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“Ibn ʿAbbās said: “From the signs of the bearing of the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ is that every beast of the Quraysh spoke that year and said: “By the Lord of the Kaʿbah, Muḥammad ﷺ is conceived! He is the security of the worldly realm and the lamp of its inhabitants.” There was…
…no soothsayer left within the Quraysh nor a clan amongst the clans of the Arabs except that they are veiled from their companion [from the Jinn] and the knowledge of soothsaying was taken away from them. There was no throne from the thrones of the kings of the world except…
…that they got toppled, and the king was rendered mute and did not speak on that day. The beasts of the west ran to the beasts of the east with glad tidings. The inhabitants of the oceans gave glad tidings to each other as well saying: “Rejoice! It is time for Abū al Qāsim ﷺ…
“It is narrated from Muḥammad ibn al Munkadir, from Jābir ibn ʿAbdiLlāh, from the Prophet ﷺ who said: «Whoever send a hundred prayers upon me in the day, Allāh will fulfill for him a hundred needs: seventy of them in the hereafter and thirty in the worldly realm.»
And from Saʿīd ibn ʿUmayr al Anṣārī, who was a Badrī—i.e. one of the fighters on the day of Badr—said: The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ said: «Whoever from my nation send one prayer upon me, sincerely from his heart, Allāh sends ten prayers upon him, raises ten degrees for him, and…
…erases ten misdeeds from him.»
He (Abū al Layth) said: I heard my father relate that when Sufyān al Thawrī was circumambulating, he saw a man who did not take a step except that he was sending prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ. He said: “I asked him: “O you! Indeed you have…
He (Abū al Layth) said: I heard my father relate that when Sufyān al Thawrī was circumambulating, he saw a man who did not take a step except that he was sending prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ. He said: “I asked him: “O you! Indeed you have…
“It is narrated by al Bayhaqī and Ibn ʿAsākir from Abū al Ḥakam al Tanūkhī who said that a newborn baby, when he is born amongst the Quraysh, he would be handed over to the womenfolk of Quraysh until dawn and they would invert an earthenware pot over him. Thus, when…
…the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ was born, ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib handed him over to the womenfolk and they inverted an earthenware pot over him. When they woke up in the morning, they found the pot had broken into two, and him with his two eyes opened, fixing his gaze to the sky. So,…
…they went to ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib and said to him: “We have never seen a newborn baby like him! We found the pot had broken into two, and him with his two eyes opened, fixing his gaze to the sky.” He replied: “Protect him, for I hope that goodness befalls him.”
When it was…
When it was…
“From Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq who said: When ʿAbduLlāh ibn ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib was ransomed from the sacrifice with one hundred camels and were slaughtered for him, ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib departed, taking the hand of his son, ʿAbduLlāh. He then passed with him a woman from…
…the clan of Asad and she was by the Kaʿbah. She then said to him (i.e. ʿAbduLlāh) when she gazed upon his face: “Where are you going, O ʿAbdaLlāh?” He replied: “With my father.” She said: “For you, [I shall give you the amount of] camels that were sacrificed [for you]; have…
…intercourse with me (waqaʿa ʿalayya, lit. fall on me) now.” He replied: “I am with my father. I am not able to lag behind him nor separate from him.”
ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib then left with him until they reached the daughter of Wahb ibn ʿAbd Manāf and she was, at that moment,…
ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib then left with him until they reached the daughter of Wahb ibn ʿAbd Manāf and she was, at that moment,…
“It is found that the standing (qiyām) upon the mentioning of his name ﷺ is from the savant of this nation and the exemplar of the Imāms in religiosity and piety, al Imām Taqīy al Dīn al Subkī and the ones who followed him upon in that the mashāyikh of Islām of his time. It is…
…related by some of them that a gathering was congregating by al Imām al Subkī—many of whom were the scholars of his time. So, a reciter recited the statement of al Ṣarṣarī in his praise ﷺ:
Few are the praises of the Chosen One written in gold—
upon a sheet—of penmanship…
Few are the praises of the Chosen One written in gold—
upon a sheet—of penmanship…
“Thus, adorn our gatherings with prayers upon him and purified greetings for indeed he ﷺ is present in every gathering that within it send prayers upon him. Therefore, increase in sending prayers and peace upon him. Allāh ﷻ has made incumbent the sending of prayers and peace…
…upon him in the Qurʾānic verses when He said—and He is the the most truthful of the sayers—in His precise Book, superior above all other statements: «Verily Allāh and His angels send prayers upon the Prophet», beginning with His self and repeated by the sacred angels. «O you…
…who believe, send prayers upon him and salute him with abundant greetings of peace.», commanding us with that in every assembly and place; and it is preferred by some eminent ones above the supererogatory prayers. O what felicity is for the one who occupies himself with it…
“All praises are due to Allāh who illuminated the existence with the emergence of the best of humankind, our Master Muḥammad—upon him prayers and peace—the moon of guidance, the star of the Lordly providence, the lamp of the mercy that is sent forth, the sun of the religion of…
…Islām. Whoever takes him as a patron, he will be entrusted with eternal preservation, protection, and care. His station rises above all stations and he is set above the prophets and emissaries, the beholders of lofty ranks. He was the starting point to the firsts and the seal…
…to the lasts. His nation is honoured above the preceding nations. It attains with it a degree of proximity, felicity, and regard. Its honouring is revealed in the precise Qurʾānic verses: «You are the best community ever raised for humanity—you encourage good, forbid evil,…
“Muḥammad: the elite amongst those of the purest of religion
and his light is the source of all creation in pre-eternity.
The best of all humankind whom from his hand is succoured with water;
Our souls are at ease towards him and never cease.
Say to the one who hides from blame:
and his light is the source of all creation in pre-eternity.
The best of all humankind whom from his hand is succoured with water;
Our souls are at ease towards him and never cease.
Say to the one who hides from blame:
«But for passion, you would not shed tears at an abandoned camp,
Or lie awake at night recalling the fragrant willow or the mountain»”
“Muḥammad: obeying him is obeying Allāh,
and the door to my Lord in this worldly realm is his law.
Or lie awake at night recalling the fragrant willow or the mountain»”
“Muḥammad: obeying him is obeying Allāh,
and the door to my Lord in this worldly realm is his law.
O buyer of amusement, do not be deceived by its seller,
follow the guidance of the one whom the pleasure of the Creator is his merchandise.
And the one whom when the Gathering has passed its hour:
«He is the Beloved whose intercession is hoped for,
follow the guidance of the one whom the pleasure of the Creator is his merchandise.
And the one whom when the Gathering has passed its hour:
«He is the Beloved whose intercession is hoped for,
The Miracles and Particularities that Occurred on the Night of the Beloved’s Birth ﷺ | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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① al Bayhaqī and Abū Nuʿaym narrated from Ḥassān b. Thābit raḍiya Allāhu ʿanh who said: “I was a young boy, seven or eight years old in age, able to comprehend what I saw and heard. A Jew in Yathrib called out in the early morning: ‘O Jews!’ All of us gathered at him and…
…I heard they say: ‘Woe unto you! What’s wrong with you?’ He replied: ‘The star of Aḥmad has appeared who was born in this night!’”
② al Bayhaqī, al Ṭabarānī, Abū Nuʿaym, and Ibn ʿAsākir from ʿUthmān b. Abī al ʿĀṣ who said: “My mother told me that she witnessed…
② al Bayhaqī, al Ṭabarānī, Abū Nuʿaym, and Ibn ʿAsākir from ʿUthmān b. Abī al ʿĀṣ who said: “My mother told me that she witnessed…
The Particularity of the Beloved’s ﷺ Ummah being Bestowed the Knowledge of the First and the Last, and the Opening of the Repositories of Knowledge upon Them | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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They (i.e. the Ummah of the Prophet ﷺ) were bestowed chains of transmission (isnād), genealogy (ansāb), grammatical analysis (iʿrāb), and the authoring of books. And their scholars are like the prophets of the children of Isrāʾīl.
