Mawlid an-Nabi: Evidence from Qur’an & Sunnah
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is an article providing comprehensive evidence of the Mawlid . It is taken from “ Mawlid an-Nabi : Evidence from Qur’an & Sunnah ; the Salaf & the Khalaf ” by Ustadz Kamran Faruq on 02 nd January 2012. The Mawlid as it is celebrated today did not exist in the first three generations of Islam’s history, and so according to the literal sense, it is an innovation, a bid’ah . However, as we have seen on the understanding of innovation as it applies to the fundamentals of Islamic jurisprudence, the Salaf and the scholars after them such as Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi’i ( r.a. ), Imam Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi ( r.a. ) and so forth defined reprehensible innovations as those things which both: did not exist in the time of the Prophet ( s.a.w. ), and cannot be inferred from a primary basis in the Qur’an or sunnah . Both of these conditions have to be met for somethin...