Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Meanings and Significance of a Hadith about Creation on Weekdays

5 Comments / Hadith reports explained /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This article delves into an intriguing hadith recorded in Sahih Muslim, which outlines the creation of various entities on all seven weekdays. By examining the reliability of the hadith’s chain of narrators and addressing objections to its authenticity, this study presents a case for its credibility. Moreover, the article aims to […]

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Plague-Mecca-Medina

Hadith and Protection of Makkah and Madina from Plague

10 Comments / Hadith reports explained /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract The article is about hadith reports mentioning protection for Makkah and Madina from plague. Relevant reports have been critically analysed to show how the spread of pandemics such as COVID-19 to Makkah and Madina casts no aspersions on sayings authentically reported from Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). [divider]  1. Introduction We have earlier explored

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Ijtihad

Misreading or Ijtihad: Origins of the Later Hanafi Opinion on Blasphemy

1 Comment / Islamic Jurisprudence /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract That Ibn ‘Âbidīn attributed the Later Hanafi Position that repentance of a person who blasphemes the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) shall not be accepted in any case to a misreading by al-Bazzāzī has been picked up by modernists/liberals calling for the repeal of Pakistan’s contested Blasphemy Laws. This paper seeks to

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