Inculcate good etiquettes, O students of Hadith!
By Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwiand translated by Syed Huzaifah Ali Nadwi To access the original arabic, follow this link There are many types of…
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The Educational Institution Where the Questioner Is Hunted
The relationship between education and questioning is much like that between a lamp and its light. If a lamp exists but gives no light, one begins to wonder whether it has been placed there merely…
Sunnah and Ḥadīth
By this link: What is the meaning of sunnah? The technical meaning of the term is a way or practice that was established and…
Departure of Scholars from the Way of the Ḥadīth Imāms
By this link: We attend your lectures and you point out all sorts of scholarly mistakes in the treatment of the Prophetic sunnah and…
Meaning of Companionship
I need to explain to you the difference between a disciple and a companion. A disciple can only do those things that the master…
How to motivate yourself for study?
Eating is possible but difficult and unpleasant when you have no appetite. Similarly, study is difficult and unpleasant when you have no curiosity and…
The True Meaning of Study
By this link: Something has confounded us and as you are our teacher, can you please remove for us the confusion and clarify for…
Surah Al-`Imran
The longer surahs at the beginning of the received text of the Qur’an have a complex arrangement of passages because they are simultaneously addressing…
The Right Pathway to Studying Ḥadīth
By this link: Why is it that you vociferously denounce the manner of teaching the noble Prophetic ḥadīth in most of the religious seminaries…
The Meaning of Ijāzah
By this link: We see you greatly welcoming the quest for Ijāzah from various teachers, both verbally and in writing, and we see you…
Women Scholars in Islam: Some reflections
Reflections from a Ramadan retreat This Ramadan I had the good fortune to be able to do the retreat in the last 10 days…
Some Reflections on ‘Aqidah
A creed is a special kind of formal statement of religious belief or collection of such statements. A very good and justly famous creed…
Formation of thoughts
Thoughts are formed independently of reason and before they are articulated in some form of language. Thoughts arise out of empathy of fellow feeling…
Questions & Answers on Scholarship and Method
View all Q&A →Imām al-Bukhārī and Imām Muslim on the meeting of narrators
Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh Sidi Shaykh Akram I pray this message finds you in good health and I ask Allah SWT to shower you with His favours in both worlds. Beloved Shaykh this is your student Jawed Tarin…
The meaning of ‘ummi’
Dr Amsha Nahid from Australia asked the following question: Assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Dear Shaykh, I read an article claiming that the word ‘Ummi’ in the Qur’an means “gentile” (non-Jew) or someone unfamiliar with the Law of Musa…
al-Jāḥiẓ on the definitions of balāghah
Assalamo Alaikum, I pray Almighty to find you in good health. Of late, I was studying up. It was Al-Bayan wa-Al-Tabyeen of Al-Jahiz (775-868 A.D.). An erudite para stuck me up. I was, indeed, at a loss. I could not…
Books on Scholarship and Method
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Usul al-Shashi
Usul al-Shashi is a well-known compendium on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence according to the Hanafi school. Despite…
Lessons Learned: Treasures from Nadwah’s Sages
I joined Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ and felt as if I had been raised from the dusty ground to the…
Foundation to Hadith Science
This primer on understanding and studying hadith was authored by Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi after the realization that…