What is unfortunately becoming a not so uncommon occurrence is the preying of so-called people of knowledge on Muslim women resulting in situations where transgressions against Allāh (ﷻ) take place. What some of these people will do is manipulate Islamic texts to suit their desires, make the student feel guilty in questioning their authority or knowledge, ask students to reveal personal and private information about themselves, and make claims like these disobedient acts are allowed when it is with a “shaykh” or for the purpose of seeking knowledge. With this in mind, there are some basic principles we would like to re-emphasize to ensure that learning in our religion is not compromised by these misguided predators.
Category: Shaykh Abū ʿUbādah, Hārith al-Shiraida
What is the ruling on the removal of hair and clipping the nails for the one who wants to perform an uḍḥiyah but is not performing the Ḥajj?
Conclusion: The ḥadīth of Umm Salamah restricting one from removing from their hair or nails until their ūḍḥiyah has been slaughtered is confirmed to be from her words; as for the marfū’ narrations of this ḥadīth, then they appear to be incorrect. The ḥadīth of Umm Salamah appears to also be specific to those who are performing the Ḥajj and in the state of iḥrām. As for those who are not performing the Ḥajj, then they are not restricted from doing what those who are in the state of iḥrām are prohibited from doing.
And Allāh (ﷻ) knows best.
Dispute Concerning Fasting the Six Days of Shawwāl | PDF
If a person is not able to fast six days in Shawwāl but can fast outside of it, or they are accustomed to fasting other days regularly throughout they year, then Allāh willing, they will have the same reward written for them.
Response to the claim: there is ijmā’ that if a person intentionally vomits then they have nullified their fast & must make up the day
There is nothing authentic to prove that vomiting nullifies one’s fast; whether one vomits intentionally or unintentionally. As for the Ḥadīth: “And whoever makes himself vomit then he must makeup (the fast).”, then the correct opinion is that it is weak. It was weakened by Aḥmad, Al-Bukhārī, At-Tirmiṫhī and An-Nasāʿī. The reason for the weakness is ʿĪsā Ibn Yūnus narrated the Ḥadīth in a mistaken manner. Likewise, Abū Hurayrah was of the opinion that the fast isn’t nullified by anything coming out of the body.
Weakness of Ramaḍān Greeting: “O Allāh, bring it upon us with blessings and faith, and security and Islām, and aid upon the prayer, fast, and recitation of the Qur’ān. O Allāh, deliver us to Ramaḍān and deliver it to us…”
There are supplications attributed to some of the Salaf, but suffice it to say, any such attribution to the Prophet (ﷺ) is without merit.
And Allāh (ﷻ) knows best.
The authenticity of the narration: “If half of Sha’bān remains, then do not fast”
The greater scholars of ḥadīth saw the narration of al-ˋAlā ibn ˋAbd-ir-Raḥmān, from his father, Abd-ur-Raḥmān ibn Yaˋqūb, from Abū Hurayrah about the prohibition of fasting from the middle of Shaˋbān onwards as being a munkar ḥadīth that goes against the authentic narrations which show the permissibility of fasting up until a day or two before Ramaḍan. And for the one who is accustomed to fasting certain days, yet these days happened to fall on either the last or second last day of Shaˋbān, then they may fast these days without fear of sin.
As for the attempts of scholars to reconcile between narrations prohibiting the fast during the second half of Shaˋbān and the narrations permitting it, then no reconciliation is needed since the narrations that prohibit the fast cannot be confirmed to be from the words of the Prophet (ﷺ) according to those who are known for their soundness in ḥadīth and ḥadīth criticism.
An Abridgement of Words Concerning the Ḥadīth of the Virtue of the Night of the Middle of Shaˋbān
The following PDF document (available in Arabic and English) is a look into the narrations concerning the virtue of the night of the middle of Sha’bān and the reason for rejecting these narrations by our Shaykh and Muḥaddith, Abū ‘Alī, al-Ḥārith ibn ‘Alī al-Ḥasanī
An Abridgement of the Most Famous & Important Weak Aḥādīth Related to Fasting
This book discusses 55 of the most famous & important weak Ahādīth related to Fasting and Ramadhān
Sunnah Studies 