tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39629553407233706702024-03-11T04:49:39.453-07:00Reviving Al-IslaamReviving Al-Islaam by the Qur'aan and Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم).Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-61408651531844580732013-01-23T13:41:00.000-08:002013-01-23T13:45:56.536-08:00Qualities of a Mu'min<div class="MsoNormal">
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(believer). In this </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">adīth Imām al-</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">Ṣ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ādiq </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span dir="LTR"></span> says that in order to be considered a <i>mu’min</i>
(believer), one much willingly follow <b><u>ALL</u></b> the commandments given
by the Prophet </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span dir="LTR"></span> and the A’immah </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Among the
scholars who have authenticated this </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">adīth are `Ā</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">if al-Mu</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ḥsinī<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[1]</span>, Hādī
al-Najafī</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[2]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">,
Wahīd al-Khurāsānī</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[3]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">,
and al-Majlisī</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[4]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">`Alī b. Ibrāhīm</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">[5]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from his father</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">[6]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Ibn Maḥbūb</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">[7]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Ibn Ri’āb</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">[8]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">قَالَ إِنَّا لَا
نَعُدُّ الرَّجُلَ مُؤْمِناً حَتَّى يَكُونَ لِجَمِيعِ أَمْرِنَا مُتَّبِعاً
مُرِيداً أَلَا وَ إِنَّ مِنِ اتِّبَاعِ أَمْرِنَا وَ إِرَادَتِهِ الْوَرَعَ
فَتَزَيَّنُوا بِهِ يَرْحَمْكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ كَبِّدُوا أَعْدَاءَنَا بِهِ
يَنْعَشْكُمُ اللَّهُ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;">Said: “Verily, we do not consider a
man a <i>mu’min</i> until he follows
ALL of our commands, willingly, [know that] a part of following out commands
and wishing to fulfill it is through <i>al-Wara`a
</i>(piety), then adorn yourselves
with it (i.e. piety), may Allāh have mercy on you, and keep busy (fighting) our
enemies with it (i.e. piety), may Allāh reinvigorate you”<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[9]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[1]</span> `Āṣif
al-Muḥsinī, <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 2, pg. 350 [He said the ḥadīth
is <b><i>Mu`tabar</i></b> <b>(Authentic)</b>]</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[2]</span> Hādī al-Najafī, <i>Alf Ḥadīth fī al-Mu’min</i>, ch. 146, pg. 261, ḥadīth # 786 & Hadi al-Najafi, <i>Mawsū`ah Aḥādīth Ahl
al-Bayt </i>, vol. 12, pg.
142, ḥadīth # 15115 [He said the ḥadīth has a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ al-Isnād (Authentic
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[3]</span> Wahīd al-Khurāsānī, <i>Muqaddimah Fī Usūl al-Dīn</i>, pg. 501 [He said this ḥadīth is <b><i>Ṣaḥīḥ </i></b><b>(Authentic)</b>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[4]</span> al-Majlisī,
<i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 8, pg. 64 [He said this ḥadīth is <b><i>Hasan</i> (Good)</b>]</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[5]</span> `Alī
b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to
al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī
(See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[6]</span> Ibrāhīm
b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl,
</i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12,
person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[7]</span> al-Ḥasan
b. Maḥbūb is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī,
<i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 122, person # 162 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg.
334, person # 4978) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 36,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[8]</span> `Alī
b. Ri’āb al-Kūfī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See:
al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 263, person # 375) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s
<i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 93, person # 13).</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[9]</span> al-Kulaynī,
<i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 2, pg. 78, ḥadīth # 13</div>
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Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-51643825442896253202013-01-04T15:28:00.001-08:002013-01-05T02:38:06.148-08:00How to Cure Depression<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";">Here is a </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">Ṣ</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">ḥīḥ</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Authentic)<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[1] </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";">ad</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ī</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";">th from Im</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ā</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";">m
al-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia;">Ṣ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ā</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";">diq </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Traditional Arabic";"><span dir="LTR"></span> on how to cure depression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(رحمه الله)، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أيوب بن نوح، عن محمد بن أبي عمير،
عن مثنى بن الوليد الحناط، عن أبي بصير،</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;">My father<span style="line-height: 13px;">[2]</span> <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(رحمة الله عليه)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>has narrated to us, he said: Sa`ad b. `Abd
Allāh</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">[3]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> has narrated to us from Ayūb
b. Nūḥ</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">[4]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> from Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">[5]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> from Muthanna b. al-Walīd al-Ḥannāṭ</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">[6]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">from Abī Baṣīr</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">[7]</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> said,</span></div>
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أَ مَا تَهْتَمُّ أَ مَا تَأْلَمُ قُلْتُ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَإِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ
مِنْكَ فَاذْكُرِ الْمَوْتَ وَ وَحْدَتَكَ فِي قَبْرِكَ وَ سَيَلَانَ عَيْنَيْكَ عَلَى
خَدَّيْكَ وَ تَقَطُّعَ أَوْصَالِكَ وَ أَكْلَ الدُّودِ مِنْ لَحْمِكَ وَ بَلَاءَكَ
وَ انْقِطَاعَكَ عَنِ الدُّنْيَا فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يَحُثُّكَ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ وَ يَرْدَعُكَ
عَنْ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الْحِرْصِ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">al-Ṣādiq <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to me, 'Do you become sad, worry, and
suffer?' I said: 'Yes, by Allāh!' He (AS) said: ‘When that (happens) to you,
then remember death, your loneliness in your grave, the flowing of your eyes on
your cheeks, the breaking of your joints, the worms eating from your flesh, your misfortunes, and your separation from the world. For that is what prompts you to do (good) actions,
and deters you from many of the desires of the world'<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">[8]</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[1]</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></span>Hādī
al-Najafī has said this ḥadīth has a <b><i>Ṣaḥīḥ Isnād</i></b> (authentic chain
of narrators). (See: Hādī al-Najafī, <i>Mawsū`ah Aḥādīth Ahl al-Bayt</i>, vol.
4, pg. 23)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">[2] </span></span>Abū
al-Ḥasan, `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh, father of al-Ṣadūq, is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy)
</b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 261, person
# 684), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 273, person # 393 &
al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 432, person # 6191), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī,
<i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 94, person # 20).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[3]</span> Sa`ad
b. `Abd Allāh b. al-`Asharī al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according to al-Najāshī
and al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 178, person # 467; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl,
</i>pg. 427, person # 6141; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist, </i>pg. 75, person # 306).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[4]</span> Ayūb
b. Nūḥ b. Darrāj is <b><i>thiqah</i> </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī,
<i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 102, person # 254), according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist,
</i>pg. 43, person # 59; ; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 352, person # 5214).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[5]</span> Muḥammad
b. Abī `Umayr is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī
(See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 326, person # 887), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī,
<i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 404, person # 618 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg.
265, person # 5413), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 140,
person #16).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[6]</span> Muthanna b. Walīd al-Ḥannāṭ is <b>thiqah (trustworthy)</b> or <b>praised</b>
per the statements of Ibn Faḍḍāl in al-Kashī’s <i>al-Rijāl </i>(See: al-Kashī, <i>Ikhtyār
Ma`arifah al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 338, saying # 623)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[7]</span> Abū
Baṣīr is Yaḥya b. al-Qāsim al-Asadī, he is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according to al-Najāshī
(See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 441, person # 1187)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">[8]</span> al-Ṣadūq,
<i>al-Amālī</i>, Majlis # 55, pg. 435, ḥadīth # 2</div>
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Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-54325806831162681232012-09-21T15:28:00.000-07:002012-09-26T10:35:57.260-07:00Merits of Ali<br />
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</b>ḥadīth from the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, where he described the many <i>faḍā’il </i>(merits) of Imām
`Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه
السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">قال حدثنا أبو جعفر
محمد بن علي بن الحسين قال حدثني أبي قال حدثني محمد بن يحيى العطار قال حدثنا
أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى عن علي بن الحكم عن هشام بن سالم عن سليمان بن خالد عن أبي
عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عن آبائه ع قال قال رسول الله ص لعلي ع</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">يا علي أنت مني و أنا
منك وليك وليي و وليي ولي الله و عدوك عدوي و عدوي عدو الله يا علي أنا حرب لمن
حاربك و سلم لمن سالمك يا علي لك كنز في الجنة و أنت ذو قرنيها يا علي أنت قسيم
الجنة و النار لا يدخل الجنة إلا من عرفك و عرفته و لا يدخل النار إلا من أنكرك و
أنكرته يا علي أنت و الأئمة من ولدك على الأعراف يوم القيامة تعرف المجرمين
بسيماهم و المؤمنين بعلاماتهم يا علي لولاك لم يعرف المؤمنون بعدي</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />He (al-Mufīd) said: Abū Ja`far, Muḥammad b. `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> has narrated to us. He said:
his father<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> has narrated to me. He said:
Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-`Aṭṭār<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> (the perfumer) has narrated
to me. He said: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> has narrated to us from `Alī
b. al-Ḥakam<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
from Hishām b. Sālim<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> from Sulaymān b. Khālid<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> from Abī `Abd Allāh, Ja`far
b. Muḥammad al-Sādiq <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه
السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> from his fathers <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;">“O `Alī, you are
from me, and I am from you. Your friend is my friend, and my friend is the
friend of Allāh. Your enemy is my enemy and my enemy is the enemy of Allāh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />O `Alī, I am at
war with whoever is at war with you, and I am at peace with whoever is at peace
with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />O `Alī, for you
there is a treasure in <i>al-Jannah</i>, and you have both its sides<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />O `Alī, you are
the divider of <i>al-Jannah </i>and the fire (i.e. Hell). No one enters <i>al-Jannah</i>,
except whoever recognizes you and you recognize him. No one enters the fire,
except whoever denies you and you deny him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />O `Alī, you and
the A’immah from your children are upon <i>al-`Arāf</i> on the Day of Judgment,
you will recognize the criminals by their marks, and the believers by their signs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />O `Alī, if it
was not for you, the believers would not be able to be recognized after me”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Merits%20of%20Ali.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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al-Shāhrūdī says this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Shāhrūdī, <i>Mustadarakāt
`ilm al-Rijāl</i>, vol. 4, pg. 129-130).</div>
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Abū Ja`far, Muḥammad b. `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh, commonly known as al-Ṣadūq,
is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī,
<i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 389, person # 1049), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>,
pg. 442, person # 710 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 439, person # 6275), and
al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 147, person # 44).</div>
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Abū al-Ḥasan, `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh, father of al-Ṣadūq, is <b><i>thiqah
</i></b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 261,
person # 684), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 273, person # 393
& al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 432, person # 6191), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī,
<i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 94, person # 20).</div>
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Abū Ja`far, Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-`Aṭṭār (the perfumer) al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah
</i></b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 353,
person # 946), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 157,
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Abū Ja`far, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa al-Ash`ari al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according
to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 82, person # 198), al-Ṭūsī
(See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 60-61, person # 75 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>,
pg. 351, person # 5197), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg.
