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[Thread] I noticed a lot of similarities between Sufyān al-Thawrī and Imām Aḥmed, though the two never met. It felt as though he was one of Imām Aḥmed's main role models when it c...
Jarīr ibn ʿAbdillāh reported that a man once passed gas while they were praying behind ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. When ʿUmar departed, he said, "I command whoever did it to get up, make...
It was reported through a weak isnād that Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Ibn al-Ḥanafiyya) said, "Al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn are both better than me, but I am more knowledgeable in m...
[Thread] I genuinely enjoy it when Twelvers draw isnād diagrams of a seemingly preponderant ḥadīth in their sources, as it gives us an opportunity to easily illustrate how meagre...
In his creed, Ibn Abi Yaʿlā al-Ḥanbalī (d. 526) affirmed the Ḥanbalī doctrine on al-Maqām al-Maḥmūd being that Allah will "seat the Prophet beside Him on the Throne." p. 37-38 1/...
۩{} THREAD {}۩ I keep getting asked: how do the scholar of ḥadīth identify forgeries when the forger claims to transmit a ḥadīth through a seemingly authentic isnād?
[Thread] In my latest book, I mentioned this tradition of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb's funeral. It was a popular tradition reported from several figures from Ahlul...
Anyone who argues that AI could be a viable alternative to ḥadīth scholars' analysis of ḥadīth is essentially confessing that he is yet to understand the essence of ḥadīth criticis...
On the Twelver Doctrine of the 12 Imāms [Brief Thread]
[Thread on the Ḥadīth of the 12 Imāms] Twelver appeals to the 12 caliphs ḥadīth often miss the forest for the trees. Their polemicists will often debate that their sect can better...
Nāṣibism (hatred of ʿAlī and, by extension, Ahulbayt) is a broad term that can span a variety of different groups whose hatred of ʿAlī stemmed from different premises. Accordingly...
There is an irony in the fact the Zaydī position on the Ṣaḥāba, in some respects, can be more extreme than the Twelver position. Unlike the Twelvers, Zaydīs maintain belief in al-...