Ibn Saad

Akhbar Asbahan

Mistake or Mischief? Dedering and a report on the Prophet’s marriage with ‘Aisha

1 Comment / Hadith Research /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Muslim scholars commenting on Orientalists’ contribution to the study of Islam acknowledge that they edited and published and thus introduced scores of classical works of Muslim scholarship that had been out of broad reach for centuries. No doubt Orientalists did make a significant contribution on this account, and its significance outweighs any Read more

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Two Issues Around Prophet Muhammad’s Marriage With Safiyya

2 Comments / The Prophet: Life and Actions /

Waqar Akbar Cheema 1. Introduction Prophet Muhammad’s (ﷺ) marriage with Safiyya bint Huyayy from the Jewish tribe of Nadir has been of regular interest to modern Western critics, missionaries, and orientalists. The objections are mostly raised on two accounts: (i) The marriage was solemnized in the aftermath of the conquest of the last Jewish stronghold

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Muhammad-Jauniyya

Truth about Jauniyya, the woman who sought refuge from the Prophet (ﷺ)

4 Comments / The Prophet: Life and Actions /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This article is about an academic inquiry into arguments around a Jauniyya woman’s mysterious and bizarre behaviour in the presence of the Prophet (ﷺ) in their first meeting after marriage. The interaction was brief yet odd and it culminated in immediate divorce. The nature of interaction made individual reports about it,

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Aspects of Wisdom in Prophet Muhammad’s Multiple Marriages

2 Comments / The Prophet: Life and Actions /

Waqar Akbar Cheema [divider] 1. Introduction Non-Muslims often ask as to why the Prophet Muhammad had more wives than allowed for other Muslim men.[1] Some of them use this to allege that it was his sensual passion that made the Prophet of Islam not merely polygamous it also got him to break the laws he

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Prophets-Mosque

Marriage Related Privileges of the Prophet: A Study in Chronology

4 Comments / The Prophet: Life and Actions /

 Waqar Akbar Cheema[divider]  Abstract The question about Prophet Muhammad’s (ﷺ) alleged inconsistency in taking more wives than allowed for Muslim men has generally been responded to by alluding to the Qur’anic verses that granted him certain marriage related privileges. The summary response, though correct, has faded some historical facts of Prophet’s (ﷺ) life bearing on

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