Category: Hadith Exegesis

  • The Sto­ry of The Goddesses

    The Sto­ry of The Goddesses

    The emigrants resided in Abyssinia three months during which ‘Umar ibn al Khattab converted to Islam. In their exile, they heard that upon ‘Umar’s conversion the Quraysh had stopped their persecution of Muhammad and his followers. According to one report a number of them had returned to Makkah, according to another, all. On reaching Makkah…

  • Sto­ry of The Cranes or ​“Satan­ic Verses”

    Ibn Sa‘d (d. 230) in his al-Tabaqat al-Kubra (reprint Beirut : Dar Sadir), vol. 1 said : [p. 205] Muham­mad ibn ​‘Umar(*) nar­rat­ed to us : (1) Yunus ibn Muham­mad ibn Fadala al-Zafari nar­rat­ed to me : From his father who said : (2) From Kathir ibn Zayd : From al-Mut­tal­ib ibn ​‘Abd Allah ibn Hantab who said : [(*) Muham­mad ibn ​‘Umar al-Waqi­di (d. 207),…

  • “Those Are The High Fly­ing Cranes”

    Ever since the pub­li­ca­tion by Viking/​Penguin in the sum­mer of 1998 of The Satan­ic Vers­es, by Salman Rushdie, inter­est in the ori­gin of those so-called ​“Satan­ic Vers­es” was renewed. That episode, which was repeat­ed by a good num­ber of Mus­lim writ­ers, his­to­ri­ans and Qur’an­ic com­men­ta­tors (some accept­ing it, some reject­ing it, and yet, some oth­ers mod­i­fy­ing…

  • Those Are Their High-Fly­ing Lies Indeed !

    The knowl­edge­able per­son may ques­tion : why raise an issue that have been dis­cussed and put to rest by both Mus­lim and non-Mus­lim schol­ars count­less times ? Well, first­ly, the issue of the so-called ​“Satan­ic Vers­es“As the tra­di­tion of defama­tion against Islam demon­strates, it could only have been the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies who fash­ioned the term ​‘Satan­ic vers­es’,…

  • Nurs­ing of Adults and Per­vert­ed Mis­sion­ary Mentality

    Nurs­ing of Adults and Per­vert­ed Mis­sion­ary Mentality

    In accor­dance with clas­si­cal mis­sion­ary habits, the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary Sam Shamoun — who is noto­ri­ous for his per­vert­ed and filthy mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions — has tak­en the event of Sahla bint Suhail nurs­ing an adult boy, Sal­im the ally of Abu Huza­ifah, as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to assault Islam by call­ing it ​“shame­ful and dis­gust­ing to say the least”. In this paper,…

  • Are Women Equal to Dogs and Donkeys ?

    Are Women Equal to Dogs and Donkeys ?

    Recent­ly a Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary by the name of ​“Lazarus” pub­lished the results of an e‑mail dia­logue with a mis­lead­ing title of ​“Is Islam Women-Friend­ly ?”. A pletho­ra of wild imag­i­na­tion and false inter­pre­ta­tions form the nuclei mate­r­i­al for the above ​“dia­logue”. Most of what was addressed have been dealt with before. How­ev­er, what we are con­cerned with here is…