Latest Answers

November, 2020

• 25 November

  Did Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) have a cat named Muezza?

  Question Is there any authentic/sound narration supporting that Nabi’s (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) favourite cat was named Muezza/Mu’izza?
• 25 November

  Ninety nine snakes in the grave of the disbeliever

  Question How sound is the Hadith in Ibn Hibban reported by Abu Sa’id Khudri (radiyallahu ‘anhu) regarding ninety nine (99) snakes in grave of a disbeliever?
• 25 November

  An unreliable virtue of walking with a cane

  Question Is this narration reliable? Virtue of walking with an ‘Asa (cane) “Walking with a stick is from humility. For each step, a person gets a thousand good deeds, and raising him a thousand levels.”
• 25 November

  Reciting Quran, praising Allah, sending salutations and seeking forgiveness

  Question Is this narration suitable to quote? قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: من قرأ القرآن وحمد الرب، وصلى على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، واستغفر ربه فقد طلب الخير مكانه
• 24 November

  Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas (radiyallahu ‘anhu) chooses to remain aloof during the time of fitnah

  Question What is the explanation of the following part of the Hadith? فقال له: أنزلت في إبلك وغنمك، وتركت الناس يتنازعون الملك بينهم؟ The complete Hadith is as follows: حدثني عامر بن سعد، قال: كان سعد بن أبي وقاص في إبله، فجاءه ابنه عمر، فلما رآه سعد قال: أعوذ بالله من شر هذا الراكب، فنزل فقال له: أنزلت في إبلك …
• 24 November

  Those who engage in indecent talk and those who listen/spread it are equal in sin

  Question What is the reference for this Hadith? “The one who speaks obscene vile talk and the one who hears it are equal in the sin.”
• 23 November

  People will remain on good as long as they do not delay Maghrib

  Question What is the source of this Hadith? لا تزال أمتي بخير -أو قال على الفطرة- ما لم يؤخروا المغرب إلى أن تشتبك النجوم
• 23 November

  Humans and Jinn would be unable to lift an iron hammer from Jahannam

  Question How sound is the Hadith in Mustadrak Hakim (8773) that if one iron hammer from hell is kept on earth whole humans and jinn together will not be able to lift it?
• 23 November

  A query regarding a weak narrator in Sunan Tirmidhi

  Question In your answer here, you have stated that Imam Tirmidhi (rahimahullah) has declared the Hadith weak. But how is that when all the narrators are in Bukhari and Muslim?
• 23 November

  Quranic verses which express that Allah is the creator of everything

  Question Kindly provide examples from the Quran where Allah Ta’ala clearly expresses that He is the creator of everything and that there was nothing before Him.
• 20 November

  Whomsoever loves the Masjid, Allah will love and protect him

  Question Is the following virtue of loving the masjid narrated in Al-Mu’jamul-Awsat suitable to quote? Man alifal masjid alifahullah
• 19 November

  The different versions of the Tashahhud

  Question Please help me with this question: Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibnuz Zubayr from Abdar Rahman ibn Abdal Qari that he heard Umar ibnul Khattab say, while he was teaching people the tashahhud from the mimbar, “Say, Greetings belong to Allah. Pure actions belong to Allah. Good words and prayers belong to Allah. …
• 19 November

  Difference between ذر and نملة

  Question Regarding the following chapter and Hadith in Sunan Abi Dawud, what is the difference between ذر and نملة? باب فى قتل الذر عن أبي هريرة:رضي الله عنه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: نزَل نبيٌّ مِن الأنبياءِ تحت شجَرةٍ فلدغَتْهُ نملةٌ، فأمَر بجَهازِهِ فأُخرِجَ مِن تَحتِها، ثمَّ أمَر فأُحرِقَتْ، فأوحى اللهُ إليه: فهلّا نَملةً واحدةً؟! (Sunan Abi Dawud, …