13-14, person # 2).</div>
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`Alī b. al-Ḥakam al-Kūfī al-Anbārī is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according to al-Ṭūsī
(See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 263, person # 376) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī,
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al-Ḥakam, Hishām b. Sālim al-Jawālīqī is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according to
al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 434, person # 1165) and al-Ḥillī
(See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 179, person # 2).</div>
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Abū al-Rabī`, Sulaymān b. Khālid b. Dahqān b. Nāfilah is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according
to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 183, person # 484) and al-Ḥillī
(See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>,<i> </i>pg. 77, person # 2).</div>
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According to al-Ṣadūq, the saying <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">وأنت ذو قرنيها</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
(And you have both its sides) refers to al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥussayn (See: al-Ṣadūq,
<i>Ma `ānī al-Akhbār</i>, pg. 206)</div>
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al-Mufīd, <i>al-Amālī</i>, Majlis # 24, pg. 213 ḥadīth # 4</div>
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Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-62455560246359319412012-08-18T13:46:00.000-07:002012-08-18T13:46:54.828-07:00Do Not Fast Three Days After Eid al-Fitr<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here are<b><u> two </u></b>authentic ḥadīth from our A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> where they have explicitly stated that the three days following Eid al-Fiṭr and Eid al-Aḍḥa, we should not fast, because those days are for eating and drinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We have ḥadīth about fasting six days in the month of Shawwāl, Hurr al-`Āmilī has interpreted and reconciled both of these narrations to mean that you can do the six days of fasting after the three days have passed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَلَّالِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع لَا تَصُمْ بَعْدَ الْأَضْحَى ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وَ لَا بَعْدَ الْفِطْرِ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِنَّهَا أَيَّامُ أَكْلٍ وَ شُرْبٍ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From Ziyād b. Abī al-Ḥilāl said, Abū `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “Do not fast three days after (Eid) al-Aḍḥa, nor three days after (Eid) al-Fiṭr, those (days) are for eating and drinking”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Do%20Not%20Fast%20Three%20Days%20After%20Eid%20al-Fitr.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Do%20Not%20Fast%20Three%20Days%20After%20Eid%20al-Fitr.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""></a></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">وَ الَّذِي رَوَاهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْهُمْ ع قَالَ إِذَا أَفْطَرْتَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ فَلَا تَصُومَنَّ بَعْدَ الْفِطْرِ تَطَوُّعاً إِلَّا بَعْدَ ثَلَاثٍ يَمْضِينَ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">From Ḥarīz from them <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “When you do al-Fiṭr of (the month of) Ramaḍān, do not do voluntary fast after (Eid) al-Fiṭr, except after three (days) have passed”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Do%20Not%20Fast%20Three%20Days%20After%20Eid%20al-Fitr.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></a></span></span> </div><div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Do%20Not%20Fast%20Three%20Days%20After%20Eid%20al-Fitr.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 4, ch. 72, pg. 330, ḥadīth # 99; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 7, pg. 170)</div></div><div id="ftn2"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Do%20Not%20Fast%20Three%20Days%20After%20Eid%20al-Fitr.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 4, ch. 67, pg. 298, ḥadīth # 5; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 7, pg. 113)</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography</span><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.</div></w:sdt><br />
</div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-3857257500324569232012-08-15T22:55:00.000-07:002012-08-15T22:55:15.779-07:00Eat Something Before Salat on Eid Fitr<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unfortunately, the month of Ramaḍān is coming to an end, since it is coming to an end, there are some things related to `Eid al-Fiṭr that I would like to present for us to get a better understanding of how the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and our A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> conducted themselves during this auspicious day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here is some <b>authentic</b> ḥadīth from the A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, telling us to eat some food before going to our `Eid prayers. Eating something before the `Eid prayers of al-Fiṭr is <i>sunnah<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span></span></a></i>. </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ اطْعَمْ يَوْمَ الْفِطْرِ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَخْرُجَ إِلَى الْمُصَلَّى<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">From Halabī from Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, "Eat on the day of al-Fiṭr before you leave to the place of prayer."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">وَ رَوَى حَرِيزٌ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ لَا تَخْرُجْ يَوْمَ الْفِطْرِ حَتَّى تَطْعَمَ شَيْئاً</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">And it is narrated (from) Harīz from Zurārah from Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, "Do not leave on the day of al-Fiṭr until you have eating something."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ الْأَكْلُ قَبْلَ الْخُرُوجِ يَوْمَ الْعِيدِ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَأْكُلْ فَلَا بَأْسَ</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">From Samā`ah from Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “Eat before leaving on the day of `Eid (al-Fiṭr), and if you do not eat, there is no problem.”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> There is an authentic ḥadīth from Imām al-Bāqir <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> that Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> after saying that one should eat on the day of al-Fiṭr (before the Prayer), he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “That is what we do”. (See: al-Ṣadūq, <i>Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh</i>, vol. 1, pg. 508, ḥadīth # 1465)</div></div><div id="ftn2"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 168, ḥadīth # 1; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan (Good) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 408)</div></div><div id="ftn3"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh</i>, vol. 1, pg. 508, ḥadīth # 1465; al-Majlisī I (al-Majlisī’s father) said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī I, <i>Rawdah al-Muttaqīn</i>, vol. 2, pg. 743)</div></div><div id="ftn4"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Eat%20Something%20Before%20Salat%20on%20Eid%20Fitr.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 3, ch. 6 (Salāh al-`Īdayn), pg. 137, ḥadīth # 35; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 5, pg. 189)<br />
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</div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-78900255195220069072012-08-07T23:05:00.000-07:002012-08-07T23:05:33.352-07:00One Hundred Rakat Salat for Laylatul Qadr<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>ḥadīth where Imām al-Kā<u>dh</u>im <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> tells us what we can do on the 21<sup>st</sup> and 23<sup>rd</sup> nights in the Month of Ramaḍān. According to our ḥadīth, the possibility of <i>Laylat al-Qadr </i>falling on those nights is the greatest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Imām <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> says that we should read a 100 <i>rak`ah </i>prayer on each night of the 21<sup>st</sup> and the 23<sup>rd</sup> of the month of Ramaḍān. The prayer consists of two <i>rak`ah</i>, and you recite Sūrah al-Fātiḥah first and then recite Sūrah al-Ikhlās (Sūrah # 112) ten times, and do this in each <i>rak`ah</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">محمد بن يحيى عن أحمد بن محمد عن الحسين بن سعيد عن الحسن عن سليمان الجعفري قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ع صَلِّ لَيْلَةَ إِحْدَى وَ عِشْرِينَ وَ لَيْلَةَ ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِائَةَ رَكْعَةٍ تَقْرَأُ فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ- قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />
Muḥammad b. Yaḥya<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> from al-Ḥussayn b. Sa`īd<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> from al-Ḥasan<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> from Sulaymān al-Ja`farī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> said, Abū al-Ḥasan <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: “Pray on the twenty-first (21<sup>st</sup>) and the twenty-third (23<sup>rd</sup>) a one hundred <i>rak`ah</i> (<i>salāh</i>), and recite (after al-Fātiḥah) in every <i>rak`ah</i> – Sūrah al-Ikhlās (Sūrah # 112) ten times.”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Yaḥya is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 353, person # 946) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 157, person # 110).</div></div><div id="ftn2"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 81-83, person # 198), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 60-61, person # 75).</div></div><div id="ftn3"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Ḥussayn b. Sa`īd b. Hammād is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 149-150, person # 230 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 355, person # 5257), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 39, person # 3).</div></div><div id="ftn4"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></a> al-Ḥasan b. Sa`īd b. Hammād is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 136, person # 197 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 354, person # 5243), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 39, person # 3).</div></div><div id="ftn5"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Sulaymān b. Ja`far al-Ja`farī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 182-183, person # 483) al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 222, person # 328 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 338, person # 5027), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 77-78, person # 3).</div></div><div id="ftn6"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/100%20Rakat%20Salat%20for%20Laylatul%20Qadr.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī,<i> al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 155, ḥadīth # 4; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ `alal Dhāhir (Apparently Authentic)</b>. (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 379). The only question al-Majlisī had is with some of the <i>naskh </i>(manuscripts) it said “From al-Ḥasan b. Sulaymān” instead of “From al-Ḥasan from Sulymān”. I have looked the <i>naskh </i>that al-Ṣadūq has put in his <i>Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh</i>, and Fayḍ al-Kashānī has put in his <i>al-Wāfī</i>, and the correct <i>naskh </i>(manuscript) is “From al-Ḥasan from Sulaymān”. Thus making this ḥadīth <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b>.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography</span><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.</div></w:sdt><br />
</div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-19900427778626851252012-08-07T22:31:00.000-07:002012-08-07T22:31:08.093-07:00The Prophet's Sunnah During the Last Ten Days of Ramadan<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here is a <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable) </b>ḥadīth of how the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> conducted himself during the last ten days of the month of Ramaḍān. Inshā’Allāh, we can implement this and revive this <i>sunnah</i> during the last ten days of the month of Ramaḍān.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِذَا دَخَلَ الْعَشْرُ الْأَوَاخِرُ شَدَّ الْمِئْزَرَ وَ اجْتَنَبَ النِّسَاءَ وَ أَحْيَا اللَّيْلَ وَ تَفَرَّغَ لِلْعِبَادَةِ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />
From Abī Baṣīr said, Abū `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “When the last ten (days of the Month of Ramaḍān) entered, the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> would tighten his waistcloth (<i>izār</i>), he would avoid his wives, stay awake during the night and dedicate it to worship (<i>ibādah</i>)”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/The%20Prophet's%20Sunnah%20During%20the%20Last%20Ten%20Days%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/The%20Prophet's%20Sunnah%20During%20the%20Last%20Ten%20Days%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī,<i> al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 155, ḥadīth # 3; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable)</b>. (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 378)</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"> <w:sdt docparttype="Bibliographies" docpartunique="t" id="1077607358" sdtdocpart="t"> </w:sdt></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></span></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"> <div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.</div></w:sdt> </div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-22632200154919867332012-08-02T20:59:00.001-07:002012-08-02T23:56:32.244-07:00Cook Tasting Food While Fasting<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here are <b><u>four</u></b> authentic Aḥādīth that allows for a cooking person who is fasting to taste the food they are making. There is an authentic ḥadīth<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> where the Imām <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> denies a person from tasting the food, but scholars interpret that ḥadīth as it being <i>makrūh </i>(undesirable) to taste the food without a reason (i.e. to check for salt, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The ḥadīth regarding a mother chewing the food for her child, if she happens to swallow it, she will have to spit three times.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ الصَّائِمَةِ تَطْبُخُ الْقِدْرَ فَتَذُوقُ الْمَرَقَةَ تَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ قَالَ وَ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ يَكُونُ لَهَا الصَّبِيُّ وَ هِيَ صَائِمَةٌ فَتَمْضَغُ الْخُبْزَ وَ تُطْعِمُهُ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ وَ الطَّيْرَ إِنْ كَانَ لَهَا</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From al-Ḥalabī from Abī `Abd Allāh that he was asked about a women cooking and she is fasting and she tastes the broth in the pot. He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘No problem’. He (al-Ḥalabī) said that he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> was asked about a women who has a child, and she is fasting, can she chew up the bread and feed him (the child)? So he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘No problem, (also is the case) for a bird she has’</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">وَ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ سَأَلَ ابْنُ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع- وَ أَنَا أَسْمَعُ عَنِ الصَّائِمِ يَصُبُّ الدَّوَاءَ فِي أُذُنِهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ وَ يَذُوقُ الْمَرَقَ وَ يَزُقُّ الْفَرْخَ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From Hammād b. `Uthmān said, Ibn Abī Ya`fūr asked Abā `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, that I heard a fasting person can pour medicine in his hears. He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘Yes, and he can taste broth and he can chew for fledgling’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يَذُوقَ الرَّجُلُ الصَّائِمُ الْقِدْرَ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From Muḥammad b. Muslim from Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘There is no problem if a fasting person tastes (what is in) the pot’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ مُوسَى ع قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الصَّائِمِ يَذُوقُ الشَّرَابَ وَ الطَّعَامَ يَجِدُ طَعْمَهُ فِي حَلْقِهِ قَالَ لَا يَفْعَلُ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ فَعَلَ فَمَا عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لَا شَيْءَ عَلَيْهِ وَ لَا يَعُودُ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">`Alī b. Ja`far from his brother Mūsa <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘I asked him about a fasting person tasting the drink and food until he finds the food in his throat’. He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>said: ‘Do not do that’ I said: ‘And if he does (that), what is upon?’ He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘There is nothing upon him, nor does he have to repeat (his fasts)’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 115, ḥadīth # 4; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 298):</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عِدَّةٌ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">مِنْ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">أَصْحَابِنَا</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَنْ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">أَحْمَدَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">بْنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">مُحَمَّدٍ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">الْحُسَيْنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">بْنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">سَعِيدٍ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَنْ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَلِيِّ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">بْنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">النُّعْمَانِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَنْ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">سَعِيدٍ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">الْأَعْرَجِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">سَأَلْتُ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">أَبَا</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَبْدِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">اللَّهِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ع</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عَنِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">الصَّائِمِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">يَذُوقُ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">الشَّيْ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ءَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">وَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">لَا</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">يَبْلَعُهُ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">لَا</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