Mentioned in a ḥadīth beforehand:
Mentioned in a ḥadīth beforehand:
“I (i.e. Mūsā ʿalayhi ‘s-salām) found in the tablets: ‘A ummah that are given the knowledge of the first and of the last…’* in the chapter on his mentioning ﷺ in the Tawrāt and the Injīl.
Abū Zurʿah narrated in his Tārīkh from Shafīyy b. Mātiʿ al Aṣbaḥī who said:…
Abū Zurʿah narrated in his Tārīkh from Shafīyy b. Mātiʿ al Aṣbaḥī who said:…
The Particularity of the Beloved’s ﷺ Ummah being the Best and the Last of the Ummahs | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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#TheSpringOfLight #Mawlid1443H
Allāh ﷻ said:
«You are the best community ever raised for humanity…» [3:110]
«And We have certainly made the Qurʾān easy to remember.» [54:17, 22, 32, 40]
«[It is Allāh] Who named you ‘the ones who submit’ (muslimīn)…» [22:78]
① It is narrated by Aḥmad, al Tirmidhī who…
«You are the best community ever raised for humanity…» [3:110]
«And We have certainly made the Qurʾān easy to remember.» [54:17, 22, 32, 40]
«[It is Allāh] Who named you ‘the ones who submit’ (muslimīn)…» [22:78]
① It is narrated by Aḥmad, al Tirmidhī who…
…graded it as good (ḥasan), Ibn Mājah, and al Ḥākim, from Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥaydah who heard the Prophet ﷺ said pertaining to the verse «You are the best community ever raised for humanity…» [3:110]: “Verily, you completed seventy ummahs, you are the best and the most…
The Meeting of the Beloved ﷺ with al Khiḍr ʿalayhi ‘s-salām and ʿĪsā ʿalayhi ‘s-salām | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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① Ibn ʿAdī and al Bayhaqī narrated from Kathīr b. ʿAbdiLlāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, from his father, from his grandfather who said: “The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ was in the mosque and heard a speech from behind him and the one who spoke said: ‘O Allāh, aid me with what will save me from…
…what You frightened me.’ The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ upon hearing that said: ‘Won’t you combine it with its counterpart?’ The man then said: ‘O Allāh, grant me the sustenance of the yearning of the pious for what You yearned for them.’ The Prophet ﷺ said to Anas:…
Signs that Occurred upon the Veiling of Our Beloved’s ﷺ Mother raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā wa ʿalayhā ‘s-salām | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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Abū Nuʿaym narrated from the path of al Zuhrī, from Umm Samāʿah bint Abī Ruhm, from her mother who said: “I saw Āminah, the mother of the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ, in her illness which she died from and Muḥammad ﷺ who was a growing boy—five years old—was at her head.
His mother gazed at his face and said:
‘May Allāh bless you, my boy.
O son, who from the fate of death,
was saved by the aid of the Benevolent Sovereign,
ransomed on the morning the arrows were drawn,
for a hundred tall camels.
If what I have seen in my dreams is true,
‘May Allāh bless you, my boy.
O son, who from the fate of death,
was saved by the aid of the Benevolent Sovereign,
ransomed on the morning the arrows were drawn,
for a hundred tall camels.
If what I have seen in my dreams is true,
A Benefit on the Verses of Poetry of Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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Ibn al Ṭarrāḥ said: “I saw in al Tarqīṣ of Abū ʿAbdiLlāh Muḥammad b. al Muʿallā al Azdī that from the poetry of Ḥalīmah [al Saʿdīyyah]* when she was singing words of amusement to the Prophet ﷺ:
O Lord, when You grant him, You preserved him,
and raised him to lofty heights,
O Lord, when You grant him, You preserved him,
and raised him to lofty heights,
and refuted the falsehood of the enemies by his right.
