As always, numerous murtaddūn modernists feminists and liberal ignoramuses have a problem with me posting this simple thread on female slaves in pre-modern Islam.

Their minds, warped by what they watch and consume, cannot fathom the realities of history, yet they simp for

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the simplest of women who barely give them attention.

My intention was clear and straightforward: this catalog of female slaves illustrates the structured worldview and social hierarchy applied to slave-girls in classical Islamic society.

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Female Slaves and Their Traits in Early Islamic Writings

[1] Color: The Blacks

Race: The Indian women

Physical characteristics: Good stature, brownness of colors, abundant share of beauty, yellowness and clearness of complexion, good fragrance softness and delicateness

1/25 old age comes quickly to them.

Moral characteristics: Loyalty to covenant and affection, much mingling [with people], depth [of character], sharpness, pride of soul, they do not endure humiliation.

Roles: Bearing children

Race: The Sindhi women

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What Happens to People Like Charles Kirk After They Die?

Al-Ghazalī (d. 505) Said:

"When an disbeliever advances towards the next world and cuts off connections with an world, there descend to him angels severe, harsh, with them garments of fire and coats of pitch.

1/10 They surround him.
When his soul comes out, every angel between the heaven and the earth curses him, and every angel in the heaven, and the gates of the heaven are closed

there is no gate but that it hates that his soul should enter through it.

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Wife Serving Her Husband: Is It Obligatory or Not?

[🧵] Indeed, in this period the statement has become widespread, and much discussion has arisen among the people regarding the issue of the service of the woman to her husband between those who say it is obligatory, and those who say it is not obligatory.

Scholars Who Transitioned Between Madhhabs

[1]– Ḥanafī-Shāfiʿī:

Imām Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī
[Shāfiʿī → Ḥanafī]

Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Naysābūrī
[Shāfiʿī → Ḥanafī]

Abū Jaʿfar al-Tirmidhī
[Ḥanafī → Shāfiʿī]

1/8 Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī
[Ḥanafī → Shāfiʿī]

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad al-Shīmanī
[Ḥanafī → Shāfiʿī]

[2]– Mālikī-Ḥanafī:

Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar al-Qāhirī (Ibn al-Maghribī)
[Mālikī → Ḥanafī]

Asad Ibn al-Furāt
[Ḥanafī → Mālikī]

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Did the Fatimids Invent the Mawlid? Refuting the Claim

[🧵] Refuting some of the suspicions regarding the noble Mawlid al-Nabawī

ʿAbd al-Munʿim Sulṭān mentioned in his book *al-Ḥayāh al-Ijtimāʿiyyah fī al-ʿAṣr al-Fāṭimī* that the Fatimids were the first to celebrate the Mawlid al-Nabawī. Likewise, the Tunisian historian

Evidences of Mawlid in the Sunnah

[🧵] As for the evidences from the Sunnah, they are many and mutually supporting, summarized as follows:

[First Evidence]:
Muslim transmitted in his Ṣaḥīḥ [2/819] from Abu Qatādah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about fasting on Monday, so he said:
"That is the day I was

Was the Marriages of Prophet ﷺ for the Purpose of Desire?

Al-Ṣabunī (d. 1442) said:

"The Chosen One ﷺ knew the path of desire and pleasure, had he wished that being by marrying youthful virgins but he did not marry any virgin except Aisha, and all of his wives were

1/5 Previously married women and widows, because his marriage was for noble aims and lofty wisdoms, and was not driven by pleasure and desire, as the lying impostors from among the enemies of Islam say.

he ﷺ did not marry multiple wives except after the age of maturity and

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When Every Layman Becomes a Mufti: The Pseudo-Salafi Epidemic

[1]: Among the most dangerous reprehensible innovations caused by the spread of the weed-like, upstart pseudo-Salafi way of thinking among the common people is that now, if you speak to any individual among

1/11 the people in any issue, you see him demanding you for the dalīl for what you say even though both the muftī and the one seeking the fatwa are muqallid, and taqlīd as is established in the īlm al-usul is:

قبول قول الغير بلا حجة

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List of Scholars and Works Refuting Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728)

[🧵] [1]: Al-Qadī, al-Mufassīr Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Jamāʿah al-Shafiʿī (d. 733)

[2]: Al-Qadī Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥarīrī al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī

[3]: Al-Qadī Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr al-Mālikī.

[4]: Al-Qadī Aḥmad Ibn ʿUmar al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.

What a French Official Said About Islam in 1952:

One of the officials in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a 1952 speech:

"Communism does not seem to me to be a danger to Europe; it is a subsequent link in a chain of preceding links. And if there is a danger,

1/12 it is only a political-military danger, but it is not a civilizational danger by which the foundations of our intellectual and human existence are exposed to disappearance and extinction.

