🧵 The Qurān contains all knowledge

In the story of Sayyidnā Sulaymān ﷺ, when he said to his subjects, “Which of you will bring me her throne?” One of the jinn claimed to be able to bring it before Sayyidnā Sulaymān could stand up from his seat. Another one of them, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬, said: “I shall bring it to you before your glance returns to you.” (Q 27:40)

Notice how Allāh ﷻ specifically relates his ability with his knowledge of the Scripture?!

Cat Fiqh series: part 2

🧵 Issues Related to Liability (ضمان) First Issue:
If someone owns a cat that damages food or birds of others, the situation is assessed:

If such behavior is known from the cat, the owner must restrain it to prevent harm to others.

Regarding liability, there are two views (wajhān)

🧵 How to recognize Laylat al-Qadr بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

The manṣūṣ of al-Shāfiʿī رضي الله عنه is that Laylat al-Qadr is one specific night that does not change.

In al-Imlāʾ, he said it is the 21st.

Not every differing text from al-Shāfiʿī means a differing qawl in the madhhab.

One of the best examples is determining the distance in which it is permissible to shorten prayer (masāfat al-qaṣr) in which al-Shāfiʿī has seven different texts: (1) forty eight amyāl
(2) forty six amyāl
(3) more than forty amyāl
(4) forty amyāl
(5) the distance of two days
(6) the distance of two nights
(7) the distance of a day and a night

Shaykh al-Shāfiʿiyyah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shahāwī—حفظه الله—demonstrates the correct pronunciation of the letter ḍād (ض), and states that the neo-ḍād is a major error (laḥn jalī). Continued

🧵 Among the Shāfiʿī scholars who explicitly condemned the neo-ḍād is Ibn al-Najjār (d. 870)—scholar of Qurānic sciences and student of Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833)—in a short treatise of his explaining the correct pronunciation of the letter. He says: some of them pronounce it similar to a dāl or ṭāʾ, and they are the majority of Egyptians, and they claim that this is the correct pronunciation!

(His teacher Ibn al-Jazarī also mentioned the same about Egyptians and added, “They are unable to pronounce otherwise”)

The term “al-Qurān” can be used to mean three different things.

1. Allāh’s attribute of Speech that He revealed

He says: “And We reveal from the Qurān what is a cure and mercy for the believers...” (Q 17:82) 2. The muṣḥaf

The Prophet—peace be upon him—said: “Do not travel with the Qurān to the enemy’s land.”

What is meant here is the muṣḥaf, for otherwise, anyone who memorises the Qurān would be prohibited from travel.

🧵 Evidences that Sayyidnā Ibn Masʿūd did NOT deny that the Fātiḥah and the Muʿawwidhatayn are from the Qurān 1. al-Bāqillānī mentions a narration from ʿAlqamah, a famous student of Ibn Masʿūd, that his Muṣḥaf began with the Sūrah of “maliki yawmi d-dīni” (i.e. Sūrat al-Fātiḥah)

It is narrated that Abū Hanīfah was asked about a man who said:

1. I don’t hope for Jannah
2. I don’t fear Hellfire
3. I eat Maytah (dead animals) and Dam (blood)
4. I believe in the Jews and Christians
5. I hate the truth
6. I flee from the mercy of Allāh 7. I drink wine
8. I testify of things I haven’t seen
9. I love Fitnah
10. I perform Salāh without Wudū’
11. I leave Ghusl after Janābah
12. I kill people

Abū Hanīfah رحمه الله asked his companions: What do you say?

They replied: He is a Kāfir!

Who are the best women?

Hear it from a man who has travelled across the world, and seen women from all cultures...

Ibn Baṭūṭah (d. 779), the famous traveller, writes about Maldivian women: ❝In the entire world, I haven’t seen women with better companionship than them. Their women don’t become tired of serving their husbands. Rather, she brings him food, raises it before him [to feed him], washes his hands [after eating], brings him water for Wuḍūʾ [ablution], and she even massages his feet when he sleeps.