From Sa`īd al-A`raj said, ‘I asked Abā `Abd Allāh about a fasting person who tastes something and does not swallow it?’ He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">عليه</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">السلام</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘No’</span></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> This is based off of the ḥadīth narrated by al-Mufīd in his <i>al-Muqni`ah,</i> ch. 38, pg. 380</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 115, ḥadīth # 4; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan (Good) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 297)</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 4, pg. 311, ḥadīth # 9; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 7, pg. 139)</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 4, pg. 311, ḥadīth # 8; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Like Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 7, pg. 139)</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Cook%20Tasting%20Food%20While%20Fasting.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 4, pg. 325, ḥadīth # 72; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 7, pg. 162)</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><w:sdt docparttype="Bibliographies" docpartunique="t" id="639671648" sdtdocpart="t"></w:sdt></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography</span><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"></w:sdt><br />
<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Mufīd. <i>al-Muqni`ah</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: al-Mu’tamir al-`Ālamī lil-Alfiyyah al-Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-15629819529672380472012-08-02T15:53:00.002-07:002012-08-02T17:28:38.507-07:00Desirability of Sahur in the Month of Ramadan<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here are two authentic ḥadīth, one <b>Ḥasan (Good)</b> and the other <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable), </b>which discusses the extreme desirability to do <i>saḥūr </i>(eating before Fajr) for month of Ramaḍān, and the desirability to do <i>saḥūr </i>for voluntary fasts as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ السَّحُورِ لِمَنْ أَرَادَ الصَّوْمَ أَ وَاجِبٌ هُوَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِأَنْ لَا يَتَسَحَّرَ إِنْ شَاءَ وَ أَمَّا فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَإِنَّهُ أَفْضَلُ أَنْ يَتَسَحَّرَ نُحِبُّ أَنْ لَا يُتْرَكَ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />
From Abī Baṣīr from Abī `Abd Allāh said, I asked him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> about <i>suḥūr </i>for one who wants to fast, is it <i>wājib </i>upon him?’ So he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘There is no problem if he does not do <i>saḥūr </i>if he wants, but as for in the month of Ramaḍān, it is better (<i>afḍal</i>) that he does <i>saḥūr</i>. We love to not abandon it in the month of Ramaḍān’</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Disirability%20of%20Suhur%20in%20the%20Month%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Disirability%20of%20Suhur%20in%20the%20Month%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ زُرْعَةَ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ السَّحُورِ لِمَنْ أَرَادَ الصَّوْمَ فَقَالَ أَمَّا فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَإِنَّ الْفَضْلَ فِي السَّحُورِ وَ لَوْ بِشَرْبَةٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ وَ أَمَّا فِي التَّطَوُّعِ فَمَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَتَسَحَّرَ فَلْيَفْعَلْ وَ مَنْ لَمْ يَفْعَلْ فَلَا بَأْسَ</span><span style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><br />
From Samā`ah said, ‘I asked him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> about <i>suḥūr </i>for one who wants to fast’ So he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘As for in the month of Ramaḍān it is better to do <i>sahūr</i></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, even if it is a sip of water. And as for in voluntary (fasts) whoever I love does </span><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">saḥūr, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">and whoever does not, then there is no problem’</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Disirability%20of%20Suhur%20in%20the%20Month%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></a></span></span> </div><div><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Disirability%20of%20Suhur%20in%20the%20Month%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 94, ḥadīth # 1; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan (Good) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 259)</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Disirability%20of%20Suhur%20in%20the%20Month%20of%20Ramadan.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 4, pg. 94, ḥadīth # 2; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 16, pg. 260)</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></span></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"></w:sdt><br />
<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-63577614964276981702012-08-01T12:40:00.004-07:002012-08-01T12:42:08.688-07:00Raising Hands Above Head After Salat<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>ḥadīth that the great companion Ṣafwān b. Mihrān al-Jammāl saw Imām al-Ṣādiq <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> after his prayer raised his hands together above his head.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I have already posted some supplications that are authentic to read after your obligatory <i>salāh</i> (click <a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/2011/06/taqibat-and-dua.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I have also already posted <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>ḥadīth that says when you do <i>du`ā’</i>. you raise your hands (click <a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/2011/05/raising-your-hands-for-supplication.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Traditional Arabic","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيد عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ الْجَمَّالِ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِذَا صَلَّى فَفَرَغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ جَمِيعاً فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span dir="LTR"></span><br />
(al-Ṭūsī’s chain of narrators to</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;">) al-Ḥussayn b. Sa`īd</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> from Ibn Abī Najrān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> from Ṣafwān b. Mihrān al-Jammāl</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> said, “I saw Abā `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> when he finished from his <i>salāh </i>he raised his hands together above his head”</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></a></span></span> </div><div><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Khoei says that the <i>tarīq </i>(path) from al-Ṭūsī to al-Ḥussayn b. Sa`īd al-Ahwāzī is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Khoei, <i>Mu`jam Rijāl al-Hadīth</i>, vol. 6, pg. 265-291)</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Ḥussayn b. Sa`īd b. Hammād is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 149-150, person # 230 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 355, person # 5257), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 39, person # 3).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></a> `Abd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Najrān is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 235-236, person # 622) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 114, person # 7).</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Ṣafwān b. Mihrān b. al-Mughīrah al-Jammāl is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 198, person # 525) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 89, person # 2).</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Raise%20Hands%20Above%20Your%20Hands%20After%20Salat.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 2, pg. 106, ḥadīth # 171; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 3, pg. 613)<br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Khoei. <i>Mu`jam Rijāl al-Hadīth</i>. 5th. 24 vols. 1413.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-408511944913452942012-07-30T21:31:00.002-07:002012-07-30T21:33:20.810-07:00Reciting Salawat Removes Hypocrisy<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here are two <b>Ḥasan (Good)</b> or <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> ḥadīth about reciting <i>salawāt</i> removes <i>nifāq</i>. Also, in the second ḥadīth it says that the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> says to “raise your voices” when saying <i>salawāt</i>, which this can be seen in Shī`ah centers all over the world. Both <i>aḥādīth</i> have the same chain of narrators.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الصَّلَاةُ عَلَيَّ وَ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِي تَذْهَبُ بِالنِّفَاق<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span>`Alī b. Ibrāhīm</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from his father</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2</a></span></span></span></span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;" title="">]</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">from Ibn Abī `Umayr</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Abd Allāh b. Sinān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Abī `Abd Allāh said, the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “<i>Salāh </i>(Prayers) upon me and upon my Ahl al-Bayt removes hypocrisy (<i>nifāq)</i>”</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ارْفَعُوا أَصْوَاتَكُمْ بِالصَّلَاةِ عَلَيَّ فَإِنَّهَا تَذْهَبُ بِالنِّفَاقِ</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[`Alī b. Ibrāhīm</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from his father</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from] Ibn Abī `Umayr</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Abd Allāh b. Sinān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Abī `Abd Allāh, that he heard him say that the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “Raise your voices in <i>Salāh</i> (prayers) upon me, for it removes hypocrisy (<i>nifāq</i>)”</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></a></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person #9).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 326, person # 887), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 404, person # 618 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 265, person # 5413), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 140, person #16).</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> `Abd Allāh b. Sinān is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 214, person # 558), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 291, person # 434) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 104-105, person #15).</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 2, pg 492, ḥadīth # 8; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Good like a Ṣaḥīḥ (ḥadīth))</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 12, pg. 98).</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> Refer to footnote 1.</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Refer to footnote 2.</div></div><div id="ftn8"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> Refer to footnote 3.</div></div><div id="ftn9"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a> Refer to footnote 4.</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Saying%20Salawat%20Removes%20Nifaq.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 2, pg 493, ḥadīth # 13; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Good like a Ṣaḥīḥ (ḥadīth))</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 12, pg. 99).</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-74472503606023851142012-07-27T09:31:00.004-07:002012-07-27T09:34:49.546-07:00Recite Surah Rahman After Fajr Salat<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> ḥadīth that says it is <i>mustaḥabb </i>(desirable) to recite Sūrah al-Raḥmān after <i>Fajr </i>prayers on Fridays. Also, this ḥadīth says that when you recite the verse that repeats in Sūrah al-Rahman, we should say “I do not deny any of Your bounties of my Lord” (</span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">لَا بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ آلَائِكَ رَبِّ أُكَذِّبُ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span>).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">al-Majlisī has graded this ḥadīth in <i>al-Kāfī</i> as <b>Da`īf (weak)<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>,</span></b></span></span></b> this grading by al-Majlisī is wrong and inconsistent by al-Majlisī’s own standards. He has graded a ḥadīth with the same <i>sanad </i>(chain of narrators) as this ḥadīth as <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span></span></a></b>. This ḥadīth has also been narrated by al-Ṭūsī in his <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkam</i>, and al-Majlisī has graded this ḥadīth as <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></b></span></span></a></b>. al-Ḥillī has graded this ḥadīth as <b>Ṣaḥīḥ<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></b></span></span></a></b> as well.</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ يُسْتَحَبُّ أَنْ تَقْرَأَ فِي دُبُرِ الْغَدَاةِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ الرَّحْمَنَ كُلَّهَا ثُمَّ تَقُولَ كُلَّمَا قُلْتَ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">al-Ḥussayn b. Muḥammad</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Abd Allāh b. `Āmir</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Alī b. Mahziyār</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Muḥammad b. Yaḥya</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Ḥammād b. `Uthmān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh say, “It is <i>mustahabb </i>(desirable) to recite all of Sūrah al-Raḥmān after the morning prayer on the day of Jumu`ah, and when you say<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>﴿</span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">فَبِأَيِّ آلاءِ رَبِّكُما تُكَذِّبانِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">﴾</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(And which of my the bounties of your Lord do you deny?), you should say,<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>«لَا بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ آلَائِكَ رَبِّ أُكَذِّبُ»</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(I do not deny any of Your bounties of my Lord)</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 15, pg. 370</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 13, pg. 78, The ḥadīth he has graded is from al-Kulaynī’s <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 3, pg. 27, ḥadīth # 8:</div><div align="center" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> قَالَ كُنْتُ قَاعِداً عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فَدَعَا بِمَاءٍ فَمَلَأَ بِهِ كَفَّهُ فَعَمَّ بِهِ وَجْهَهُ ثُمَّ مَلَأَ كَفَّهُ فَعَمَّ بِهِ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى ثُمَّ مَلَأَ كَفَّهُ فَعَمَّ بِهِ يَدَهُ الْيُسْرَى ثُمَّ مَسَحَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَ رِجْلَيْهِ وَ قَالَ هَذَا وُضُوءُ مَنْ لَمْ يُحْدِثْ حَدَثاً يَعْنِي بِهِ التَّعَدِّيَ فِي الْوُضُوءِ</span></div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 4, pg. 351</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Muntaha al-Muṭṭalib, </i>vol. 5, pg. 472</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> al-Ḥussayn b. Muḥammad b. `Imrān al-`Asharī al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 66, person # 156) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 52, person #24).</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> `Abd Allāh b. `Āmir b. `Imrān al-`Asharī al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 218, person # 570) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 111, person #42).</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 253-254, person # 664), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 265-266, person # 379 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 360, person # 5336) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 92-93, person #6).</div></div><div id="ftn8"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-Khazzāz is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 359, person # 964) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 158, person # 120).</div></div><div id="ftn9"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a> Ḥammād b. `Uthmān al-Nāb is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 142, person # 371), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 156, person # 240) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 56, person #3).</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Mustahabb%20to%20Recite%20Surah%20Rahman%20on%20Friday%20Mornings.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 3, pg. 429, ḥadīth # 6; al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 3, ch. 1, pg. 8, ḥadīth # 25</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Muntaha al-Muṭṭalib</i>. 1st ed. 10 vols. Mashhad: Majma` al-Buhūth al-Islāmiyyah, 1412.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.<o:p></o:p></div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-34783208547526364192012-07-23T14:59:00.007-07:002012-07-24T09:17:41.913-07:00Ulul Azm<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable)</b> ḥadīth that gives the names of the <i>Ulul `Azm</i> Prophets <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, another beneficial thing about this ḥadīth is that it says that there were prophets after Prophet `Īsa <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. It is commonly believed that there were no prophets between Prophet `Īsa <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and Prophet Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Another great thing about this ḥadīth</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> is that it says that th</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">e h</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">alāl of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Muḥammad is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">halāl until the Day of Judgment, and his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">harām is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">harām until the Day of Judgment. I have given another </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ḥadīth</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> that says this same thing (Click <a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/2010/12/our-imaams-attitude-towards-bidah.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span><br />
