Hadith Answers An online source for Hadith Fatwas
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Is the following Hadith authentic?
Verily, carrying tales and bearing malice are the deeds of Jahannam and they both cannot be gathered in a Muslim’s heart
Prohibitions
The prohibition of begging
An unauthentic Hadith warning against hating the Ahlul Bayt
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Is the following narration authentic?
Sayyiduna Hasan ibn ‘Ali (radiyallahu ‘anhuma) said, ‘Beware of hating us for Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) has said:
‘On the Day of Qiyamah, those who hated us or were jealous of us will be driven away from the pond of Kawthar with whips of fire.’
A follow up query on a Hadith in Majalisul Abrar
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Shaykh Zakariya (rahimahullah) said that this narration has been mentioned in the book Majālis al-Abrār.
I have been unable to find this narration amongst the collections of ahādīth that are available to me.
However, the Shaykh of our Mashāikh, Shāh `Abd al-`Azīz Dahlawī (rahimahullāh), has praised this book. my question is is such an approach acceptable from scholars of Islam?
Especially in a book which is written for laymen?
Is this narration authentic? or are salafis correct for saying this is a fabricated narration?
Warnings against quoting fabricated narrations
A severe warning for disclosing one’s sins
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Kindly translate the following Hadith and provide the reference:
كل أمتي معافاة إلا المجاهرين وإن من الإجهار أن يعمل العبد بالليل عملا ثم يصبح قد ستره ربه فيقول: يا فلان قد عملت البارحة كذا وكذا وقد بات يستره ربه فيبيت يستره ربه ويصبح يكشف ستر الله عنه
Hadith explaining the best thing for a woman
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Is the following authentic?
Once when Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) asked Sayyidatuna Fatimah (radiyallahu ‘anha), “What is best for women?”
She spontaneously responded: “That no male sees her nor does she see any male.”
Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) was so elated with her apt response that he commented:
“Fatimah is a piece of my flesh.”
Hadith commanding one to abstain from the fitnahs of the world
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Kindly inform if the following is a Hadith:
‘Fear the fitnahs and trials of the Dunya and fear the fitnah of women’
Hadith: ‘A little showing off is polytheism…’
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What is the grade of the following Hadith?
Sayyiduna ‘Umar ibn Khattab (radiyallahu ‘anu) went out one day to the masjid of the Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), and he found Sayyiduna Mu’adh ibn Jabal sitting by the grave of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), weeping. He said: ‘Why are you weeping?’ Sayyiduna Mu’adh replied: ‘I am weeping because of something that I heard from the Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam). I heard Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) say:
‘A little showing off is polytheism (shirk) and whoever shows enmity towards a friend of Allah has declared war on Allah. Allah loves those who are righteous, pious and (outwardly) lowly -those who if they are absent, are not missed, and if they are present, are not acknowledged-. Their hearts are lamps of guidance and they come out from every dark place (ie. from every trial and tribulation)’
Signs of Qiyamah
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What is the status of this narration?
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said:
- When public money is passed around like own money
- Trust is taken as booty (i.e. intention is to use it and refuse to return it)
- Zakah is seen as a tax
- Knowledge of Din is acquired for reasons other than spreading the Din
- A man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother
- Draws his friends close and distances his father
- Voices are raised in the Masajid
- Tribes are led by their wicked
- The leader of the community is the most despicable among them
- A person is respected for fear of his reprisals
- Singing girls and musical instruments become widespread
- Intoxicants are consumed
- The latter of this Ummah will curse their former
Then anticipate dangerous hurricanes, earthquakes, collapsing of the earth, disfigurement of bodies and faces, raining of stones, and such signs that follow in succession like beads of a necklace when the string is cut and so they (the beads) fall in succession.
Hadith: Three things which whether undertaken seriously or in jest, are treated as serious
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What is the grade of this narration?
Three matters done in seriousness are serious and their being done jokingly are serious; marriage, divorce and taking back a wife.
Status of children buried alive in Jahiliyyah
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What is the grade of the following Hadith and what does it mean?
Sayyiduna Salamah ibn Yazid Al Ju’fi (radiyallahu ‘anhu) said:
‘My brother and I came to the Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) and said that our mother had passed away during jahiliyyah, she use to honour her guests, upheld the ties of kinship, and did such and such good, but she had buried alive a sister of ours during jahiliyyah who had not reached the age of puberty.
Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sllam) said:
‘The one who was buried and the one who buried her are in Jahannam, unless Islam reached the one who buried the child alive and she became a Muslim.’
Allah Ta’ala curses four types of people
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What is the grade of this narration?
Sayyiduna Abut Tufayl (radiyallahu ‘anhu) says:
Sayyiduna Ali (radiyallahu ‘anhu) was asked, ‘Did Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) give you something special which he did not give to anyone else?’ He replied, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), did not give me anything special which he did not give to everyone else except for what I have in my sword scabbard.’
He brought out a piece of paper. Written on that paper was: ‘Allah curses anyone who sacrifices an animal for anyone besides Allah. Allah curses anyone who steals the signposts (demarcating the boundary lines of the) land . Allah curses anyone who curses his parents. Allah curses anyone who gives shelter to an innovator.’