The Month of Shaʿbān: the Month of Sending Prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ
“From the excellences of the month of Shaʿbān: it is the month when the verse of sending prayers and peace upon the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ is sent down, which is His Words: “Indeed, God and His angels send prayers upon the Prophet. O you who believe! Send prayers upon...
...[the Prophet,] and salute him with a worthy salutation of peace!” [33:56]
It is mentioned by Ibn Abī ‘ṣ-Ṣayf al Yamanī who said: Verily, the month of Shaʿbān is the month of sending prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ as its verse was sent down in it [al Fishnī, Tuḥfat al Ikhwān]
Imām Shihāb al Dīn al Qasṭallānī in al Mawāhib [al Ladunnīyyah] quoted an opinion from amongst the scholars that the month of Shaʿbān is the month of sending prayers upon him ﷺ because the verse of sending prayers was sent down in it.
The Ḥāfidh, Ibn Ḥajar [al ʿAsqalānī], may Allāh have mercy upon him, mentioned, from Abī Dharr al Harawī, that the command of prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ—with His Words: O you who believe! Send prayers upon [the Prophet,] and salute him with a worthy salutation of peace!—...
...[was revealed] in the second year after Hijrah. And it is said that [it is revealed] in the night of the Ascent (al Isrāʾ).”
— the Muḥaddith of Ḥaramayn, al Sayyid Muḥammad ibn ʿAlawī al Mālikī al Idrīsī al Ḥasanī raḍiya Allāhu ʿanh, Mādhā fī Shaʿbān
“From the remembrance of the month [of Shaʿbān] is the verse that is revealed upon the Emissary which contains generosity.
With His Word addressing those who believe, “send prayers upon him...”, you gain what is intended.”
— Sayyidī ‘l-Ḥabīb Abū Bakr al ʿAdnī ibn ʿAlī al Mashhūr ḥafidhahuLlāh, al Nafaḥāt al Raḥmānīyyah fī ‘l-Khaṣāʾiṣ al Shaʿbānīyyah
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the individuals considered as qubūriyyūn mushrik by Khālid ʿAlī al Marḍī al Ghāmidī, to name a few:
[8th Century Hijrah]
• Muḥammad b. al Ḥājj al ʿAbdarī al Fāsī
• Taqīy al Dīn al Subkī
• Tāj al Dīn al Subkī
• Ibn Baṭūṭah
[9th Century]
• ʿAbd al Karīm al Jīlī
• the grammarian, ʿAbd a Qāhir al Jurjānī
• Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al Jazūlī
• the theologian, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al Sanūsī
• the muḥtasib, Aḥmad Zarrūq al Fāsī
• ʿAbd al Raḥmān al Jāmī
[10th Century]
• Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī
• the shāriḥ of al Bukhārī, al Qasṭallānī
• the muḥaqqiq, Ibn Ḥajar al Haythamī (supposed to be al Haytamī)
• the Ṣūfī, ʿAbd al Wahhāb al Shaʿrānī
[11th Century]
• ʿAbd al Raʾūf al Munāwī
• Mujaddid Alf Thānī, Aḥmad Sirhindī
• Ibn ʿĀshir al Mālikī
• ʿAbd al Ḥaqq al Dihlawī
to say that the books of faḍāʾil are filled with fabrication without actually going through them is dishonesty because Mawlānā Zakariyyā al Kandahlawī added takhrīj for every single ḥadīth that he placed in those books.
there’s no denying that yes, some of the ḥadīths in them might be considered by a ḥadīth scholar as mawḍūʿ, but it is possible that it is considered as ḍaʿīf or even ḥasan by another due to the differences in their methodology.
ḥadīths can have varying gradings, and that’s true for every one of them; even those in Ṣaḥīḥ al Bukhārī where Imām al Dāraquṭnī did criticise some of them (though his arguments are considered weak).
and we need to put in mind as well that ḍaʿīf ≠ mawḍūʿ.
simply because they’re using the musical “maqams” of the Celts, automatically they’re following the Christians? even outside of the Christian realm, poetry and songs are recited this way in the Anglosphere.
Islām isn’t monotonous, people. ʿurf has a role as well in our religion.
“You said you were interested and keen to read the books of the gnostic Ṣūfī Shaykh, Muḥyi ‘d-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿArabī and that you found problematic his interpretation of the meaning of the quoted hadith about the length of the period of the Dajjāl,...
...and that you feared, because you found it problematic, that it may have been interpolated in the Shaykh's writings.
Know that there are many problematic matters in the Shaykh’s books, particularly in the ‘Fuṣūṣ’ and the ‘Futūḥāt’...
These may have been either added to the Shaykh’s writings, or produced by him when overpowered by a spiritual state and under the overwhelming power of a higher reality. It would then be the kind of divinely inspired statement (shath) which, in those who are overwhelmed,...