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February, 2022

• 7 February

  ‘Isa (‘alayhis salam) congratulates those who recite the Divine Book and act upon its injunctions

  Question Kindly mention the reference for this narration as well as the Arabic text: “A woman passed by Jesus, and she said: Blessed is the womb of your pregnancy and the breast of your suckling. He said: Blessed is the one who reads the Qur’an and follows what is in it.”
• 4 February

  An unreliable narration on fasting and offering four rak’ahs of Salah in Rajab

  Question Is this Hadith authentic? Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Whoever fasts a day in Rajab and offers four rak’ahs of Salah in it reciting in each rak’ah a hundred times Ayatul Kursi and in the second rak’ah a hundred times Surah Ikhlas will not die until he sees his place in Jannah.
• 3 February

  Reciting Ya Mu’izzu after Maghrib Salah on Friday

  Question Someone recommended reading Ya Mu’izzu (يا معز) thirty or forty times after the Friday Maghrib Salah. Is this an authentic practice?
• 3 February

  The reward for giving someone milk or lending an animal to use the milk

  Question Where is this virtue from? “Want the reward of setting a slave free? Give milk!”
• 2 February

  Arabic text for the narration on the virtue of sending salutations [durud] one hundred times

  Question I am looking for the reference and Arabic text of the Hadith wherein it appears to the effect that the person who recites salutations [durud] 100 times daily, Allah Ta’ala will write on his forehead, ‘freedom from hypocrisy and freedom from the fire and he will be kept with the martyrs’.
• 2 February

  The virtue of Nabi Yunus (‘alayhis salam)

  Question I am looking for the text of the Hadith you have answered regarding Nabi Yunus (‘alayhis salam) here.
• 1 February

  Iman has over sixty or seventy branches

  Question Is the translation of this Hadith correct? Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Faith has over seventy branches or over sixty branches, the most excellent of which is the declaration that there is no god but Allah, and the lowest of which is the removal of what is harmful from the path; and modesty is a branch of faith.”-Bukhari
• 1 February

  Nabi’s (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) du’a for the person who gave him milk to drink

  Question What is the status of this narration? عن عمرو بن الحمق الخزاعي أنه سقى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لبنا، فقال: اللهم أمتعه بشبابه فمرت عليه ثمانون سنة لم ير شعرة بيضاء
• 1 February

  ‘Afifud Din Al Kazaruni

  Question Mulla ‘Ali Qari refers to ‘Afifi Al-Kazaruni in Mirqat. Who is this Scholar?

December, 2021

• 17 December

  Commentary of the Hadith on the foresight of a Believer

  Question What is the explanation of ‘firasah’ and is the Hadith “Beware the firasah of a believer” suitable to quote?
• 17 December

  Publicise/Announce the nikah and perform it in the Masjid

  Question Is this Hadith authentic? أعلنوا هذا النكاح واجعلوه في المساجد
• 16 December

  The status of the Hadith narrator, Yazid ibn Talq

  Question I am looking for information regarding the status of the Hadith narrator Yazid ibn Talq. Is he a reliable narrator? I saw his narration in Sunan Ibn Majah.
• 16 December

  A mistranslation of a Hadith on the virtue of growing a strand of white hair in the path of Allah

  Question Is this narration correct? Spending one’s youth in the path of Allah Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “A person will be blessed with perfect light on the Day of Qiyamah when he spends his youth in the path of Allah.” Sunan Nasai from Sayyiduna ‘Amr ibn ‘Abasah, Hadith: 3142