Exam periods for nearly every student is that time of year which they dread. No matter what the exam is, whether they are school/college exams, madrassah exams, your driving test, regardless of what exam it is, without a doubt it is one of the most stressful times for a student. Having to cram everything in which you have been taught in the past few months, in the past year(s) even, for an exam can be very nerve wracking and difficult for any individual.

Book Review: Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (Urdu)

Author: Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ (may Allah shower him with His mercy) (d. 1396/1976)

Reviewer: Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islam

Tas-hil al-Adab Fi Lisan al-‘Arab popularly known as ‘Arbi Ka Mu’allim’ or ‘Arabic Tutor’, a well-known Arabic Grammar textbook which is included in the syllabus of many Islamic seminaries.

Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn ibn ʿAwn ibn Ziyād[1], commonly known as Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, or by his teknonym, Abū Zakariyyā, was born in the late 158 A.H during the caliphate of Jaʿfar al-Mansūr[2]. H passed away in the year 233 A.H on the night of Jumuʿah whilst on a journey from Madinah Munawwarah for Ḥajj.[3]

The following is an excerpt from Muftī ‘Abd al-Mālik’s book “al-Madkhal ilā ‘Ulūm al-Hadīth al-Sharīf”[1] on the use of computer programs to locate and grade hadīths. In this excerpt, Muftī ‘Abd al-Malik, seeing the abuse of these programs, sets out to clarify several misconceptions regarding them. Although the author’s contention lies mainly in the usage of computer programs to locate and grade Hadith, his insights are equally applicable to internet searches, printed books, and computer searches in other sciences as well. No doubt computer programs have immense benefit and can open many avenues when searching for hadīth, but everything needs to be put into perspective, and that is what this article hopes to achieve. An idiomatic translation was adopted to make the article more reader-friendly. – Muntasir Zaman

Title: Al-Madkhal ilā ‘Ilm al-Sunan

Author: Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī Tahqiq: Muhammad ‘Awwāmah

Other Details: pp.969 + 94, vol.2, $35 (hardback), ISBN 978-9933-503-59-8

For student of Arabic and Islamic scholars, I highly recommend supplementing the listening of Islamic audio books in Arabic to the reading of physical Arabic books. It has been a game-changer for me and a incredible way to make my time productive while commuting or walking.

Studying can become monotone when a routine becomes fixed and one is required to repeat the same process daily. The question then is how should one motivate himself to study?

Two of the primary terminologies of Hadith are Ṣaḥīḥ and Ḥasan. Although the absence/weakness of only 1 of the 5 conditions of Ṣaḥīḥ (ḍabṭ) make the Hadith Ḥasan, they are not on the same level, rather, they’re almost opposites. For this reason, using ‘Ṣaḥīḥ’ and ‘Ḥasan’ synonymously or together doesn’t seem accurate, as they both have qualities that oppose each other, main quality being that; the memory of a Ṣaḥīḥ Hadith’s narrator is complete whilst the memory of a Ḥasan Hadith’s narrator is defective. So what does it mean when the likes of Imām Tirmizī (رحمه الله) label one Hadith with both terms?

The use of Arabic diacritical marks has risen in the last century, with Islamic Scholarship growing in the West, we find many new books, translations, research papers, articles or even blog posts often consist of Arabic macrons.