The real danger that threatens us with a direct and violent threat is the

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Al-Ghazali (d. 505) in His *Iḥyāʾ 'Ulūm al-Dīn* Gives Remedy to Two Types of People and Warns Against the Misuse of Hope:

"Know that this remedy is needed by one of two types of men:

either a man overcome by despair, so he abandons worship,

or a man overwhelmed by fear,

1/8 So he excessively persists in worship until he harms himself and his family.

These two men have deviated from balance towards the extremes of excess and negligence, and they need a treatment to bring them back to moderation.

As for the deceived sinner who has false hopes

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Are the Face and Hands Considered 'Awrah?

Al-Ṣabunī (d. 1442) said:

"Evidence from the Mālikiyyah and Ahnaf:

The Mālikiyyah and Ahnaf have cited the following evidence to argue that the face and hands are not considered `awrah:

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The verse from the Qur'an:

وَلاَ يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلاَّ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا

'And not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof'

–An-Nur, 31

The verse excludes what appears of the woman, meaning what is necessary to uncover

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The Illusion Some Young Muslim Men Have and the Importance of Modest and Pious Girls:

Nūr al-Dīn 'Itr (d. 1442) said:

"the Shāytan has adorned for some young people the illusion that they should equate the pious and modest girl, who possesses shyness and decorum, with

1/ others who have neglected their religious duties, having removed the Hijab of Modesty and Displayed themselves,

or who have fallen short in their duties towards their Dīn and their Rabb تعالت عظمته, as long as this latter—according to their claim or her claim—

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The Wisdom behind Prophet ﷺ Shepherding of Sheep:

Muhammad Sa'īd Ramadan al-Boutī (d. 1434) said:

"As for his turning to shepherding sheep for the purpose of earning sustenance and livelihood, it contains three important indications:

The first:

1/10 the refined taste and precise sensitivity with which Allāh ﷻ adorned His Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

His uncle surrounded him with complete care, and he was to him in affection and compassion like a caring father.

However, as soon as he felt within himself the ability to earn,

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The Generosity of Imam Abū Hanifah:

Imam al-Halabī, Ahmad al-'Askarī, and al-Saymarī¹ mentioned from Mas'īr, who said:

"When Abū Hanifa رحمه الله تعالى bought something for his family or when the first fruits arrived to him, he would buy for the Shuyūkh of the Muhaddithīn

1/19 better than what he bought for his family and for himself,

and he would spend on them more than he spent on his family. He was lenient in selling and dealing"

al-'Askarī mentioned with his chain from Sharīk Ibn Abdullah:

"That Abū Hanifa رحمه الله تعالى, was much in

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The Etiquette that the Younger Generation Should Learn:

Abd al-Fattāh Abū Ghuddah (d. 1417) said:

"from the etiquette of sitting together is that when you speak to your guest or anyone among people, let your voice be gentle and low, and let your raising of the voice be

1/11 according to the necessity.

For raising the voice beyond what is needed breaches the etiquette of the speaker and indicates a lack of respect for the one being spoken to.

This etiquette should be observed with friends, peers,

those you know and those you do not, with

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What Hadith Scholars Say About Imam Abū Hanifa

[🧵] Imam al-Hafīz Abū Abdullah al-Dhahabī (d. 748 AH / 1348 CE) authored a book on the Tabaqāt of the Huffāz, and he included in it a limited biography of the Imam and his two companions{¹},

which indicates that Imam al-Dhahabī considered Imam Abū Hanifah رحمه الله تعالى, among

Why Did Bukharī, Muslīm, and the Six Major Collectors Not Narrate from Abū Hanifah?

[🧵] Wahbī Sulayman Ghawjī (d. 1434 AH / 2013 CE) said:

"Some of them said:

'Indeed, Imam Abū Hanifah رحمه الله تعالى has not had any of his narrations included by al-Bukharī, Muslīm, and the rest of the Six [Book], and this is evidence of their disregard for him or that he

The Concept of Salaf and Khalaf According to Ahlus Sunnah Wāl-Jāmā'a and the Wahhabīyya:

Sa'īd Foudah (b. 1387) said:

"(1): The Salaf and Khalaf According to Our Scholars

It is known to you, esteemed gentlemen and honorable scholars, that there is, in our scholarly

1/ history, the idea of Salaf and Khalaf.

The concept of Salaf and Khalaf was a temporal concept only, and not a concept distinguishing the māhiyya of those who preceded from those who followed, such that whoever was not described as being from the Salaf would be disapproved

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Why Didn't Allāh ﷻ Allow Polyandry (Having Multiple Husbands) for Women?

Muhammad Sa'īd Ramadan al-Boutī (d. 1434) said:

"Among people today, when faced with these clear logical arguments that we have presented, some turn away or preoccupy themselves with saying:

1/17 Well, since the matter returns to the necessities that may call for polygamy, why did the legislator not permit, considering the necessities themselves, also the allowance of polyandry (having multiple husbands)?

Isn't a woman like a man in the possibility of facing

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