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Fiqh of Travel [part 3]
Whenever the prophet would move from place to another, whenever there was such a change in the situation (tahawwal) then this would have a Dua with it also.
As for the Safar there are two main hadeeth:
1) Ibn Umar’s report in Muslim
2) Ali’s hadeeth reported in at-Tirmidhi
1) [...]
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The Fiqh of Travel – part 7
The differences between shortening the prayer (Qasr) and combining (Jam’a) is essentail in understanding the different rulings related to them both.
Imam An-Nawawi (May Allah have mercy upon him) reported that Imam Al-Gazali (May Allah have mercy upon [...]
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Fiqh of Traveling [part 5 & 6]
What constitutes travel?
The scholars differed with regards to defining what type of travel brings about the concession to shorten ones prayer and to break the fast.
1) Traveling a distance of four Burd which is ~48miles (88.7km) – Ahmed, ash-Shafi’ee and Malik (May Allah have mercy on [...]
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Fiqh of Travel [part 4]
Etiquette of the return from a journey:
1) From the hadith of Ibn Umar we learn that the Prophet (SAW) would say on returning from a journey “ aaeeboon, taaeeboon, aaabidoon, wa lirabbina hamidoon”
2) The Prophet (SAW) also advised that someone returning should not go back to this family [...]
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Whenever the prophet would move from place to another, whenever there was such a change in the situation (tahawwal) then this would have a Dua with it also.
As for the Safar there are two main hadeeth:
1) Ibn Umar’s report in Muslim
2) Ali’s hadeeth reported in at-Tirmidhi
1) Ibn Umer reported (in Muslim) a [...]
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Last time we spoke about the ettiquettes of Safar (travel – Arabic terminology and meaning apply)
Etiquettes are:
Before Travel like
Praying Istikhara
To do Istishaara (shura – consultation)
i. With those of similar experience
ii. And those who have been to that place
We discussed to start [...]
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The Two Eids of Islam [part 2]
On ‘Eid the prophet (sallallahu alayhi wassalam) would proceed to the Musallah via one route and to return via another. There are many wisdoms behind the prophet (sallallahu alayhi wassalam) practicing this Sunnah; as Ibn Hajar mentioned approximately twenty!
Al-Haafiz said:
The scholars differed greatly as to the [...]
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Yawmul Jumuah
One of the greatest virtues of yawmul Jumuah is that it contains the hour (time period) of accepted supplication, during which if a Muslim slave invokes Allah fro anything, then Allah will grant it to him or her. The wisdom behind this virtue is to encourage and motivate the believers to increase [...]
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The Two Eids of Islam
‘Eid (festival) is the name given to something which returns (ya’ood), and is used to describe gatherings which happenperiodicallyeg on a yearly, monthly , weekly basis, etc. So an ‘eid includes a number of things, such as a day which comes regularly, e.g., ‘Eid al-Fitr and Friday; gatherings on that [...]