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🧵 Clarifications

https://twitter.com/suhaaaaaib/status/1761512538704080919

The night of 15th Sha‘bān not having as much virtue as Laylat al-Qadr is clear, that does not mean 15th Sha‘bān has no virtue.

https://twitter.com/Suhaaaaaib/status/1761518448323219585

🧵 ~ Shaykh al-Islām Sulaym al-Rāzī (d. 447) He is Shaykh al-Islām Abū al-Fatḥ Sulaym b. Ayyūb al-Rāzī al-Shāfi'ī, who was from the major students of Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī al-Shāfi'ī, may Allāh be pleased with them. From his students were: al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Naṣr al-Maqdisī, and others.

al-Imām al-Shāfi'ī: it is recommended to do excessive du'ā after obligatory prayers

B-b-but bid'ah ackeeeee......... al-Imām al-Shāfi'ī: one may kiss or wipe any part of the ka'bah, though what is best in the rukn al-yamānī is to touch it instead of kissing, but if someone kisses it, that's still good

B-b-but bid'ah ackeeeee.........

Uncreated. The proof was invented by al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī, later codofied by al-Imām al-Ashʿarī.

al-Shāfiʿī said: “Allāh only created the creation with ‘Kun’, so if that is Makhlūq, then it necessitates a Makhlūq being created from a Makhlūq!”

Authentic.
Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ 9/111

https://twitter.com/cappaml/status/1721681193739972765

The argument can be summarized as:
P1- Allāh only creates with ‘Kun’
P2- The creation had a beginning (Tasalsul is impossible)
C- ‘Kun’ (Allāh's speech) is uncreated

🧵~ Defending Imām al-Aʾimmah Muḥyī al-Sunnah al-Baghawī al-Shāfiʿī al-Ashʿarī from the Tajsīm of the Salafiyyah

تبيين كذب الغوي
فيما نسب إلى محيي السنة البغوي

https://twitter.com/mahmud_murrah/status/1636396987791843330

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الحمد لله حمدًا كثيرًا طيبًا مباركًا فيه.
وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه ومحبيه.

مدد يا رسول الله في الرد على عدو سنتك!

❝From the extraordinary actions of certain animals and creatures include seeking help and intercession from the Prophet (ﷺ) and seeking refuge in him.❞

– al-Imām Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʿī (قدس الله سره) 𝟏- Ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū Nuʿaym, and al-Bayhaqī narrated that ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Jaʿfar (رضي الله عنهما) said: "The Messenger (ﷺ) entered the courtyard of an Anṣārī and found a camel there. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw it, he showed compassion and his eyes welled up with tears.

🧵 ~ The virtue of Sayyidnā Muḥammad ﷺ in the Qurʾān and Aḥādīth compared to the rest of the Prophets. (1) Mūsā ﷺ said: “O my Lord, expand for me my chest.” As for Sayyidnā Muḥammad ﷺ, without him asking for it, Allāh ﷻ says: “Have We not expanded for you your chest?”

{🧵} al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī رضي الله عنه and ʿIlm al-Kalām ﷽

Wahhābīs and pseudo-Shāfiʿīs love to misquote our Imām on this, so I shall mention here the narrations which prove that he did not prohibit Kalām as a whole, but rather allowed Sunnī Kalām, and explain narrations that seem to indicate otherwise.

📍100+ great scholars of Islām on Tawassul, Istishfāʿ and Istighāthah through the Ḥabīb ﷺ ﷽
All praise belongs to Allāh ﷻ, who blessed us with the noble opportunity of seeking help and intercession through the best of creation, Sayyidnā Muḥammad ﷺ.
May the peace, blessings and mercy of Allāh ﷻ be upon him for as long as the world remains.

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Salafīs love to use the verse “And He is the Subjugator above His slaves” as a proof that Allāh (ﷻ) is above by place and direction. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “The scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets”, so let us go back to the Mufassirīn and see what they say. 1) Imām al-Mufassirīn Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī [d. 310 h] —
He explicitly says it means that He is above them by His power and subjugation.

📍A beautiful example of onomatopoeia in the Qurānic readings- the Qurān's ability to express meaning via the sound of its text: ىصعڡ لهم العداٮ
“The punishment for them will be multiplied”
al-Makkī, al-Shāmī, Abū Jaʿfar, Yaʿqūb: “yuḍaʿʿafu”
The rest: “yuḍāʿafu” Both means “to multiply”, however “yuḍāʿafu” with the elongated alif indicates to the increase of the number of punishments and the time period in which they are punished, while “yuḍaʿʿafu” indicates to the increase in the severity of the punishment,