What will be the first act inquired about or decided on on the Day of Judgment? A hadith related by ‘Abdullah b. Mas‘ud (d. 32-33/653) says: قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: «أول ما يقضى بين الناس بالدماء» ~ The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The cases which will be decided first (on the Day of Resurrection) Read more
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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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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract The story of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) allegedly falling in love with his cousin and wife of his adopted son Zaid, Zainab bt. Jahsh, has been a subject of a lot of disputation for centuries. It is generally discussed in connection with Qur’an 33:37. In this paper an effort has been made to
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Sharif Muhammad Jabir Translated by Waqar Akbar Cheema Translator’s Note: While I had considered translating this write-up ever since I read it on Al-Jazeera Blog the immediate impetus has been a disastrous article by one Atabek Shukurov whose work “Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith” I reviewed back in 2015. Although I plan to make a
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