Previously "The Hadith Disciple"
Some common questions of students going into Bukhārī year (final year of the Nizāmī curriculum) are: How should I prepare? Which commentaries should I invest in? Which books should I refer to for further reading and research? Below is my humble attempt at listing a few tips that came to mind…
Ḥukm al-ʿAmal bi al-Ḥadīth ʿinda ‘l-Muḥaddithīn wa ‘l-Fuqahāʾ by Shaykh ʿAbdul Fattāḥ al-Yāfiʿī is an excellent contemporary work on the ruling of using ḍaʿīf aḥādīth (weak narrations). It summarises the multifaceted discussions on the topic in only 60 pages, making it easy for the reader to become acquainted with the main points on the topic.
Division of differences: The author of this book, Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAwwāmah explains that differences of opinion can be divided into three categories:
Differences in religion (the core principles of ʿaqīdah which are decisive and clear-cut
Differences in secondary matters of ʿaqīdah
Differences in matters of fiqh…
A man married his first wife, they had children, and then grandchildren. He thereafter got married to a second wife. Your question is whether his first wife’s (and his own) grandsons are maḥram (unmarriageable) to his second wife.
When studying the anatomy of the uterus, the cervix forms the entrance of the uterus, and is joined to the uterus. Majority of the fluid experienced by a woman is the mucus of the cervix.
When a muḥaddith says “هذا حديث صحيح” it means that that ḥadīth meets…
The first person known to write a commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī is ʿAllāmah Khaṭṭābī [319-388 AH] (raḥimahullāh)…
Al-Ḥadīth Al-Gharīb is that hadith which has been transmitted by a single narrator…
Firstly, a medical doctor must take every means prior to starting their career to receive permission to break for the performance of their ṣalāh throughout the day in the hospital. However, considering that some medical doctors are required to carry out long hours of surgeries and tend to patients regularly, they must consider the following in order…
The ruling of a premature child consuming milk from a milk bank comes into question due to the ambiguity concerning the donor(s). The general practice of milk banks is that all the donated milk (which is usually from 3-5 donor mothers) is pooled together without labeling who the donors are.
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