Tag: Ibn Kathir

  • The Expulsion of Banu al-Qurayzah

    Excerpted from Madinan Society At the Time of the Prophet, International Islamic Publishing House & IIIT, 1991 The date of the campaign The action against Banu Qurayzah took place at the end of Dhu al Qa’dah and the beginning of Dhu al Hijjah in the fifth yearIbn Sa’d, al Tabaqat, 3/74; Ibn Hisham, al Sirah,…

  • “Six or Eight Days of Creation” Revisited: A Collection of Major Commentaries on Qur’an, 41:10

    We have noted in our earlier rebuttal to a Christian missionary fantasy that A. Yusuf Ali had alluded to the commentaries of the major commentators for his explanation of Qur’?n, 41:10. Unfortunately, Yusuf Ali did not cite the precise quotations of the Commentators that he was referring to. Here, we would like to fill in…

  • Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey and Ascension to Heaven

    From Muhammad Asad’s commentary, The Message of The Qur’an Surah 17 (Al-Isra’), verse 1 reads as: “Limitless in His glory is He who transported His servant by night from the Inviolable House of worship [at Mecca] to the Remote House of Worship [at Jerusalem] — the environs of which We had blessed — so that…