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</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>«عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَاصْبِرْ كَما صَبَرَ أُولُوا الْعَزْمِ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ فَقَالَ نُوحٌ وَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ وَ مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قُلْتُ كَيْفَ صَارُوا أُولِي الْعَزْمِ قَالَ لِأَنَّ نُوحاً بُعِثَ بِكِتَابٍ وَ شَرِيعَةٍ وَ كُلُّ مَنْ جَاءَ بَعْدَ نُوحٍ أَخَذَ بِكِتَابِ نُوحٍ وَ شَرِيعَتِهِ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ حَتَّى جَاءَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ ع بِالصُّحُفِ وَ بِعَزِيمَةِ تَرْكِ كِتَابِ نُوحٍ لَا كُفْراً بِهِ فَكُلُّ نَبِيٍّ جَاءَ بَعْدَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع أَخَذَ بِشَرِيعَةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ وَ بِالصُّحُفِ حَتَّى جَاءَ مُوسَى بِالتَّوْرَاةِ وَ شَرِيعَتِهِ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ وَ بِعَزِيمَةِ تَرْكِ الصُّحُفِ وَ كُلُّ نَبِيٍّ جَاءَ بَعْدَ مُوسَى ع أَخَذَ بِالتَّوْرَاةِ وَ شَرِيعَتِهِ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ حَتَّى جَاءَ الْمَسِيحُ ع بِالْإِنْجِيلِ وَ بِعَزِيمَةِ تَرْكِ شَرِيعَةِ مُوسَى وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ فَكُلُّ نَبِيٍّ جَاءَ بَعْدَ الْمَسِيحِ أَخَذَ بِشَرِيعَتِهِ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ حَتَّى جَاءَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص فَجَاءَ بِالْقُرْآنِ وَ بِشَرِيعَتِهِ وَ مِنْهَاجِهِ فَحَلَالُهُ حَلَالٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ حَرَامُهُ حَرَامٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَهَؤُلَاءِ أُولُو الْعَزْمِ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ ع»<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">From a number of our companion</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Uthmān b. `Īsa</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Samā`ah b. Mihrān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> said, I asked Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> about Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> saying, “Have patience like the <i>Ulul al-`Azm</i> had patience” (46:35). And he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “(They are) Nūḥ, Ibrāhīm, Mūsa, `Īsa and Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>” I said, ‘How did they become <i>Ulil al-`Azm</i>? He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘Because Nūḥ was sent with a book and a sharī`ah, and whoever came after Nūḥ took Nūḥ’s book, and his (Nūḥ’s) sharī`ah, and his <i>manhaj </i>(course) until<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibrāhīm <span dir="RTL"></span><i><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> came with his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">suḥuf </span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">and with determination. He abandoned Nūḥ’s book, but not disbelieving in it, and every prophet that came after Ibrāhīm</span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="FA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">took by the sharī`ah of Ibrāhīm, his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">manhaj</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, and the </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">suḥuf</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> until<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Mūsa came with the Torah and his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">sharī`ah</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">manhaj</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, and with determination. He abandoned the </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">suḥuf, </span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">and every prophet that came after Mūsa</span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span> took the Torah, and his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">sharī`ah</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, and his </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">manhaj</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> until<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">al-Masīḥ (`Īsa) </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span> came with the </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Injīl </span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">and</span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">with determination. He abandoned the <i>sharī`ah </i></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">of Mūsa, and his <i>manhaj</i>, and every prophet that came after <i>al-Masīḥ </i>took his (`Īsa) <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> sharī`ah, and his <i>manhaj</i> until<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> came with the Qur’ān, with his <i>sharī`ah</i>, his <i>manhaj</i>, so his <i>halāl is halāl</i> until the Day of Judgment, and his <i>harām</i> is <i>harām</i> until the Day of Judgment, and these are the <i>Ulul `Azm</i> from the Messenger”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> When al-Kulaynī says “From a number of our companions from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid”, he is getting his ḥadīth from a number of people: `Alī b. Ibrāhīm al-Qummī, `Alī b. Muḥammad b. `Abd Allāh b. Udhaynah, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Umayyah, `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn al-Sa`adābādī.</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Barqī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy)</b> according to according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 76-77, person # 182), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 53, person # 65) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 15, person # 7)</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> `Uthmān b. `Īsa al-Kilābī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Ghaybah</i>, pg. 63-63). He is said to be a <i>Wāqifī </i>according to al-Ṭūsī.</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Samā`ah b. Mihrān<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy)</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 193, person # 517) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 15, person # 7). al-Ṭūsī said Samā`ah is of the <i>Wāqifiyyah</i> (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 337, person # 5021).<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Ulul%20Azm%20Prophets.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 2, pg. 17-18, ḥadīth # 2. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Al-Majlisī grades this ḥadīth <b><i>Muwaththaq </i>(Reliable)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 7, pg. 98)</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></span></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"></w:sdt><br />
<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Ghaybah</i>. Ed. `Ibād Allāh al-Ṭihrānī. 1st ed. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Ma`ārif al-Islāmiyyah, 1411.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-67843857857303755382012-07-19T16:22:00.001-07:002012-07-19T23:21:57.042-07:001000 Doors of Knowledge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the commonly known things of both the Shī`ahs and Sunnīs is the great knowledge of Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. Even Sunnīs acknowledge that Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> was one of the most knowledgeable, if not the most knowledgeable companion of the Prophet Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> This article will analyze one of the most famous aḥādīth that shows the reason for the vast knowledge of Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. The narration I am talking about is before the death of the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> brought Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> close and Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> says that the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> taught him a door (of knowledge), and that door opens a 1000 more doors, which in turn opened up a 1000 more doors. This is seen in both the Shī`ah and Sunnī books.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The focus of this article is to analyze the narrations that are found in al-Ṣadūq’s <i>al-Khiṣāl</i>, all of these narrations are from his <i>al-Khiṣāl</i>. We have analyzed the chains of narrators in depth, and have placed them into three categories.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click here -</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/6/24/2896028/1000%20Doors%20of%20Knowledge%20-%20Authentic%20Hadith.pdf" target="_blank">1000 Doors of Knowledge</a></span></b></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-57495925392471026252012-07-16T11:54:00.003-07:002012-07-17T21:17:52.675-07:00Memorize 99 Names of Allah<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> or <b>Muwaththaq (Reliable)</b> ḥadīth that gives the number of names of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and tells us to call by them. It also says whoever memorizes them will go to heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>«</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">حدثنا أحمد بن زياد بن جعفر الهمداني رضي الله عنه قال حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم عن أبيه عن أبي الصلت عبد السلام بن صالح الهروي عن علي بن موسى الرضا عن أبيه عن آبائه عن علي (ع) قال قال رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله)</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> لله عز وجل تسعة وتسعون اسماً، من دعا الله بها استجاب له، ومن أحصاها دخل الجنة»<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Narrated to us Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Ja`far al-Hamadānī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(رضي الله عنه)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span dir="LTR"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> from his father<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> from Abī al-Ṣalt `Abd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ al-Harawī[<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">4]</span></span></span></a> from `Alī b. Mūsa al-Riḍā from his father from his fathers from `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, the Messenger of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: “For Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> has ninety-nine (99) names, whoever does <i>du`ā’ </i>by them, he will be answered. And whoever memorizes them<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> will enter <i>jannah</i>.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><w:sdt docparttype="Bibliographies" docpartunique="t" id="233144384" sdtdocpart="t"> </w:sdt><br />
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<div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. al-Hamadānī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Ṣadūq (See: al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, pg. 369) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 19, person # 37).</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person #9).</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> `Abd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ, Abū al-Ṣalt al-Harawī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī’s <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 245, person # 643) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 117, person # 2). al-Ṭūsī calls Abū al-Ṣalt an <b><i>`Āmī </i>(Sunnī)</b> (See: al-Ṭūsī’s <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 360, person # 5328). al-Khoei contends that Abū al-Ṣalt was not an <i>`Āmī</i>, rather he was a Shī`ah. Either way, his status a <i>thiqah </i>narrator does not change.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> There is a difference of opinion regarding the words (<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">من</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">أحصاها</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>– <i>man aḥṣāhā</i>). According to Ibn Athīr some say that it means <b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">مَنْ</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">حَفِظَها</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">عَنْ</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">ظَهْرِ</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif;">قَلْبِهِ</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>“whoever memorizes them (learns by heart)”. This ḥadīth is also found in Sunnī books, and they have translated it as “whoever memorizes them”. Other people have said it means “having knowledge of its meanings and acting by it, while others say “having knowledge of it, believing in it, and having certainty of the characteristics of Allāh”. (See: Ibn Mun<u>dh</u>ūr, <i>Lisān al-`Arab</i>, vol. 14, pg. 184 & Abū Manṣūr al-Harawī (d. 370), <i>Tahdhīb al-Lughah</i>, vol. 5, pg. 107)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/99%20Names%20of%20Allaah,%20Call%20by%20Them.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>al-Tawḥīd</i>, ch. 29 – Chapter on Names of Allāh and the Difference Between their Meanings, pg. 195, ḥadīth # 9</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography</span><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></h1><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"></w:sdt><br />
<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Harawī, Abū Manṣūr. <i>Tahdhīb al-Lughah</i>. Ed. Muḥammad b. `Awḍ Mur`ab. 1st ed. 8 vols. Beirut: Dār Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 2001.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṣadūq. <i>al-Tawḥīd</i>. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1398/1978.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>. 2nd. 2 vols in 1 vols. Qum: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1395/1975.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Mundhūr, Ibn. <i>Lisān al-`Arab</i>. Qum: Nashr Adab al-Hawzah, 1405.<o:p></o:p></div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-33203668934259518362012-07-08T17:51:00.001-07:002012-07-08T17:51:49.273-07:00Fasting Three Days in Sha'ban<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Muwaththaq (Authentic) </b>ḥadīth about the <i>faḍā’il </i>(merits) for fasting at least three days in the month of Sha`ban.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">حدثنا أَحْمَدَ بْنِ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> «مَنْ صَامَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ شَعْبَانَ وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص شَفِيعَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Narrated to us Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Ja`far al-Hamadānī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> said `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> from his father<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> from Ibn Abī `Umayr<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> from Abān (b. `Uthmān)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> from Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “Whoever fasts three days of Sha`ban, <i>jannah is</i> <i>wājib </i>for him, and the Messenger of Allāh will do <i>shafā`ah </i>on the day of Judgment for him”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. al-Hamadānī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Ṣadūq (See: al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, pg. 369) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 19, person # 37).</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a>Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person #9).</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 326, person # 887), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 404, person # 618 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 265, person # 5413), al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 140, person #16). Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr narrates his ḥadīth from Abān b. `Uthmān.</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Abān b. `Uthmān is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Kashī’s statements of him being amongst the Aṣhāb al-Ijmā` (See: al-Kashī, <i>Ikhtiyār Ma`rifah al-Rijāl</i>, 375, statement # 705). After a lengthy discussion al-Ḥillī says he <b>accepts </b>his narrations (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 21-22, person # 3).</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Fasting%20Three%20Days%20in%20Sha'ban.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>Faḍā’il al-Ash-har al-Thalāthah</i>, Kitāb Faḍā’il Sha`ban, pg. 43, pg. 60, ḥadīth # 42:</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Hādī al-Najafi says this ḥadīth has a <b>mu`tabar (authentic) </b><i>sanad </i>(chain of narrators) (See: Hādī al-Najafī, <i>Mawsū`ah Aḥādīth Ahl al-Bayt,</i> vol. 5, pg. 355-356).