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The Status of the Companions and the Importance of Loving Them
The Companions’ virtue in the Qur’an and authentic hadith, with six stories from their lives narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim, from the library’s own texts.
The researcher · 6 min read
AkhlaqThe researcher's article
Security as a Divine Equation and a Societal Responsibility
The Qur’anic and hadith evidence on security: its conditions with God, and the individual’s and society’s duty to preserve it.
The researcher · 5 min read
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Definition of Naṣb (Accusative case) in Arabic Grammar
Naṣb, in grammarians' terminology, is the case marked by fatḥa (or its substitutes), typically found on the object and other accusative complements.
Bayan · 1 min read
SeerahThe researcher's article
The Most Famous Hadith Narrators in the Prophet’s Era: The Prolific Companions
The Companions who narrated the most hadith — Abu Hurayra, Ibn Umar, Anas, Aisha, Ibn Abbas, Jabir and Abu Sa‘id — in order of death, with their lives, best-known stories and hadith from the two Sahihs, from the library’s own texts.
The researcher · 15 min read
HadithThe researcher's article
The Most Famous Mudallisin in Hadith Transmission: Tadlis in the Dictionaries, Its Reasons, and the Ranks of Mudallisin
What tadlis means in ten Arabic dictionaries and in the hadith sciences, why narrators practised it, the best-known mudallisin by Ibn Hajar's ranks, those who abandoned it, and the ruling on their reports — from the library's own texts.
The researcher · 8 min read
SeerahThe researcher's article
The Most Famous Hadith Narrators After the Prophet’s Death: From the Tabi‘un to the Compilers
Eleven narrators after the Companions — from ‘Urwa and al-Hasan al-Basri to Malik, Ahmad, al-Bukhari and Muslim — in order of death, with why each became famous, their stories and their hadith, from the library’s own texts.
The researcher · 13 min read