* al Muḥaddith, Shaykh Nabīl bin Hāshim al Ghamrī Bā ʿAlawī: al Qasṭallānī in al Mawāhib al Ladunnīyyah concurred with the author on the attribution of the verses to Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah. al Ḥāfidh [Ibn Ḥajar…
* al Muḥaddith, Shaykh Nabīl bin Hāshim al Ghamrī Bā ʿAlawī: al Qasṭallānī in al Mawāhib al Ladunnīyyah concurred with the author on the attribution of the verses to Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah. al Ḥāfidh [Ibn Ḥajar…
The Dream of ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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Abū Nuʿaym narrated from the path of Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdiLlāh b. Abī al Jahm, from his father, from his grandfather who said: “I heard Abū Ṭālib narrate from ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib: ‘While I was sleeping at the Ḥijr, I saw a dream that fascinated me and shook me greatly, so, I went…
…to the priestess of Quraysh and I said to her: ‘I saw in my dream a tree that is growing. Its crown reaches the heavens and its branches span the east and the west. And I have never seen such a light that emerges from it, [a light that is] seventy times greater that the light…
The Particularity of the Derivation of the Prophet’s ﷺ Blessed Name from the Name of Allāh ﷻ | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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① Ḥassān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāhu ʿanh said in praise of the Prophet ﷺ:
“Blazing white over him and signifying prophecy is a seal
from Allāh, made of light that glows and testifies.
And the God has joined the name of the Prophet to His
“Blazing white over him and signifying prophecy is a seal
from Allāh, made of light that glows and testifies.
And the God has joined the name of the Prophet to His
when the caller to the five prayers says: ‘I bear witness…’
And He derived for him [a name] out of His own Name to exalt him,
for the Owner of the ʿArsh is the All-Glorious (maḥmūd) and this is the Glorified One (muḥammad).”
And He derived for him [a name] out of His own Name to exalt him,
for the Owner of the ʿArsh is the All-Glorious (maḥmūd) and this is the Glorified One (muḥammad).”
“It is mentioned by some that the first to author [a work] on the Prophetic Birth was Abu al Khaṭṭāb Ibn Diḥyah al Kalbī who passed away in the year 633H and the mawlid was named: “al Tanwīr min Mawlid al Sirāj al Munīr”. He presented it to the King of Irbil, al Muẓaffar,…
…who celebrated the night of his Mawlid ﷺ and day, a celebration that was never heard in such a scale. Thus, he was granted a tremendous reward.
It is not so, rather, there are many who wrote a mawlid before Abu al Khaṭṭāb Ibn Diḥyah. The first that I know of who wrote…
It is not so, rather, there are many who wrote a mawlid before Abu al Khaṭṭāb Ibn Diḥyah. The first that I know of who wrote…
…on it was Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al Wāqidī, the author of al Maghāzī and al Futūḥ, who passed away in the year 206H, or it is said 209H. And he had two books in this topic: “al Mawlid al Nabawī” and “Intiqāl al Nūr al Nabawī”, both of which are quoted by al Suhaylī in…
The Particularity of the Prophet ﷺ being the First of the Prophets in Creation, the Precedence of His Prophethood, and the Taking of the Covenant upon Him ﷺ | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā
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① Ibn Abī Ḥātim in his tafsīr and Abū Nuʿaym in al Dalāʾil [al Nubuwwah], from the path of Qatādah, from al Ḥasan [al Baṣrī], from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ on His verse ﷻ «And [remember] when We took a covenant from the prophets…» [33:7], he ﷺ said: “I was…
…the first of the prophets in the creation and the last of them to be sent.” He begins with them before them.
② Abū Sahl al Qaṭṭān in a portion of his works, from Sahl b. Ṣāliḥ al Hamadānī who said: “I asked Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad [al Bāqir] b. ʿAlī: ‘How did Muḥammad ﷺ…
② Abū Sahl al Qaṭṭān in a portion of his works, from Sahl b. Ṣāliḥ al Hamadānī who said: “I asked Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad [al Bāqir] b. ʿAlī: ‘How did Muḥammad ﷺ…