</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span dir="RTL"></span>«بيان اعلم أن أرباب السير اختلفوا في عمره ع فقيل كان ألف سنة و قيل كان ألفا و أربعمائة و خمسين سنة و قيل كان ألفا و أربعمائة و سبعين سنة و قيل ألفا و ثلاثمائة سنة و أخبارنا المعتبرة تدل على أنه عاش ألفين و خمسمائة سنة و هذا الخبر لا يعتمد عليه لمخالفته لأقوال الفريقين و أخبارهم»</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">«Commentary: Know that the great biographers differ on his <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> age. Some say he was 1000 years, others say he was 1450 years, others say he was 1470 years, and others say he was 1300 years. Our authentic narrations show that he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> lived for 2500 years, and this <i>khabar </i>(narration)</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></b></span></span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> should not be relied upon for it contradicts the opinions of the two sects and their narrations»</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>narration shows that Prophet Nūḥ <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> lived for 2500 years, and Imām al-Ṣādiq <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> breaks down the life of Nūḥ <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and divides it into parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;">حدثنا أحمد بن زياد بن جعفر الهمداني ره قال حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم عن أبيه إبراهيم بن هاشم عن علي بن الحكم عن هشام بن سالم عن الصادق جعفر بن محمد ع </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">قال عاش نوح ع ألفي سنة و خمسمائة سنة منها ثمان مائة و خمسون سنة قبل أن يبعث و ألف سنة إلا خمسين عاما و هو في قومه يدعوهم و مائتا سنة في عمل السفينة و خمسمائة عام بعد ما نزل من السفينة و نضب الماء فمصر الأمصار و أسكن ولده البلدان ثم إن ملك الموت جاءه و هو في الشمس فقال السلام عليك فرد عليه نوح و قال له ما جاء بك يا ملك الموت فقال جئت لأقبض روحك فقال له تدعني أدخل من الشمس إلى الظل فقال له نعم فتحول نوح ع ثم قال يا ملك الموت فكان ما مر بي في الدنيا مثل تحولي من الشمس إلى الظل فامض لما أمرت به قال فقبض روحه ع<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Narrated to us Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Ja`far al-Hamadānī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span> said `Alī b. Ibrāhīm</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> narrated to us from his father Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from `Alī b. al-Ḥakam</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Hishām b. Sālim</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> from al-Ṣādiq Ja`far b. Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, “Nūḥ lived for 2500 years, from it 850 before he was sent (<i>ba`ath - </i>becoming a Prophet), 950 years he was calling to his people, 200 years in building the <i>safīnah </i>(ship), and 500 years after the ship descended and the water dried out, then he built the cities and resided there with his children in the cities. Then the Malik al-Mawt (Angel of Death) came to him and he was in the sunshine, and he said, ‘Assalāmu `Alaykum’. And Nūḥ replied to him. He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to him, ‘Why have you come, O Angel?’ So he said, ‘I have come to take your life’. Then he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘Can you let me enter from the sunshine to the shade?’ So he (the angel) said, ‘Yes’. Nūḥ <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> moved, then he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘O Angel of Death, what has passed by me in this world was like me moving from the sunshine to the shade. You may now do what you were commanded.’ He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘Then he captured his <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> soul.’</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">This ḥadīth is also <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> through another chain of narrators in al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></b></span></span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Sūrah al-`Ankabūt (29) : Verse 14</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī, </i>vol. 8, pg. 284, ḥadīth # 429; al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Mursal (Disconnected)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 26, pg. 303</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;">There is also another ḥadīth that says 2450 and it is narrated in al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, ch. 46, ḥadīth # 3. This ḥadīth is also <b>Da`īf (Weak)</b>, because of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Tamīmī, who is <b>majhūl (unknown)</b> (See: al-Shāhrūdī, <i>Mustadarakāt `ilm al-Rijāl, </i>vol. 7, pg. 378, person # 14748).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Referring to the narration that says he lived for 2450 years.</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 11, pg. 290</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. al-Hamadānī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Ṣadūq (See: al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, pg. 369) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 19, person # 37).</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person #9).</div></div><div id="ftn8"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. al-Ḥakam al-Anbārī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist,</i> pg. 263-264, person # 376) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 93, person # 14).</div></div><div id="ftn9"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a> Hishām b. Sālim is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 434, person # 1165) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 152, person #71).</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>al-Amālī</i>, Majlis # 77, pg. 511-512, ḥadīth # 7<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>`Āṣif al-Muḥsinī says this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> (See: `Āṣif al-Muḥsinī’s <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 1, pg. 261). Al-Majlisī says this ḥadīth is <b>Mu`tabar (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Majlisī’s <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 11, pg. 290). `Alī Namazī al-Shāhrūdī says this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b>(See: al-Shāhrūdī’s <i>Mustadarak Safīnah al-Bihār</i>, vol. 10, pg. 160).<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn11"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Nuh's%20Age.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, ch. 46, ḥadīth # 1:</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">حدثنا محمد بن الحسن بن أحمد بن الوليد رضي الله عنه قال حدثنا محمد بن الحسن الصفار عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى عن علي بن الحكم عن هشام بن سالم عن الصادق</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Narrated to us Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. al-Walīd <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(رضي الله عنه)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār narrated to us from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa from `Alī b. al-Ḥakam from Hishām b. Sālim</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>﴿</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَاْ وَأَصْحَابَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ كَثِيرًا</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">﴾</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">“And `Ād, Thamūd, the Companions of al-Rass, and many generations between them”. <br />
(Sūrah al-Furqān (25): verse 38)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>﴿</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ وَأَصْحَابُ الرَّسِّ وَثَمُودُ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">﴾</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">“Before them rejected: the people of Nūḥ, the Companions of al-Rass and Thamūd” <br />
(Sūrah Qaf (50): verse 12)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you notice, Allāh only mentions them by names along with other groups of people who were destroyed by Allāh for their transgressions (i.e. `Ād, Thamūd and the people of Nūḥ). One of the reasons for having the Prophet <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and the A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is to fill in those details that are not found in the Qur’ān.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The first ḥadīth shows that one of the acts of transgression that the companions of al-Rass did was lesbianism, which is unfortunately still prevalent in today’s society. This ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic).<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The second ḥadīth is a very long ḥadīth, I have broken up the Arabic into sections so it is easier for the reader. In this lengthy ḥadīth, there are many different lessons that can be derived, apart from the details of the Companions of al-Rass. This ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One of the very interesting things I found in this narration was that the twelve towns of al-Rass’ names are the same names as the months of the Persian calendar, and our A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said that the Persians derived their calendar’s months from the Companions of al-Rass.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ وَ هِشَامٍ وَ حَفْصٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نِسْوَةٌ فَسَأَلَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْهُنَّ عَنِ السَّحْقِ فَقَالَ حَدُّهَا حَدُّ الزَّانِي فَقَالَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ مَا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ذَلِكَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ بَلَى قَالَتْ وَ أَيْنَ هُوَ قَالَ هُنَّ أَصْحَابُ الرَّسِّ</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">`Alī b. Ibrāhīm</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from his father</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Ibn Abī `Umayr</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Muhḥammad b. Abī Hamzah</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and Hishām (b. Sālim)</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and Hafṣ (b. al-Bakhtarī)</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Abī `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said that a woman entered upon him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and the woman asked him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> about lesbianism. So he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘Her punishment (<i>hadd</i>) is the punishment of an adulterer <i>(al-Zānī</i>). So the woman said, ‘Allāh has not mentioned that in the Qur’ān’ He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said ‘Yes (He has)’. She said, ‘Where is it?’ He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘They were the people of <i>al-Rass</i>’.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;">حدثنا أحمد بن زياد بن جعفر الهمداني رضي الله عنه قال حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم عن أبيه قال حدثنا أبو الصلت عبد السلام بن صالح الهروي قال حدثنا علي بن موسى الرضا ع عن أبيه موسى بن جعفر عن أبيه جعفر بن محمد عن أبيه محمد بن علي عن أبيه علي بن الحسين عن أبيه الحسين بن علي ع</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"> قال أتى علي بن أبي طالب قبل مقتله بثلاثة أيام رجل من أشراف بني تميم يقال له عمرو فقال يا أمير المؤمنين أخبرني عن أصحاب الرس في أي عصر كانوا و أين كانت منازلهم و من كان ملكهم و هل بعث الله عز و جل إليهم رسولا أم لا و بما ذا أهلكوا فإني لا أجد في كتاب الله عز و جل ذكرهم و لا أجد خبرهم<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Ja`far al-Hamadānī</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(رضي الله عنه)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> has narrated to us, he has said `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> has narrated to us from his father</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Abū al-Ṣalt `Abd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ al-Harawī</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> said `Alī b. Mūsa al-Riḍa narrated to us from his father Mūsa b. Ja`far from his father Ja`far b. Muḥammad from his father Muḥammad b. `Alī from his father `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn from his father al-Ḥussayn b. `Alī said,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A reputable man called `Amr from the Banū Tamīm came to `Alī b. Abī Ṭālib <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> three days before his murder, and he said, ‘O Amīr al-Mu’minīn, inform me about the people of al-Rass, in which era (did they live)? Where were their homes? Who was their king? Did Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>sent a messenger to them or not? How were they destroyed? I do not find in the Book of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> information about them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">فقال له علي ع لقد سألت من حديث ما سألني عنه أحد قبلك و لا يحدثك به أحد بعدي و ما في كتاب الله عز و جل آية إلا و أنا أعرف تفسيرها و في أي مكان نزلت من سهل أو جبل و في أي وقت نزلت من ليل أو نهار و أن هاهنا لعلما جما و أشار إلى صدره و لكن طلابه يسيرة و عن قليل يندمون لو قد يفقدوني</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to him, ‘You have asked me about story that no one has asked about it before you, and no one can inform you of it after me (unless quoting him). And there is not an <i>ayah</i> of the Book of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> except that I know its <i>tafsīr</i>, and in which place it was revealed on a plain or a mountain, and in what time it was revealed, in the night or the day.’ Pointing to his chest, here there is abundant knowledge, but the seekers of it are few, and they will regret when they lose me.’</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">و كان من قصتهم يا أخا تميم إنهم كانوا قوما يعبدون شجرة صنوبر يقال لها شاه درخت و كان يافث بن نوح غرسها على شفير عين يقال لها روشاب كانت انبعت لنوح ع بعد الطوفان و إنما سموا أصحاب الرس لأنهم رسوا نبيهم في الأرض و ذلك بعد سليمان بن داود ع و كانت لهم اثنتا عشرة قرية على شاطئ نهر يقال له الرس من بلاد المشرق و بهم سمي ذلك النهر و لم يكن يومئذ في الأرض نهر أغزر و لا أعذب منه و لا أقوى و لا قرى أكثر و لا أعمر منها تسمى إحداهن آبان و الثانية آذر و الثالثة دي و الرابعة بهمن و الخامسة إسفنديار و السادسة پروردين و السابعة أردي بهشت و الثامنة أرداد و التاسعة مرداد و العاشرة تير و الحادية عشرة مهر و الثانية عشرة شهريور</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">‘O brother from Tamīm, this is their story. They were people who used to worship the Pine Tree, and they called it <i>Shāh Darakht </i>(the King Tree). Yāfith b. Nūh planted it on the border of a spring, and he called it <i>Rūshāb, </i>and it had sprung out after Nūḥ’s <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> flood, because they buried their prophet in the earth that came after Sulaymān b. Dawud <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. They had towns along the coast of the river, and they called it (the river) <i>al-Rass</i> it was in the Eastern Hemisphere. And they were named that after the river. And there was no river more abundant and fresh on the earth that day than it. There were no towns stronger and more developed than them. They names (of the towns) were.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ābān<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ādhar<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bahman<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Isfandiyyār<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Parwardīn (Farvardin)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Urdū Bihisht (Urdi Behesht)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Urdād (Khurdād)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Murdād<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tīr<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mihr (Mehr)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Shahriwar (Shahrivar)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">و كانت أعظم مدائنهم إسفنديار و هي التي ينزلها ملكهم و كان يسمى تركوذ بن غابور بن يارش بن سازن بن نمرود بن كنعان فرعون إبراهيم ع و بها العين و الصنوبر و قد غرسوا في كل قرية منها حبة من طلع تلك الصنوبرة فنبتت الحبة و صارت شجرة عظيمة و أجروا إليها نهرا من العين التي عند الصنوبرة فنبتت الصنوبرة و صارت شجرة عظيمة و حرموا ماء العين و الأنهار فلا يشربون منها و لا أنعامهم و من فعل ذلك قتلوه و يقولون هو حياة آلهتنا فلا ينبغي لأحد أن ينقص من حياتها و يشربون هم و أنعامهم من نهر الرس الذي عليه قراهم و قد جعلوا في كل شهر من السنة في كل قرية عيدا يجتمع إليه أهلها فيضربون على الشجرة التي بها كله من حرير فيها من أنواع الصور ثم يأتون بشاة و بقر فيذبحونها قربانا للشجرة و يشعلون فيها النيران بالحطب فإذا سطع دخان تلك الذبائح و قتارها في الهواء و حال بينهم و بين النضر إلى السماء خروا للشجرة سجدا من دون الله عز و جل يبكون و يتضرعون إليها أن ترضى عنهم فكان الشيطان يجيء و يحرك أغصانها و يصيح من ساقها صياح الصبي إني قد رضيت عنكم عبادي فطيبوا نفسا و قروا عينا فيرفعون رءوسهم عند ذلك و يشربون الخمر و يضربون بالمعازف و يأخذون الدستبنذ فيكونون على ذلك يومهم و ليلتهم ثم ينصرفون</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Their largest city was Isfandiyār, it is where their king dwelled, his name was Turkūdh b. Ghābūr b. Yārish b. Sāzin b. Nimrūd b. Canaan, the fir`awn of Ibrāhīm. And the spring and pine tree were in it. They had planted a seed of it in every town, and from that the pine tree grew and became a big tree. They carried (water) from the spring which was near the pine tree, and put it on the (smaller) pine tree, and it became a big tree. And they forbade the water of the spring. And they (forbade) drinking, nor could their animals (drink from it). Whoever did that, they killed him and they said, “It (the water) is the source of our life of our gods. It is not appropriate for anyone to take from its life, and drink from it, nor the animals (drink) from the river of <i>al-Rass </i>which their towns were on. They made in every month of the year in each town an Eid. Its people would gather for it, and surround the tree with silk tents of images. Then they would bring a sheep and a cow and they would slaughter it for sacrifice to the tree. And they would ignite a fire by firewood on them (the animals). When the smoke of the sacrifices fill the air, and the condition between them and the sky had gotten blocked, they would fall down into prostration to the tree, and they prostrated to other than Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and they cried and supplicated to it (the tree), to please the tree. And <i>shaytān </i>would come and shake its branches, and he would yell like a child from its trunks, ‘I am pleased with you my slaves, be happy and pleased, they have cooled the eyes. Then they raised their heads from that, and they drank <i>khamr, </i>and they beat the <i>ma`āzif </i>(drums), and they play <i>al-Dastbandh </i>(stringed instrument) throughout the night, then they departed.