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Book Review: Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī: Chapters on Trade and Commerce Explained

Book Review by Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islam JĀMI῾ AL-TIRMIDHI: CHAPTERS ON TRADE AND COMMERCE EXPLAINED SHAYKH AL-ISLAM MUFTI MUHAMMAD TAQI USMANI Translated and annotated by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari  Author:  Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Translator:  Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari Publisher:  Turath Publishing…

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Book Review: Handbook of a Healthy Muslim Marriage

Review by Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islam Title:  Handbook of a Healthy Muslim Marriage Author:  Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera Editor:  N/A Genre:  Islamic marriage guide/fiqh of nikāḥ  Publisher:  White Thread Press (London) Year of publication:  2019 (1st edition) Number of pages:  262 THIS IS BY FAR the best book that I have seen on the subject. Out of the few that are generally…

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Recommended Reading List of Professor Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad)

Recommended Reading List of Professor Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad)

Recently, someone was searching for a suggested reading list for English books that I had posted some years ago. I was able to locate it for them, but also suggested that they consider searching for the reading lists of some of the most well-read Muslim scholars I am aware of. I was referring to a few reading lists that I have come across over the years, which I believe are quite robust and cover…

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ذكريات مع عملاق البحث والتحقيق سماحة العلامة الدكتور عبد الحليم النعماني

ذكريات مع عملاق البحث والتحقيق سماحة العلامة الدكتور عبد الحليم النعماني

ذكريات مع عملاق البحث والتحقيق سماحة العلامة الدكتور عبد الحليم النعماني سماحة الأستاذ المفتي محمد قاسم القاسمي مكثتُ في مدينة كراتشي ١٢ عاما أدرس، وسمعتُ حينئذ ما سمعت عن المحقق الكبير مولانا المحدّث الشيخ محمد عبد الرشيد النعماني، وعرفت من أعماله «ما تمس إليه الحاجة»، فتمنيتُ لقاءه والاستفادة منه، ولكن لم يقدّر لي ذلك، ثم في سفرٍ لي إلى باكستان وفّقتُ لزيارته، فاستقبلني بأيّما حبّ وحفاوة. ومما…

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A Short Arabic Biography of ʿAllāmah Dr. ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Nuʿmānī Chishtī by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zāhidānī

A Short Arabic Biography of ʿAllāmah Dr. ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Nuʿmānī Chishtī by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zāhidānī

I am posting a file of an Arabic biography of our shaykh. This is a more detailed biography than the one I wrote many years ago as a preface to one of his works. The work never got published and its title that I suggested but wasn’t completely approved. In fact, I would like to clarify that this piece also lists the title al-Imām al-Bukhārī bayna al-Ifrāṭ wa al-Tafrīṭ, which was my initial…

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Book Review: Mufti Rashīd Aḥmad Ludhyānwī's Irshād al-Qārī ilā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī

Book Review: Mufti Rashīd Aḥmad Ludhyānwī's Irshād al-Qārī ilā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī

Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi, Irshad al-Qari ila Sahih al-Bukhari, Karachi: Maktabat al-Khalij, pp.436

By Maulana Zeeshan Chaudri 

Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi (d.2002) was one of the senior Muftis in Pakistan during his life. He was born in Ludhiana in the year 1922 into a scholarly family. Ludhiana had been the location of many ‘ulama, famously being the first group to declare Mirza…

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Kitāb al-Arbaʿīn fī Uṣūl al-Dīn by Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī

Kitāb al-Arbaʿīn fī Uṣūl al-Dīn by Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī

كتاب الأربعين في أصول الدين ط. دار االمنهاج 1439\ 2017

تأليف: حجّة الإسلام الإمام أبي حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الغزالي الطوسي الطبراني الشافعي

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Imām Abu Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī needs no introduction to any Muslim. Popularly known by the title of ‘Ḥujjat al-Islām’(the proof of Islām), Imām al-Ghazālī is one of the most phenomenal scholars and ṣūfi…

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Lāmiʿ al-Darārī ʿalā Jāmiʿ al-Bukhārī

Lāmiʿ al-Darārī ʿalā Jāmiʿ al-Bukhārī

(Arabic commentary notes on Ṣaḥῑḥ al-Bukhāri from the lectures of Imām Rashῑd Aḥmad Gangohi, by his student, Mawlānā Muḥammad Yaḥya Kāndhlawi. Later edited, annotated and published by the latter’s son, Shaykh al-Ḥadῑth Mawlānā Muḥammad Zakariyya Kāndhlawi) 

لامع الدراري على جامع البخاري

وهي إفادات الإمام رشيد أحمد الجنجوهي (ت 1323) ، جمعها وقيدها الشيخ محمد يحيى الكاندهلوي (1334)…

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Book Review: Khatm-e-Nubuwwat of Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ

Book Review: Khatm-e-Nubuwwat of Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ

Book Review: Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (Urdu)

Author: Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ (may Allah shower him with His mercy) (d. 1396/1976)

Reviewer: Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islam

Authored by one of the greatest masters of the Islamic sciences of the last century, and a magnificent spiritual master, Imam Mufti Muhammad Shafi’ (father of our masters, ‘Allamah Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani and Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Rafi’…

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Review: Muwatta’ al-Imam Malik: Riwayat al-Shafi’i ‘an Malik

Book Review: ‘Muwatta’  al-Imam Malik: Riwayat al-Shafi’i ‘an Malik’, al-Banjari, Muhammad Lutfi, Karachi: Majlis al-Da’wah wa al-Tahqiq al-Islami, 357 pages By Maulana Zeeshan Chaudri The Muwatta’ of Imam Malik (d.179) requires no introduction as 100s of books have been written over the centuries studying various aspects of the goldmine. This collection of Malik demonstrates the juristic acumen…

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Book Review: Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith

Book Review: Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith

Review by: Waqar Akbar Cheema Title: Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith  Author: Atabek Shukurov An-Nasafi / Sulaiman Ahmed (translator)   Publisher: Avicenna Academy, UK   Release Date: May 1, 2015   Format: Hardback   Pages: ix + 311   The book is allegedly an attempt at revival of hanafi methdology in hadith. However, in reality far from representing the hanafi school’s actual approach it is…

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ʿAllāmah al-Kawtharī’s List of Ḥanafī Hadith Masters

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The Art of Taking Notes

The Art of Taking Notes

By Shaykh Shahin-ur Rahman As the new Islāmic academic year[1] approaches, students of knowledge are moving into the higher years at every Islāmic institute of learning (dār al-ʿulūm). Many are prone to becoming overwhelmed by the volume of their studies and speed of their teachers’ lectures. At this point, they fall prey to making a ‘rookie mistake’ they later realise and regret. That is, the…

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Al-Biḍāʿat al-Muzjāt li man Yuṭāliʿu al-Mirqāt by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Nuʿmānī

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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What is a Madrasa? By Professor Ebrahim Moosa: Book Review

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A Suggested Curriculum of Study for the Hanafi Student of Hadith