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Imam Abu Yusuf (R.A.) served as the Chief Justice (Qadi al-Qudat) of the entire Islamic world during the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Once, a legal dispute between Caliph Harun...
Hazrat Shaikh-ul-Hind had to make grand sacrifices for religion. It is written in his biography that when he passed away at the residence of Hakeem Muhammad Ajmal, the person perfo...
Hazrat Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi writes: The very first book that gave me a correct understanding of Islam, leading me to become a Muslim before the age of sixteen while living in...
The following books in the Arabic language can be utilized to benefit from the blessed Seerah (biography) of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ): 1: Al-Seerah al-Nabawiyyah: Consisting of four...
Imam Abu Yusuf (Rahmatullah Alaih) was the Chief Justice (Qadi al-Qudat) of the entire Islamic world during the era of Harun al-Rashid. Once, a lawsuit involving Caliph Harun al-Ra...
A Hadith narrated by Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) states that the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) once narrated an incident of a person from previous nations. There was a m...
A person wrote a forged letter in the name of Fazl bin Rabi', in which an order for one thousand dinars was issued for himself and signed. The man took the letter and reached the t...
His real name was Amr bin Mahbub, born in 160 AH, and became famous by the title of "Al-Jahiz". In Arabic, Al-Jahiz refers to someone whose eyeballs are protruding. In the beginnin...
Maulana Faisal Ahmad Sahib Nadvi Bhatkali writes: Our pious predecessors (Salaf) did not give any importance to purely bookish knowledge. That is, if a person did not have teach...
Sheikh Salman al-Ouda writes in his book "Zanzana": Once I complained to my Sheikh: "I read a book but I don't remember anything from it." Thereupon, he gave me a date and said: "...
Such was the level of passion for reading and the importance of time among the pious predecessors that they would continue reading books even while walking. Ibn al-Abnusi says that...
1. The great scholar of Hadith and master of dream interpretation, Imam Muhammad bin Sirin (RA), was weeping at the time of his death and saying, "I am weeping over the shortcoming...