Awsaṭ min al-Sunan wa-l-Ijmāʿ wa-l-Ikhtilāf by Ibn al-Mundhir
By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الأوسط من السنن والإجماع والاختلاف-ابن حزم Vols: 15 Author: ابن المنذر النيسابوري Publisher: ابن حزم-بيروت Cover & Pages: Hard-8209pg This is the masterpiece of the Mujtahid Imam, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Mundhir d.318ah, an expert muhaddith and faqih. This work is famous for the following: 1- It is one of theContinue reading "Book Spotlight: al-Awsaṭ min al-Sunan wa-l-Ijmāʿ wa-l-Ikhtilāf by Ibn al-Mundhir"
Book Spotlight: al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt by Imam al-Bayhaqī
By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الأسماء والصفات للبيهقي-التقوى Vols: 2 Author: أبي بكر أحمد البيهقي Publisher: التقوى-دمشق Cover & Pages: Hard-1644pg Around the 5th century hijri, a number of works had been authored in aqidah and sifat, that were unfortunately either inclined to ta’til and denial of the sifat of Allah Ta’ala or tashbih ofContinue reading "Book Spotlight: al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt by Imam al-Bayhaqī"
Book Review: What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa
Book Review –What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 290. Reviewed by Dr. Ashraf Dockrat Ebrahim Moosa, a leading theoretician behind critical/progressive Muslim thought and a graduate of the ‘alimiyya program at Dar ul-Ulum, Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, in the early 1980s, has gifted us with a much needed, personal account andContinue reading "Book Review: What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa"
Seven Commitments in Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranpūrī’s Badhl al-Majhūd
There is a quote attributed to Mawlānā Muḥammad ʿĀshiq Ilāhī al-Mīrathī, one of the close associates of Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Muhājir al-Madanī, the author of the monumental Sunan Abī Dāwūd commentary Badhl al-Majhūd, in the Tadhkirat al-Khalīl, p. 278 (which my mentor, Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Chishtī Ṣāḥib had helped to edit and arrange) that struckContinue reading "Seven Commitments in Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranpūrī’s Badhl al-Majhūd"
Ṭaḥāwī 