Stories of the Sahaba
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Asim Ahmad
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He rode into the magnificently decorated court of the Persian commander Rustam. A tattered scabbard was strapped around his chest and the spear hung from a scorched leather strap. Big, circular patches patterned his shield of cowhide. Rustam's sentries rushed to his mount and rugged at the reins. “Alright!” they said. He rode onto the golf embroidered rug, defiantly. He purposefully looked around until he found what he was looking for. Grabbing the thick cushions, he implanted them on his spear and fed the reins into the holes to tie his mount. Then, in quick motion, he struck his spear into the rug and lowered himself onto the ground. Rustam was awed by the odd behavior of the Bedouin. Could these be the same Arabs who lived as vessels of the Persian Empire? “What brings you here?”Rustam asked, “Allah sent us to take our humankind from servitude to creation to servitude to Allah,” the Sahabi Rabi R.A. replied, “and to bring humankind out from the drudgeries of this world toward the justice of Islam.”
This anthology features stories of the Sahaba R.A. to inspire us to illustrate the meaning of humanity and love for Allah and His last Prophet P.B.U.H. We must read these stories repeatedly and inculcate love for the Sahaba R.A. in our hearts, for love of Sahaba R.A. invites love for the blessed Prophet PBUH and love for the blessed prophet PBUH invites the love of Allah. The lives of the Sahaba RA were nonfictional saga of love for Allah, fearlessness, selflessness, valiance, humility, and austerity. Their mission: to secure the Din of Allah and preserve it until the Day of Judgment. They are an inspiration for the whole of humankind – Muslim or not – and teach us the true meaning of honor, justice, and peace. Had these inhabitants of the Next World not have been sent, this world would have come to an end, laid waste by the treacheries, ingredients, and conspires Mankind hatched on itself. “O Allah! If this group is destroyed, “the blessed Prophet PBUH prayed during the battle of Badr, “You will never be worshipped for all time.”
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About the author
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi: Shaykh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi rahimahullah (1897-1982) was born in Khandhla, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a deeply religious family. He was privately tutored by his father, Shaykh Yahya, in the Islamic sciences and completed the six canonical books of hadith under his instruction. He remained in the company of his shaykh, the hadith master Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, for seventeen years until the latter's passing in 1927. Together they worked on an eighteen-volume commentary of Abu Dawud; Shaykh Zakariyya later independently composed a twenty-three-volume commentary of Muwatta Imam Malik over a span of thirty years. He began teaching the Islamic sciences at age twenty and taught hadith for 46 years (1923-1969). His other celebrated works include Fada'il al-Amal, Khasa'il-e-Nabawi (a commentary on Shama'il al-Tirmidhi), and al-Abwab wa al-Tarajum (an explanation of the chapters of Sahih al-Bukhari). He was granted spiritual successorship (khilafa) in the Chishti-Sabriyya order.
About the translator
Asim Ahmad: Asim Ahmad was born on April 17, 1975, in Binghamton, New York, where his parents had settled after emigrating from Pakistan in the early 1970s. At the age of twelve, he completed the memorization of the Qur'an in approximately eleven months while studying in Pakistan, before returning to complete his secondary education in the United States. He subsequently pursued a course of traditional Islamic studies. He has served as a teacher of hadith at Darul Uloom al-Madania in Buffalo, New York, one of the leading Deobandi seminaries in North America. As a translator for Madania Publications, he has brought into English a number of significant works from the Deobandi scholarly tradition, including works of Shaykh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi. He translated Stories of the Sahaba and The Fathers and Sons of Deoband, introducing readers to pivotal figures of the Deoband movement. He is also the author of the Hajj and Umrah Guide, a comprehensive practical guide to performing Hajj and Umrah that grew from a small personal project into a widely used pilgrim's handbook.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781936157099
Publisher
Madania Publications
Author
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi
Pages
230
Translator
Asim Ahmad
Year Published
2013
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.25 in
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