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">و إنما سمت العجم شهورها بآبانماه و آذرماه و غيرها اشتقاقا من أسماء تلك القرى لقول أهلها بعضهم لبعض هذا عيد قرية كذا حتى إذا كان عيد قريتهم العظمى اجتمع إليها صغيرهم و كبيرهم فضربوا عند الصنوبرة و العين سرادقا من ديباج عليه أنواع الصور و جعلوا له اثني عشر بابا كل باب لأهل قرية منهم فيسجدون للصنوبرة خارجا من السرادق و يقربون لها الذبائح أصناف ما قربوا للشجرة التي في قراهم فيجيء إبليس عند ذلك فيحرك الصنوبرة تحريكا شديدا و يتكلم من جوفها كلاما جهوريا و يعدهم و يمنيهم بأكثر مما وعدتهم و منتهم الشياطين في تلك الشجرات الأخر للبقاء فيرفعون رءوسهم من السجود و بهم من الفرح النشاط ما لا يفيقون و لا يتكلمون من الشرب و العزف فيكونون على ذلك اثني عشر يوما و لياليها بعدد أعيادهم سائر السنة ثم ينصرفون<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The <i>`ajam</i> (Persians) derived the names of their months, Ābān, Ādhar, etc., from those names of the towns. Its people used to say to one another this is the Eid of this such town, until it came to their biggest town’s Eid, and they gathered them, their young, their old, and surrounded the Pine tree and spring and they sewed a silk garments made with pictures upon. And they made twelve (12) doors, every door was for the people of the towns, and they would prostrate to the pine tree, outside the pavilion. And they offered to it sacrifices to the tree for each of their towns. And Iblīs would come to that (tree), and shake the pine tree a lot, and he would talk from inside it aloud, and he would promise them and bless them much more than the (other) Satan promised them in that other remaining tree. Then, they raised their heads from <i>sajdah</i>, and they would black out from the happiness and energy, and they would not wake up. They were not able to speak because of drinking and (listening) to music. They would spend twelve (12) days and nights in Eid for the rest of the year, then they departed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">فلما طال كفرهم بالله عز و جل و عبادتهم غيره بعث الله عز و جل إليهم نبيا من بني إسرائيل من ولد يهودا بن يعقوب فلبث فيهم زمانا طويلا يدعوهم إلى عبادة الله عز و جل و معرفة ربوبيته فلا يتبعونه فلما رأى شدة تماديهم في الغي به و الضلال و تركهم قبول ما دعاهم إليه من الرشد و النجاح و حضر عيد قريتهم العظمى قال يا رب إن عبادك أبوا إلا تكذيبي و الكفر بك و غدوا يعبدون شجرة لا تنفع و لا تضر فأيبس شجرهم أجمع و أرهم قدرتك و سلطانك فأصبح القوم و قد يبس شجرهم كلها فهالهم ذلك و قطع بهم و صاروا فريقين فرقة قالت سحر آلهتكم هذا الرجل الذي يزعم أنه رسول رب السماء و الأرض إليكم ليصرف وجوهكم عن آلهتكم إلى إلهه و فرقة قالت لا بل غضبت آلهتكم حين رأت هذا الرجل يعيبها و يقع فيها و يدعوكم إلى عبادة غيرها فحجبت حسنها و بهاءها لكي تغضبوا لها فتنتصروا منه فاجتمع رأيهم على قتله فاتخذوا أنابيب طوالا من رصاص واسعة الأفواه</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When their <i>kufr </i>(disbelief) in Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> spread, and their worship to other than Him, Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> sent to them a Prophet from the Banī Isrā`īl</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, from the </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">sons</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of Yahūd b. Ya`qūb. He remained with them for a long time calling them to the worship of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and recognizing in His divinity, but they did not obey him. When he saw their great persistence in sin, misguidance and abandoning what they have been calling to from guidance and success, then he attended their biggest town’s Eid, and he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: ‘O Lord, These servants of yours do nothing except deny me and disbeliever in You. They worship a tree that neither benefits them nor harms them, so dry up all of their trees and show them Your power and Your Authority. Then all of their trees dried up, and the people were horrified by that. They were divided and they separated into two groups (<i>farīqayn</i>). (One) Group said, ‘This man, (who) claims that he is a messenger upon you of the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, has bewitched your god, in order to alter your direct from your god to his god!’ (The other) group said, ‘No, rather your gods have become mad, because when they saw this man (expose) its faults and says thing about them, and he calls you to worship other than it. (Because of the gods anger) He has covered up his goodness and beauty in order that they become angry and triumph over him. So they all gathered their views together to kill him. Then they took a long lead pipe and (placed) it at its great opening.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">ثم أرسلوها في قرار العين إلى أعلى الماء واحدة فوق الأخرى مثل البرابخ و نزحوا ما فيها من الماء ثم حفروا في قرارها من الأرض بئرا عميقة ضيقة المدخل و أرسلوا فيها نبيهم و ألقموا فاها صخرة عظيمة ثم أخرجوا الأنابيب من الماء و قالوا نرجو الآن أن ترضى عنا آلهتنا إذا رأت إنا قد قتلنا من كان يقع فيها و يصد عن عبادتها و دفناه تحت كبيرها ليشتفي منه فيعود لنا نورها و نضرتها كما كان فبقوا عامة يومهم يسمعون أنين نبيهم ع و هو يقول سيدي قد ترى ضيق مكاني و شدة كربتي فارحم ضعف ركني و قلة حيلتي و عجل بقبض روحي و لا تؤخر إجابة دعائي حتى مات ع فقال الله تبارك و تعالى لجبرئيل يا جبرئيل أ يظن عبادي هؤلاء الذين غرهم حلمي و أمنوا مكري و عبدوا غيري و قتلوا رسلي أن يقوموا لغضبي أو يخرجوا من سلطاني كيف و أنا المنتقم ممن عصاني و لم يخش عقابي و أني حلفت بعزتي لأجعلنهم عبرة و نكالا للعالمين</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Then they sent it at the bottom of the spring, they (stacked) one unto another like a water pipe. Then they drained the water that was in it, and they dug in the bottom of the earth a deep narrator entrance to the well. Then they threw their prophet in it, and they covered the top of it (the well) with a huge rock, then they took out the pipes from the water. They said, ‘We hope now that our Gods are happy with us, when they will see that we have killed who was talking about it, and keeping us away from its worship, and he have buried him under its big well. And from it they could hear their Prophet moan and he would say, ‘O My master, you see the narrowness of my place, I am in great agony, have mercy on my weakness, not having a way out. Please hurry to take my spirit, and do not delay in answering my <i>du`ā’</i> ‘.’ Then he <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> died. Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(تبارك و تعالى)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to Jibra’īl <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, ‘O Jibra’īl, does my servants think, those who have fooled My Patience (<i>Ḥilm</i>), and (they think) they are secure from My Wrath, and they worship other than Me, and they killed My Messenger. Do they (think) they can face My Anger, or escape from My Dominion? I shall take revenge to those who disobeys Me, and does not fear My punishment. I swear by My Glory, that I will make them an example and an exemplary punishment for the Worlds.’<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">فلم يدعهم و في عيدهم ذلك إلا بريح عاصف شديد الحمرة فتحيروا فيها و ذرعوا منها و تضام بعضهم إلى بعض ثم صارت الأرض من تحتهم حجر كبريت يتوقد و أظلتهم سحابة سوداء مظلمة فانكبت عليهم كالقبة جمرة تتلهب فذابت أبدانهم كما يذوب الرصاص في النار فتعوذ بالله من غضبه و نزول نقمته</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">And they did not call in their Eid except an extremely stormy wind of redness came, and they were confused by it, so they came to one another, then He made the earth from underneath them turn to blazing glowing sulfur, and a black cloud overshadowed them, and dropped a molten dome upon them, like fire over them. Their bodies melted like lead melts in the fire. And we seek refuge in Allāh from His Anger and His Revenge he sends down.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 100, person #45).</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is <b>praised</b> according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 5, person #9).</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 326, person # 887), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 404, person # 618 & al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 265, person # 5413), al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 140, person #16). Ibn Abī `Umayr heard this ḥadīth from Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥamzah, Hishām b. Sālim and Ḥafs b. al-Bakhtarī, which makes this ḥadīth even stronger and more authentic.</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥamzah is <b><i>thiqah</i></b> <b>(trustworth) </b>according to al-Kashī (See: al-Kashī’s <i>Ikhtiyār Ma`arifah al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 406, # 761), al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 152, person #71) and Ibn Dāwud (See: Ibn Dāwud’s <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 286, person # 1246).</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Hishām b. Sālim is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 434, person # 1165) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 152, person #71).</div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> Ḥafṣ b. al-Bakhtarī is according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 134, person # 344) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s <i>al-Khulāṣah</i>, pg. 58, person #3). I found out it was Ḥafs b. al-Bakhtarī because his full name was put in al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh</i>, vol. 4, pg. 42, ḥadīth # 5048.</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī</i>, vol. 7, pg. 202; al-Ṣadūq, <i>Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh</i>, vol. 4, pg. 42, ḥadīth # 5048; al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 10, ch. 3, pg. 58, ḥadīth # 3.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;">al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan (Good)</b>. (See: al-Majlisī’s <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 23, pg. 308). Many other scholars have said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b>. For example, Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Najafī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ </b>in his <i>magnum opus </i>called <i>Jawāhir al-Kalām</i>, vol. 41, pg. 389.</div></div><div id="ftn8"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. al-Hamadānī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Ṣadūq (See: al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, pg. 369) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 19, person # 37).</div></div><div id="ftn9"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a> Refer to Footnote 1.</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> Refer to Footnote2.</div></div><div id="ftn11"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a> `Abd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ, Abū al-Ṣalt al-Harawī is <b><i>thiqah </i>(thiqah) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī’s <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 245, person # 643) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, <i>al-Khulāsah</i>, pg. 117, person # 2). al-Ṭūsī calls Abū al-Ṣalt an <b><i>`Āmī </i>(Sunnī)</b> (See: al-Ṭūsī’s <i>al-Rijāl</i>, pg. 360, person # 5328). al-Khoei contends that Abū al-Ṣalt was not an <i>`Āmī</i>, rather he was a Shī`ah. Either way, his status as a <i>thiqah </i>narrator does not change.</div></div><div id="ftn12"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a> According to other Aḥādīth and many scholars, the Prophet’s name was Ḥan<u>dh</u>alah b. Ṣafwān. (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 14, ch. 13, pg. 155).</div></div><div id="ftn13"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dwellers%20of%20Rass.docx#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>`Ilal al-Sharā’`I</i>, vol. 1, ch. 38, pg. 40-43, ḥadīth # 1; al-Majlisī, <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 14, ch. 13, pg. 148-152, ḥadīth # 1</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ḥillī. <i>al-Khulāṣah al-`Aqwāl</i>. 1st ed. 1 vols. Qum: , Dār al-Dukhā’ir, 1411.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>. 4th. 110 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1362.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najafī, Muḥammad Ḥasan. <i>Jawāhir al-Kalām</i>. 7th ed. 43 vols. Beirut: Dar Ihya al-Turath, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṣadūq. <i>`Ilal al-Sharā’i`</i>. Ed. Muhammad Sadiq Bahr al-`Ulum. 1 vols. Najaf: Maktabah al-Haydariyya, 1385/1966.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>. 2nd. 2 vols in 1 vols. Qum: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1395/1975.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1st. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1415.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">—. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Dāwud, Ibn. <i>al-Rijāl</i>. 1 vols. Tehran: Mu’assasah al-Nashr fī Jāmi`ah Ṭehrān, 1383.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-79997048134493338172012-06-27T12:54:00.004-07:002012-06-27T12:58:40.421-07:00Imam Ali's Knowledge of the Quran<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) ḥadīth</b> on the amount of knowledge Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> had of the Qur’ān. This ḥadīth is found in a much larger ḥadīth. Also this ḥadīth is not only found in Shī`ah books, but it is found all over the Sunnī books as well. I have posted another ḥadīth where Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> says, “Ask me whatever you wish” (Click <a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/2012/02/authority-only-comes-from-ahlul-bayt.html" target="_blank">here</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL"></span>«ما في كتاب الله عز و جل آية إلا و أنا أعرف تفسيرها و في أي مكان نزلت من سهل أو جبل و في أي وقت نزلت من ليل أو نهار و أن هاهنا لعلما جما و أشار إلى صدره و لكن طلابه يسيرة و عن قليل يندمون لو قد يفقدوني»</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said: “There is not an <i>ayah</i> in the Book of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> except that I know its <i>tafsīr</i>, and in whichever place it was revealed, on a plain or a mountain, and in whatever time it was revealed, in the night or the day.’ – Pointing to his chest – ‘here there is abundant knowledge, but the seekers of it are few, and from the few they will regret when they lose me.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Source:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span dir="LTR" style="line-height: 14.25pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;">al-Sadūq, <i>`Ilal al-Sharā`i’</i>, ed. Muḥammad Ṣādiq Bahr al-`Ulūm, 1 vol. (Najaf, Maktabah al-Ḥaydariyyah, 1385), vol. 1, ch. 38, pg. 40</span></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-30919962679824726922012-06-25T14:31:00.001-07:002012-06-27T12:57:46.925-07:00Wudu and Ghusl with a Splint<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I was asked a question, via the Contact Us form of the blog, about doing <i>ghusl</i> or <i>wuḍū’</i> when you have a splint on. This question was asked many times to the Ahl al-Bayt <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span></span></a></b> ḥadīth of their answer. The Arabic word used in the ḥadīth for a splint is <i>al-Jabā’ir</i>, I have quoted Ibn Mundhūr’s <i>Lisān al-`Arab</i>, in the footnote, where he discusses what the word means.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ع عَنِ الْكَسِيرِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَبَائِرُ أَوْ تَكُونُ بِهِ الْجِرَاحَةُ كَيْفَ يَصْنَعُ بِالْوُضُوءِ وَ عِنْدَ غُسْلِ الْجَنَابَةِ وَ عِنْدَ غُسْلِ الْجُمُعَةِ قَالَ «يَغْسِلُ مَا وَصَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْغُسْلُ مِمَّا ظَهَرَ مِمَّا لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ الْجَبَائِرُ وَ يَدَعُ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ مِمَّا لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ غَسْلَهُ وَ لَا يَنْزِعُ الْجَبَائِرَ وَ لَا يَعْبَثُ بِجِرَاحَتِهِ»<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
From `Abd al-Rahmān b. al-Ḥajjāj said, I asked Abā al-Ḥasan <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> about broken (limb) and he (places) upon it a <i>jabā’ir<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span></span></a></i>or he does on it an wound, how can he perform <i>wudū’</i>, <i>ghusl al-Janābah</i>, or <i>ghusl al-Jumu`ah</i>. He <span dir="RTL"></span><i><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>: “He washes what reaches him of which is apparent, and he does not (wash what) the <i>jabā’ir </i>is upon, and he should leave what is apart from that of which he is not able to wash, and he should not remove the <i>jabā’ir</i>, and he should not play with his injury”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī says this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> (See: al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 3, pg. 53)</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> According to Arabic dictionaries, <i>al-Jabā’ir</i> is like a cast or splint. Ibn Mundhūr in his famous lexicon dictionary says about <i>al-Jabā’ir </i>(<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">الْجَبَائِرُ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>):<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">العيدان</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">التي</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">تشدّها</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">على</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">العظم</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">لتَجْبُرَه</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">بها</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">على</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">استواء</span><br />
