By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الإصطفا لبيان معاني الشفا Vols: 6 Author: الإمام شمس الدين محمد بن محمد الدلجي Publisher: الفتح-عمان Cover & Pages: Hard-2936pg “This edition presents one of the finest commentaries on Al-Shifāʾ bi-Taʿrīf Ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafā by the eminent Mālikī scholar al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544 AH), the celebrated work devoted to the rights, virtues, nobleContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: al-Iṣṭifā li-Bayān Maʿānī al-Shifā”
Category Archives: Hadith
Book Spotlight: al-Futūḥāt al-Rabbāniyyah ʿala al-Adhkār al-Nawāwiyyah by Ibn ʿAllān
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:ContinueContinue 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 ofContinueContinue 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 theContinueContinue 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 ofContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt by Imam al-Bayhaqī”
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 struckContinueContinue reading “Seven Commitments in Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranpūrī’s Badhl al-Majhūd”
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