Tag Archives: Knowledge

July, 2021

• 29 July

  Knowledge will be lifted through the demise of Scholars

  Question Is this Hadith authentic? “Knowledge will be snatched away by the taking away of scholars along with their knowledge leaving behind ignorant people who will be asked to settle matters and they will do so on the basis of their personal views, thus being misguided and misguiding others.”

April, 2021

• 27 April

  Abud Darda’s (radiyallahu ‘anhu) du’a asking for perpetual Iman

  Question What is the reference for this du’a of Sayyiduna Abud Darda (radiyallahu ‘anhu)? اللهم إني أسألك إيمانا دائما وعلما نافعا وهديا قيما

March, 2021

• 30 March

  Caution against seeking knowledge merely to argue and debate

  Question Please provide a narration together with the Arabic text that specifically speaks about seeking knowledge just to argue with others and prove one’s point.

February, 2021

• 15 February

  “Accompany the intelligent, and you will be regarded to be part of them”

  Question What is the reference and Arabic text for this narration? Also, who is it attributed to? ‘Abdullah said: “My father said to me, ‘O my son, accompany the intelligent, and indeed you will be ascribed to them, even if you are not from them! And do not accompany the ignoramuses, lest you are ascribed to them, even if you …

January, 2021

• 28 January

  Authenticity of the narration regarding the grave of a scholar

  Question What is the authenticity of this narration? “Seek [knowledge] and teach it to people, for I will certainly illuminate the grave of the teacher and the seeker so that they do not feel desolate.”
• 26 January

  The scholar’s grave will be illuminated

  Question What is the status of the following narration? “When a scholar (‘aalim) passes away, Allah gives his knowledge a form. That form becomes his friend and companion till the day of Qiyamah and repels the vermin and pests from him.” (Daylami)

December, 2020

• 24 December

  Teaching women to write

  Question There is a Hadith that says don’t teach women ‘kitabat’ (to write). (Al-Mishkat and Abu Dawud) First of all what did Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) mean by ‘kitabat’? Is it the compilation of books? I read in the explanation of this Hadith in the book ‘Behnon ki Chadar’ by Abu Talha Muhammad Yunus that it means: Do not teach …

October, 2020

• 26 October

  Meaning of ‘good’ in the Hadith regarding the virtue of knowledge

  Question What type of knowledge is being referred to in the following Hadith? إن الله وملائكته وأهل السماوات والأرض حتى النملة في جحرها، وحتى الحوت، ليصلون على معلّم الناس الخير

August, 2020

• 26 August

  The chapter in Zadut Talibin on the prophecies of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam)

  Question Regarding the chapter, ذكر بعض المغيبات, in Zadut Talibin, would it be correct to say that all of the Hadiths in that section are signs of Qiyamah?
• 19 August

  Abu ‘Amr ibnul ‘Ala gauged intelligence on a person being occupied reading books

  Question What is the correct reference for this? Abul ‘Ala said: “I never entered upon a man or passed by his door -seeing him with a book in his hand,and his companion doing nothing- except that I judged him to be the more intelligent one” (Ibn ‘Abdil Barr)
• 18 August

  Do the virtues of seeking knowledge apply to secular education?

  Question In the following Hadith: من سلك طريقًا يلتمس فيه علمًا سهل الله له طريقًا إلى الجنة Whosoever sets out in search of knowledge, Allah Ta’ala will ease the way to Jannah for him. What is meant by ‘knowledge’ in this Hadith? Is it specifically the seekers of Islamic/Shar’i knowledge or is worldly knowledge also included in this like engineering for …

July, 2020

• 27 July

  Preservation of the knowledge of Din during each generation

  Question Kindly provide some commentary on the following Hadith: ‘This sacred knowledge will be borne by the reliable authorities of each successive generation, who will [preserve it and] remove from it the alterations of the excessive, the interpolations of the corrupt, and the false interpretations of the ignorant.’

June, 2020

• 11 June

  The scholars intercession on the Day of Qiyamah

  Question What is authenticity of following narration? يبعث العالم والعابد، فيقال للعابد: ادخل الجنة، ويقال للعالم: اثبت حتى تشفع للناس بما أحسنت أدبهم