Faithful Reflections

Open hands, and everything else follows from where you point them When You Ask, Ask Allah - Hadith of Ibn Abbas Explained Islamic Research Notes · Hadith Study · 33 minute read Before you start A boy riding behind the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was given advice he never forgot. It became one of the most studied narrations in Islam - number nineteen in Imam al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith. Most people know two lines of it. The full text is far longer and considerably stronger. This is the long version of my notes: the complete narration with Arabic, what each clause is doing, what "ask Allah" rules out and what it emphatically doesn't, how reliance sits alongside hard work, the four channels help arrives through, and an open account of three errors I had to correct in the material I started from. What's on this page A boy on the back of a camel The hadith in full Why this one is studied so closely "Be mindful of Allah and He will protect you" ...

Written on the left, memorised on the right. Neither system was ever trusted alone How Was the Quran Preserved? Evidence and Objections Islamic Research Notes · Qur'an Studies · 46 minute read Before you start The claim that the Qur'an has come down unchanged for fourteen centuries is a historical claim, which means it can be examined rather than simply asserted. This is the complete version of my notes, and it runs in two halves. The first traces how the preservation actually worked: scribes writing on palm stalks and bone during the revelation itself, memorisation running in parallel, the annual review, Abu Bakr's collection after Yamamah, and the standardisation under Uthman. The second takes on the objection that unsettles people most - if there are different qira'at, how can the text be preserved? I deal with that properly, including what Yasir Qadhi actually said in 2020 and why it gets misquoted, and where popular Muslim claims overreached in a wa...