The stick which tightens on the bone to fix him by normalizing/leveling it.<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">الذي</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">يجبر</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">العظام</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">المكسورة</span><o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;">Which fixes broken bones<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"> (See: Ibn Mundhūr, <i>Lisān al-`Arab</i>, vol. 4, pg. 155)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Wudu%20and%20Ghusl%20with%20a%20Bandage%20or%20Cast.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 1, ch. 16, pg. 362</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">Mundhūr, Ibn. <i>Lisān al-`Arab</i>. Qum: Nashr Adab al-Hawzah, 1405.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-28439799266485344492012-06-16T16:13:00.003-07:002012-06-16T18:22:37.520-07:00Tasbeeh with Dirt of Imam Hussain<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> ḥadīth that proves glorifying with prayer beads or <i>tasbeeḥ</i> (<i>misbaḥah</i>), also with the dirt of the grave of al-Ḥussayn <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. Not only does this prove it, it shows the great merit of doing <i>tashbeeḥ </i>with it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have posted a </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ḥadīth that shows the Imam </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(عليه السلام)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> doing </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">tasbeeḥ</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">with his fingers. Click here: </span><a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/2011/06/taqibat-and-dua.html">http://www.revivingalislam.com/2011/06/taqibat-and-dua.html</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Many scholars have authenticated this ḥadīth, from al-Majlisī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a>, Abū al-Qāsim al-Qummī (d. 1232)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a>, Muḥsin al-Hakīm (d. 1390)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> and Āṣif al-Muḥsinī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a>, and many more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;">مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ قَالَ </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الْفَقِيهِ ع أَسْأَلُهُ هَلْ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يُسَبِّحَ الرَّجُلُ بِطِينِ الْقَبْرِ وَ هَلْ فِيهِ فَضْلٌ فَأَجَابَ وَ قَرَأْتُ التَّوْقِيعَ وَ مِنْهُ نَسَخْتُ تُسَبِّحُ بِهِ فَمَا فِي شَيْءٍ مِنَ السُّبَحِ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ وَ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ أَنَّ الْمُسَبِّحَ يَنْسَى التَّسْبِيحَ وَ يُدِيرُ السُّبْحَةَ فَيُكْتَبُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ التَّسْبِيحُ</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (al-Ṭūsī) by his <i>isnād<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></b></span></span></a></i> from Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Dawūd<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> from his father<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> from <i> </i>Muḥammad b. `Abd Allāh b. Ja`far al-Himyarī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> said:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">I wrote to al-Faqīh <a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and I asked him, ‘Is it permissible for a man to have a <i>tasbeeh</i> with the mud/sand of the grave of al-Ḥussayn? And is there any merit (<i>fadl)</i> in it?’<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">And he answered, I read in his handwriting from his manuscript:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">“Glorify with it, for nothing from the glorification is more meritorious <i>tasbeeh</i> than it. And from its merits is if the glorifier forgets the glorification (<i>tasbeeh</i>), and he rotates the <i>tasbeeh</i>, for him it will be written that he did <i>tasbeeh</i> (glorification).”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>, vol. 9, pg. 188</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Abū al-Qāsim al-Qummī, <i>Manāhij al-Aḥkam</i>, pg. 345; Abū al-Qāsim al-Qummī, <i>Ghanā’im al-Ayyām</i>, vol. 2, pg. 628</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Muḥsin al-Hakīm, <i>Mustamsak al-`Urwah al-Wuthqa</i>, vol. 5, pg. 511</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Āṣif al-Muḥsinī, <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 2, pg. 480</div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> The <i>isnaad</i> or <i>tarīq</i> from al-Ṭūsī to Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Dawūd is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic). </b></div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> He is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 384-385, person # 1045)</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. Dawūd b. `Alī al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah</i></b> <b>(trustworth)</b> according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 70, person # 87)</div></div><div id="ftn8"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> He is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworthy) </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 354-355, person # 949)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn9"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a> al-Faqīh means Imām Mahdī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, this same ḥadīth is in al-Tabarasī’s <i>al-Ihtijāj</i> (See: al-Ṭabarsī, <i>al-Ihtijāj</i>, vol. 2, pg. 489)</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Tasbeeh%20with%20Dirt%20of%20Karbala.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṭūsī, <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>, vol. 6, ch. 22, pg. 75-76, ḥadīth # 17<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><w:sdt docparttype="Bibliographies" docpartunique="t" id="204430356" sdtdocpart="t"> </w:sdt></div><h1><span style="color: windowtext;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Hakīm, Muḥsin. </span><i style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Mustamsak al-`Urwah al-Wuthqa</i><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">. 1. 14 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah Dār al-Tafsīr, 1416.</span></div><w:sdt bibliography="t" id="111145805"></w:sdt><br />
<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;"><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Milādh al-Akhyār</i>. 1st. 16 vols. Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Muḥsinī, `Āṣif. <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>. 2nd. 2 vols. Beirut: Mu’assasah al-`Ārif lil-Maṭbū`āt, 1426/2005.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Najāshī. <i>Rijāl</i>. Ed. Musa al-Shabiri al-Zanjani. 5. 1 vols. Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1416.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Qummī, Abū al-Qāsim. <i>Ghanā’im al-Ayyām</i>. 2 vols. n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">—. <i>Manāhij al-Aḥkam</i>. 1 vols. n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Ṭabarsī. <i>al-Ihtijāj</i>. 2 vols in 1 vols. Mashhad: Nashr al-Murtada, Mashhad, 1403, 1403.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">al-Ṭūsī. <i>al-Fihrist</i>. Najaf: al-Maktabah al-Raḍawiyyah, n.d.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">—. <i>Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām</i>. 4th. 10 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1407.</div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-25473074786360426272012-06-03T16:40:00.002-07:002012-06-03T21:22:55.152-07:00Three Worst of Creations<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here is a <b>Ḥasan</b> <b>(Good)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span></span></a></b> or <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span></span></a></b> ḥadīth which shows us three prideful things for a <i>mu’min </i>(believer), and the three worst or most evil of creations which afflicted the best of creations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The <i>sanad</i> seems like it only starts with al-Ḥasan b. al-Maḥbūb, but this is one of the truncated <i>asānīd </i>(pl. of <i>sanad</i>) that al-Kulaynī employs in his <i>al-Kāfī</i>, especially in the <i>al-Rawḍah, </i>volume 8 of <i>al-Kāfī</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have combined the <i>sanad</i> for you, in order for you to see the full chain of narrators.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">علي بن إبراهيم عن أبيه عن ابن محبوب عن عبد الله بن سنان</span> قَالَ</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"> سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ ثَلَاثٌ هُنَّ فَخْرُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَ زَيْنُهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ الصَّلَاةُ فِي آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ وَ يَأْسُهُ مِمَّا فِي أَيْدِي النَّاسِ وَ وَلَايَتُهُ الْإِمَامَ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span>`Alī b. Ibrāhīm from his father from al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb from `Abd Allāh b. Sinān said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> say, ‘Three (things) are prideful for the <i>mu’min</i> and his adornment in this world and the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Salāh at the end of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">His despairing of which is in the hands of the people<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">His <i>Wilāyah</i> of the Imām from family of Muḥammad <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)<br />
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</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">قَالَ وَ ثَلَاثَةٌ هُمْ شِرَارُ الْخَلْقِ ابْتُلِيَ بِهِمْ خِيَارُ الْخَلْقِ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ قَاتَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَادَاهُ وَ مُعَاوِيَةُ قَاتَلَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ عَادَاهُ وَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ قَاتَلَ الْحُسَيْنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ عَادَاهُ حَتَّى قَتَلَهُ<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said, ‘Three are the worst of creations, which afflicted the best of the creations,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Abū Sufyān, he fought the Messenger of Allāh and hated him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mu`āwiyah, he fought `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and hated him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yazīd b. Mu`āwiyah, may Allāh curse him, he fought al-Ḥusayn b. `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and hated him until he killed him <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><w:sdt docparttype="Bibliographies" docpartunique="t" id="1056955275" sdtdocpart="t"> </w:sdt><br />
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<div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī said this ḥadīth is <b>Ḥasan (Good) </b>(See: al-Majlisī, <i>Mir’āt al-`Uqūl</i>, vol. 26, pg. 178)</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Hādī al-Najafī said this ḥadīth has a <b>Ṣaḥīḥ Isnād </b>(See: Hādī al-Najafī, <i>Mawsū`ah Aḥādīth Ahl al-Bayt</i>, vol. 4, pg. 445, ḥadīth # 5115; vol. 5, pg. 305, ḥadīth # 6058; vol. 8, pg. 333, ḥadīth # 10164)</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Three%20Worst%20of%20Creations.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Kulaynī, <i>al-Kāfī,</i> vol. 8, pg. 234, ḥadīth # 311</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Kulaynī. <i>al-Kāfī</i>. Ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī. 3rd. 8 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1388.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Majlisī. <i>Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl</i>. 26 vols. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBibliography" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">al-Najafī, Hādī. <i>Mawsū`ah Aḥādīth Ahl al-Bayt</i>. 1st. 12 vols. Beirut: Dār Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1423/2002.<o:p></o:p></div></div></div>Nader Zaverihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550069168488631827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962955340723370670.post-82676504576754454692012-05-31T15:57:00.007-07:002012-06-02T02:50:01.164-07:00Dhul Qarnayn<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I was asked a question via the <a href="http://www.revivingalislam.com/p/contact-us_7469.html" target="_blank">Contact Us</a> form of the blog, about Dhu’l Qarnayn and his identity. Here is the <b>Ṣaḥīḥ</b> (Authentic) ḥadīth we have detailing who was Dhu’l Qarnayn. This ḥadīth is also supported by other <b>Ṣaḥīḥ</b> aḥādīth we have that states that both al-Khiḍr and Dhu’l Qarnayn were not prophets, but they were righteous servants of Allāh.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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This post is not about the identity of Dhu'l Qarnayn, because it is not stated in authentic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ḥadīth who he is, therefore I will not resort to <i><u>dh</u>ann</i> (speculation) as some scholars have done.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Inshā’Allāh, I will make a lengthy article responding to those people who claim that al-Khiḍr was a prophet of Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This ḥadīth is narrated in `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh al-Qummī’s<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a> </span></span></span>(al-Ṣadūq’s father) book <i>al-Imāmah wa al-Tabṣirah<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span></span></a></i>, al-Ṣadūq’s <i>Kamāl (</i>or<i>, Ikmāl</i>) al-Dīn<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> and al-Rawāndī’s <i>Qasas al-Anbiyā’<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></b></span></span></a></i>, with the same chain of narrators. This same ḥadīth is also narrated in al-`Ayyāshī’s <i>Tafsīr</i>, with a truncated chain from Abī Baṣīr<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">سعد بن عبد الله ، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى ، عن علي بن النعمان ، عن هارون بن خارجة ، عن أبي بصير ، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال : إن ذا القرنين لم يكن نبيا ، ولكنه كان عبدا صالحا أحب الله فأحبه الله ، وناصح لله فناصحه الله ، أمر قومه بتقوى الله ، فضربوه على قرنه ، فغاب عنهم زمانا ، ثم رجع إليهم ، فضربوه على قرنه الآخر ، وفيكم من هو على سنته</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> narrated from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from `Alī b. al-Nu`mān</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Hārūn b. Khārijah</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from Abī Baṣīr</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">from Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, “</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Dhu’l Qarnayn was not a prophet, but he was a righteous slave, he loved Allāh, and Allāh loved him. He was an advis</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">er of</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Allāh, and Allāh advised him. He commanded his people to <i>taqwa</i> of Allāh, and they hit him on the (side) of his head, and he disappeared from them for a time, then he returned to them and they hit him on his other (side) of his head, and there is among you who is upon his <i>sunnah </i>(tradition)</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">”</span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">`Āṣif al-Muḥsinī has said this ḥadīth is <b>Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)</b> in his <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></b></span></span></a></i>, he also says that there is a ḥadīth that alludes to Dhu’l Qarnayn being a prophet of Allāh<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></a>, but it is <b>da`īf (weak)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></b></span></span></a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a> He is <b><i>thiqah </i>(trustworth)</b> according to al-Najāshī, al-Tūsī’s <i>Rijāl</i> and <i>al-Fihrist</i> (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 261, person # 648; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 432, person # 6191 (in book); al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist</i>, pg. 273, person # 393)</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh, <i>al-Imāmah wa al-Tabṣirah</i>, Ch. on Ghaybah, pg. 121, ḥadīth # 116</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> al-Ṣadūq, <i>Kamāl al-Dīn</i>, vol. 2, ch. 38, section on Dhu’l Qarnayn, pg. 393, ḥadīth # 1, with a chain from his father:</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;">al-Ṣadūq – from his father – Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh – Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa -- `Alī b. al-Nu`mān – Hārūn b. Khārijah – Abī Baṣīr – Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span></div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rawāndī, <i>Qaṣaṣ al-Anbiyā’</i>, pg. 120 with his chain from al-Rawāndī to al-Ṣadūq</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;">Al-Adīb Abū `Abd Allāh al-Ḥussayn al-Mu’addab al-Qummī – Ja`far al-Dawraysī – his father – al-Ṣadūq – from his father – Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh – Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa -- `Alī b. al-Nu`mān – Hārūn b. Khārijah – Abī Baṣīr – Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></div></div><div id="ftn5"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> al-`Ayyāshī, <i>Tafsīr</i>, vol. 2, pg. 339-340, ḥadīth # 72</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"> From Abī Baṣīr – Abī Ja`far <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span></div></div><div id="ftn6"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh b. al-`Asharī al-Qummī is <b><i>thiqah </i></b>according to al-Najāshi al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 178, person # 467; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Rijāl, </i>pg. 427, person # 6141; al-Ṭūsī, <i>al-Fihrist, </i>pg. 75, person # 306)</div></div><div id="ftn7"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Aḥmad b. 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Khārijah Kūfī is <b><i>thiqah</i> </b>according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, <i>Rijāl</i>, pg. 437, person # 1176)</div></div><div id="ftn10"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> Abū Baṣīr here could be either Yaḥya b. Abī al-Qāsim al-Asadī or Layth b. al-Bakhtarī al-Murādī, it wouldn’t matter since both of them are <b><i>thiqah</i></b>, al-Khoei discusses this in depth in his <i>Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth</i> (See: al-Khoei, <i>Mu`jam Rijāl al-Hadīth</i>, vol. 22, pg. 49-66, person # 13988)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ftn11"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a> `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh, <i>al-Imāmah wa al-Tabṣirah</i>, Ch. on Ghaybah, pg. 121, ḥadīth # 116 </div></div><div id="ftn12"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a> `Āṣif al-Muḥsinī, <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 1, pg. 276</div></div><div id="ftn13"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī, <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 12, ch. 8, pg. 181, ḥadīth # 9, originally quoting from al-Ṣadūq’s <i>al-Khiṣāl, </i>vol. 1, ch. 4, pg. 248, ḥadīth # 110</div></div><div id="ftn14"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/Dhu'l%20Qarnayn.docx#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></a> al-Muḥsinī, <i>Mashra`ah Bihār al-Anwār</i>, vol. 1, pg. 275</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is a
famous ḥadīth of the Prophet </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(صلى
الله عليه وآله وسلم)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><span dir="LTR"></span> about Fāṭimah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليها السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> in which he says, “Whoever angers Fāṭimah has angered me”.
