Articles
Principles of the Salafī Methodology
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 coin-probability illustration from his sharḥ on Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, demonstrating the mathematical impossibility of a purposeless, chance-formed universe.
Islamic History
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
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
The dispute and reconciliation of Shaykhs Aḥmad Shākir and Ḥāmid al-Fiqī illustrate Salafī brotherhood, forgiveness and restraint in scholarly disagreement.
Christianity
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
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
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
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
Al-Kinānī’s account of confronting Bishr al-Marīsī over the created Qurʾān doctrine during the Abbasid Miḥnah, from al-Ḥaydah wa-l-Iʿtidhār.
Islamic History
Discover the story of al-Ikhshīd, Muḥammad ibn Ṭughj, whose life changed from poverty in Baghdad to rule over Egypt and Syria.
Marriage
Islamic narrations on choosing a suitable husband, highlighting religion, character, attraction and compatibility in marriage through reports from the Salaf.
