Tafsir

When Eagerness Crowds In: A Misread Hadith Explained

1 Comment / Hadith reports explained /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract A narration from Musnad Ahmad has been mistranslated and sensationalised by polemicists. This piece shows, through lexical evidence, variant narrations, Qur’anic parallels, and classical commentary, that the report describes the jinn crowding around the Prophet (ﷺ) to hear the Qur’an — not the crude insinuations imposed on it. 1. Introduction Some critics […]

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Thanwi: Expressive Guidance on Delving into Qur’anic Eloquence

Leave a Comment / Qur'an Preservation & Compilation, Quran: Alleged Problems and Contradictions /

Maulana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanwi[1] Translated by Waqar Akbar Cheema On June 18, 1937, the Amritsar weekly Akhbar Ahle Hadith published an edict about a scholar from Azamgarh, UP, India, who had opined that the Qur’an contained some words that were not grammatically and rhetorically the best choice in their respective contexts but were nevertheless used

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Prophet-and-Abyad

Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and the devil named al-Abyad

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Waqar Akbar Cheema Some people refer to certain quotes from Islamic exegetical literature mentioning a devil named al-Abyad. Firstly, it needs to be clarified that mention of a devil named al-Abyad is very rare in the Islamic literature of all genres. A contemporary scholar noted: Al-Abyad does not seem ever to have become a major

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