Recently, Sunnīs have attempted to take out narrations from the Shī`ah books
which alludes to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
angering Fāṭimah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليها
السلام)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;">There are two narrations that allude to this, both of the narrations are
from al-Ṣadūq’s <i>`Ilal al-Sharā’i`</i>. These narrations are fairly lengthy,
so I will only translate the pertinent portions of the <i>matn</i> (content of
the ḥadīth), and then I will analyze each ḥadīth individually. I will not only
analyze each ḥadīth’s <i>sanad</i> via Shī`ah books of <i>Rijāl</i>, but I will
also delve into the Sunnī books of <i>Rijāl </i>for many of the narrators, in
order to get a holistic perspective on certain narrators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: FA;">After my
analysis, inshā’Allāh, you will see that these narrations are a pure <b>fabrication</b>
against Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه
السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, in order to lower his
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form of the blog regarding the famous phrase attributed to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “I am the dot which is under the bā’”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Have you ever heard or read Imam Ali said:<br />
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What is the source to this saying? And is this saying by Imam Ali authentic?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is <b><u>not</u></b> a ḥadīth of Imām `Alī
<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه
السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, rather this is a
saying of Sūfīs that has been attributed to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. This saying is <b><u>not</u></b> found in our classical books
of Islām, either Sunnī or Shī`ah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When looking through the books of both the
Shī`ah and Sunnī, you actually find this phrase “I am the dot which is under
the Bā’”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a>
being attributed to another person and not Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. The earliest book that I could find that has this phrase is a
book by the famous Sūfī, al-Ghazālī (b.450/1058-d.505/1111)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a>.
In his book <i>Iḥyā’ `Ulūm al-Dīn </i>(Rebirth of the Sciences of Religion),
which is said to be authored when he was influenced by the Sūfīs, he states:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;">وجاء رجل إلى الشبلي رحمه الله فقال له ما أنت وكان هذا
دأبه وعادته فقال أنا النقطة التي تحت الباء</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A man came to
al-Shiblī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a>, may Allāh have mercy on
him, and he said to him, ‘Who are you?’ and this was his habit and custom. So
he (al-Shiblī) said: ‘I am the dot (<i>nuqṭah</i>) which is under the bā’’<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The next time that this phrase<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a>
has been seen is by the extremist Sūfī, Ibn `Arabī (b.558/1164-d.638/1240), he
is commonly known as Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn `Arabī. Ibn `Arabī in his <i>al-Fatūḥāt
al-Makiyyah</i>, his <i>magnum opus</i>, has related the same story that
al-Ghazālī has mentioned.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is by the Sūfī Sunnī scholar Muḥammad b. Talḥah al-Shāfi`ī’s (b. 582/1186-d.652/1254)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a>
book called <i>al-Durr al-Man<u>dh</u>am fī al-Surr al-A`<u>dh</u>am<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></b></span></span></a></i>.
He does <b><u>not</u></b> give a chain of narrators of this saying, nor does he
give a source to where he got this from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He is a Sunnī scholar with Sūfī leanings. This
can be easily seen when reading through his works. al-Dhahabī (b. 673-d. 748)
in his <i>Tārīkh al-Islām </i> says, “And
he entered in things from delirium and misguidance, and he acted on the circles<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a>,
and claimed that he derived from it, knowledge of the unseen (<i>al-ghayb</i>)
and knowledge of the Hour (Day of Judgment)”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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al-Nabulā’</i>, “but he entered into the delirium of the knowledge of the letters
(<i>`ilm al-hurūf</i>)”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ibn Kathīr in his <i>Ṭabaqāt al-Fuquhā’ al-Shāfi`īn
</i>says, “And it is attributed that he occupied himself with the knowledge of
the letters and patrimony, and that he would derive from that things from the
unseen. And some say: ‘That he returned from that’. And Allāh Knows best.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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al-A`dham</i><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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al-Dhahabī and Ibn Kathīr was talking about when they said “he occupied himself
with the knowledge of the letters”. Throughout the book, he goes on-and-on
about the different letters in the Qur’ān and what they mean. He even tries to
do <i>tafsīr</i> (commentary) on the <i>hurūf al-Muqaṭi`ah<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></b></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This book is still extant, and an old written
manuscript of this book has been uploaded by Kind Saud University. In this old
manuscript of Ibn Ṭalḥah’s <i>al-Durr al-Man<u>dh</u>am</i>, you can see the
famous saying that is attributed to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “I am the dot which is under the bā’”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;">و
اعلم أن جميع أسرار الله تعالى في الكتب السماوية و جميع أسرار الكتب السماوية في
القرآن ، وجميع ما في القرآن في الفاتحة ، وجميع ما في الفاتحة في بسم الله، وجميع
ما في بسم الله في باء بسم الله، وجميع ما في باء بسم الله في النقطة التي هي تحت
الباء . قال الإمام علي : أنا النقطة التي تحت الباء</span><span style="font-family: 'Traditional Arabic', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">And know that all of
Allāh’s <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(تعالى)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> secrets are in the heavenly books, and all
of the secrets of the heavenly books are in the Qur’ān. And all of which is in
the Qur’ān is in al-Fātiḥah, and all of which is in al-Fātiḥah is in <i>bismillah</i>,
and all of which is in <i>bismillah</i> is in the bā’ of <i>bismillah</i>, and
all of which is in the bā’ in <i>bismillah</i> is the dot (<i>nuqṭah</i>) which
is under the bā’. Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is the first time in history that this
phrase “I am the dot which is under the ba” has been attributed to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. As you can see, he <b>never</b> gives the
source or the chain of narrators to allow us to see how he got this phrase.
This is not uncommon when reading through this book as he <b>never</b> gives
the source or complete chain of narrators to the ḥadīth he mentions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is from the Sūfī<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></a>
Shī`ah scholar Rajab al-Bursī (d. 813), who is also into the knowledge of the
letters (<i>`ilm al-Hurūf</i>)<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[15]</span></span></span></a>,
in his <i>Mashāriq al-Anwār</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[16]</span></span></span></a> Rajab
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And al-Majlisī has said that he does not rely on what he puts in his book,
unless it is in other authentic books.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span></span></a>
Since this phrase is not added in al-Majlisī’s <i>Bihār al-Anwār</i>, it is
safe to assume that al-Majlisī thought that this phrase was <b>da`īf (weak)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">al-Bursī does <b><u>not</u></b> also give a source, nor does he give a chain of narrators to this phrase.</span></div>
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al-Anwār</i>. For example, Sulaymān b. Ibrāhīm al-Qundūzī (d. 1294) quotes this
phrase from <i>al-Durr al-Man<u>dh</u>am</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[19]</span></span></span></a>
Or, al-Sayyid al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī (d. 1411) quotes this phrase attributed to
Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه
السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> from <i>al-Durr al-Man<u>dh</u>am</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[20]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In conclusion, this phrase is <b>fabricated</b>
and misattributed to Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.
This is not so surprising, since Sūfīs have been known to attribute false
things to our A’immah <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليهم السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>,
especially Imām `Alī <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span>(عليه السلام)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">_________________________<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nader Zaveri<br />
Jamadi’ al-Awwal 29, 1433<br />
April 21, 2012</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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النقطة التي تحت الباء</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span> – Tr. “I am the dot which is under
the bā’”</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a>
Abū Ḥāmid, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ghazālī
(450/1058-505/1111), he is known as the <i>mujaddid </i>(reviver) of the 5<sup>th</sup>
century. It is stated that he has authored about 457 books. al-Ghazālī most
famous books, which he has authored during his Sūfī days, is <i>Iḥyā’ `Ulūm
al-Dīn </i>(Rebirth of the Sciences of Religion). </div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> This
could be a reference to the Sūfī Abū Bakr al-Shiblī (b. 247/861). It is stated
that he adhered to the Sūfī way, but was of the Mālikī <i>madhhab</i>.</div>
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al-Ghazālī, <i>Iḥyā’ `Ulūm al-Dīn</i>, 4 vols., (Beirut: Dār al-Ma`rifah), vol.
3, pg. 342</div>
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Ibn `Arabī, <i>al-Fatūḥāt al-Makiyyah</i>, 4 vols., (Beirut: Dār al-Ṣādir),
vol. 1, pg. 102</div>
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Abū Sālim, Muḥammad b. Ṭalḥah b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan, known as Kamāl al-Dīn,
al-Shāfi`ī. He died in the city of Aleppo (<i>Ḥalab</i>) on the 27<sup>th</sup>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">الدر</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">المنظم</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">في</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">السر</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">الأعظم</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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al-Dhahabī is most likely alluding to Ibn Ṭalḥah’s circular patterns with
writings in them, which can be seen through his book <i>al-Durr al-Man<u>dh</u>am</i></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a>
al-Dhahabī, <i>Tārīkh al-Islām</i>, ed. `Umar `Abd al-Salām Tudmirī, (Beirut:
Dār al-Kitāb al-`Arabī, 1<sup>st</sup> ed., 1407), vol. 11, pg. 44-45 (ARABIC TEXT):<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">وقد دخل في شيءٍ من الهَذَيَان والضّلال ، وعمل
دائرةً وادّعى أنّه يستخرج منْها علِم الغيب وعلْم السّاعة</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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al-Dhahabī, <i>Siyar A`lām al-Nabulā’</i>, 25 vols., ed. Shu`ayb Aranā’ūt,
(Mu’assasah al-Risālah, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., 1405), vol. 23, pg. 293, person #
199</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a>
Ibn Kathīr, <i>Ṭabaqāt al-Fuquhā’ al-Shāfī`īn</i>, 2 vols, 2004, Tenth Class of
Shāfi`ī Scholars (ARABIC TEXT)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">وقد نسب إلى الاشتغال بعلم الحروف والأوقاف ، وأنه يستخرج من ذلك أشياء من المغيبات ، وقيل : إنه رجع عنه ، فالله أعلم</span></div>
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Lit. ‘The Segmented Letters’ – These are the letters that Allāh <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span>(سبحانه و تعالى)</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> has put in the beginning of some sūrahs (i.e. Alif-Lam-Mīm;
Kaf-Ha-Ya-`Ayn-Sād)</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></a> Muḥsin
al-Amīn (d. 1371) calls Rajab al-Bursī a Sūfī. (See: Muḥsin al-Amīn, <i>A`yān
al-Shī`ah, </i>(Beirut: Dār al-Tā`rif), vol. 6, pg. 465)</div>
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Muhsin al-Amīn says that Rajab al-Bursī is into <i>`ilm al-Hurūf</i> and that it
is nothing but a delusion, assumption and deceptive (See: <i>ibid</i>, pg. 466)</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[16]</span></span></span></a> al-Bursī,
<i>Mashāriq al-Anwār</i>, ed. al-Sayyid `Alī Āshūr, (Beirut: Mu’assasah
al-`Alamī lil-Maṭbū`āt, 1<sup>st</sup> ed., 1419), pg. 29</div>
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al-`Āmulī, <i>Amal al-Āmul</i>, vol. 2, pg. 117, person # 329</div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">و في كتابه إفراط و
ربما نسب إلى الغلو</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span>“And
in his book is excessiveness and it maybe that he is linked to <i>ghuluww</i>”</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Nader%20Zaveri/Documents/I%20am%20the%20Dot%20under%20the%20Ba.docx#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span></span></a> al-Majlisī,
<i>Biḥār al-Anwār</i>, (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4<sup>th</sup> ed.,
1362) vol. 1, pg. 10 (ARABIC TEXT):</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">و لا أعتمد على ما يتفرد بنقله لاشتمال كتابيه على ما يوهم الخبط و الخلط و الارتفاع و إنما أخرجنا منهما ما يوافق الأخبار المأخوذة من الأصول المعتبرة</span></div>
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“And I do not
rely on what he includes in his book alone, and what is mislead, mixture, wrong and <i>ghuluww</i>.
I only narrate from it what is agreed upon narrations taken from authentic
fundamental (sources)”</div>
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al-Qundūzī, <i>Yanābī` al-Muwaddah</i>, 3 vols., (Beirut: Mu’assasah al-`Alamī
lil-Maṭbū`āt, 1<sup>st</sup> ed., 1418), vol. 1, pg. 81-82</div>
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al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, <i>Sharḥ Iḥqāq al-Haqq</i>, 33 vols., (Qum: Maktabah
Mar`ashī al-Najafī), vol. 7, pg. 208</div>
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