Ḥadīth Study
When Allah ﷻ Laughs, Part 2: Night Prayer and Steadfastness
Authentic narrations on Allah’s laughter, love and rejoicing over His servants, with the virtues of night prayer, sincerity and steadfastness in battle.
Articles
Articles
Death, Grave and Hereafter
When Allah ﷻ Laughs, Part 1: A Killer and His Victim in Paradise
The authentic ḥadīth of a slain believer and his repentant killer who both enter Paradise, with Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn’s explanation of Allah’s attribute of laughter.
Principles of the Salafī Methodology
Avoiding Fitnah and Conflict: Shaykh Muqbil al-Wādiʿī’s Counsels
Shaykh Muqbil al-Wādiʿī’s advice on avoiding fitnah, preserving security, teaching with gentleness and protecting the Salafī daʿwah from provocation and conflict.
Scholars
Al-Hilālī’s Bag of Ten Coins: A Mathematical Case Against Blind Chance
Al-Hilālī's coin-probability illustration from his sharḥ on Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, demonstrating the mathematical impossibility of a purposeless, chance-formed universe.
Islamic History
ʿAbd Allah al-Qaṣīmī: From Defending Islam to Apostasy
A biography of ʿAbd Allah al-Qaṣīmī, his early defence of Islam and tawḥīd, later apostasy, scholarly refutations and accounts of his final years.
Principles of the Salafī Methodology
Unity and Brotherhood Among Salafīs: Shaykh Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī’s Advice
Shaykh Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī’s advice on Salafī unity, Islamic brotherhood, seeking knowledge and wise daʿwah, with warnings against division, harshness and attacks on scholars.
Scholars
A Lesson in Brotherhood: The Dispute and Reconciliation of Shaykhs Aḥmad Shākir and Ḥāmid al-Fiqī
The dispute and reconciliation of Shaykhs Aḥmad Shākir and Ḥāmid al-Fiqī illustrate Salafī brotherhood, forgiveness and restraint in scholarly disagreement.
Christianity
Raised, Not Crucified: The Night Allah Protected ʿĪsā ibn Maryam
Discover the Qurʾānic account of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam being raised rather than crucified, with reports preserved in Ibn Kathīr’s al-Bidāyah wa-n-Nihāyah.
Character and Manners
Bearing with the Bad Manners of Your Teacher: Patience, Propriety, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Classical advice on patience with teachers, Islamic etiquette in seeking knowledge, respect for scholars and avoiding arrogance, with statements from the early scholars.
Character and Manners
When Envy Meets Scholarship: al-Bukhārī, adh-Dhuhlī and the Trial of Neyshabur
The trial of al-Bukhārī in Neyshabur, his dispute with adh-Dhuhlī over reciting the Qurʾān, and Imām Muslim’s stand, as preserved in classical biographies.
Islamic History
“They Serve Heaven Alone”: The Earliest Chinese Eyewitness Account of Muslims
Read Du Huan’s eighth-century eyewitness account of Muslims in the Abbasid Caliphate, preserved in the Tongdian and translated by Wan Lei.
Islamic History
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kinānī’s Stand Against Bishr al-Marīsī and the Miḥnah
Al-Kinānī’s account of confronting Bishr al-Marīsī over the created Qurʾān doctrine during the Abbasid Miḥnah, from al-Ḥaydah wa-l-Iʿtidhār.
