A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihab az-Zuhri ( r.a. ) reported, from Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sakhr ad-Dawsi az-Zahrani al-Azdi ( r.a. ) and Sayyidina Abu Sa’id Sa’id ibn Malik al-Khazraji al-Khudri ( r.a. ), that they narrated that the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ) said, “Allah ( s.w.t. ) Says, ‘Pride is My Cloak, and Glory is My Lower Garment, so whoever contends with Me regarding either one of them, I will Torment him.’”   Imam Abu Sulayman Hamd ibn Muhammad al-Khaththabi ( r.a. ) said, “This means that pride and greatness are two Attributes of Allah ( s.w.t. ) that He Alone is Particularised with, no one shares them with Him, no Created being should have them because the Attribute of the created is humility and lowness.  Allah ( s.w.t. ) has Set the cloak and the lower garment as an example; no one shares his cloak, or his lower garment with another person.  Likewise, Allah ( s.w.t. ) does not share His Pride ...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ It is recorded, in Swahih al-Bukhari , that Sayyidina Abu Sa’id Sa’id ibn Malik al-Khazraji al-Khudri ( r.a. ) narrated that when Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abu Thalib ( k.w. ) was in Yemen, he sent some gold ore to the Prophet ( s.a.w. ).  The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) distributed it among al-Aqra’ ibn Habis al-Hanzali who belonged to Bani Mujashi, Sayyidina ‘Uyaynah ibn Hiswn ibn Hudzayfah ibn Badr al-Fazhari ( r.a. ), ‘Alqamah ibn ‘Ulatsah al-‘Amiri ( r.a. ), who belonged to the Bani Kilab, and Zayd al-Khayl ibn Muhalhil at-Tha’i ( r.a. ), who belonged to Bani Nabhan.   The Quraysh and the Answar became angry, and said, “He gives to the chiefs of Najd and leaves us!”   The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “I wanted to attract and unite their hearts.”   Then there came a man, Dzu al-Khuwayrah, with sunken eyes, bulging forehead, thick beard, fat raised cheeks, and clean-shaven head, and said, “O Muhammad!  Fear Allah!”   The Prophet ( s.a....

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ It is a myth that women make less reliable witnesses according to the Qur’an or the ahadits .   We can cite two main reasons for this: terrible translations, and ingrained misogyny.   Furthermore, the problem is primarily literal translations without context, and understanding the circumstances of the narration in relation to related ones to discern the Prophetic intent.   One of our problems with translations of the Qur’an, ahadits , indeed much of the material of the religious sciences, is that translators may have facility in both languages, but that does not mean they have facility with literary and rhetorical devices, or some mastery of the actual religious science.   Good translations are difficult to find, and may translations are rubbish.   For example, consider hadits 826 from Swahih al-Bukhari :   حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي زَيْدٌ، عَنْ عِيَاض...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Among the miracles of Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) is the story about the wolf that spoke and testified that Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) is the Messenger of Allah.  Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal ( r.a. ) narrated it from Sayyidina Abu Sa’id Sa’id ibn Malik al-Khazraji al-Khudri ( r.a. ) with a sound chain of transmission.   In this narration, Sayyidina Abu Sa’id al-Khudri ( r.a. ) said, “Once, when a shepherd was grazing his sheep in al-Harrah, a wolf came to eat one of his sheep.  The shepherd stood between the wolf and the sheep to prevent the wolf from attacking the sheep.  The wolf sat on his tail and spoke to the shepherd.  It said, ‘Do you not fear Allah?  You prevent me from the sustenance which Allah has Prepared for me.’   The shepherd said, ‘What an astonishing thing!  A wolf sitting on its tail is speaking in the speech of humans!’   The wolf continued, ‘Let me tell you about something even ...