The Prophet's ﷺ Night Journey and Heavenly Ascent
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Gibril Fouad Haddad
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About The Book
Shaykh Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki delivers an absorbing account of the Isra' wal-Mi'raj that brings the reader almost into the story. Indeed it is a detailed narrative spiced with a simple commentary that attempts to reconcile various accounts or reports of the event that transpired. This provides a comprehensive reading that takes the reader on an experiential ride to feel the reality of this extraordinary miracle of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. In short, it is very inspiring; exhilarating to the spiritual core.
"Praise be to Allah Who chose His praiseworthy servant Muhammad ﷺ for the Message, distinguished him with the night journey on the lightening-mount Buraq, and caused him to ascend the ladders of perfection to the high heavens to show him of the greatest signs of his Lord. He raised him until he reached the Lote-tree of the Farthest Boundary where ends the science of every Messenger-Prophet and every Angel Brought Near, where lies the Garden of Retreat, to the point that he heard the sound of the pens that write what has befallen and what is to befall."
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About the author
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki: Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki al-Hasani (1363-1426 AH / 1944-2004 CE) was among the foremost traditional Sunni scholars of his age, a Hasani sayyid descended from the Prophet through his grandson al-Hasan. He was born in Makka into the renowned al-Maliki family, in which five forebears had served as Maliki imams of the Masjid al-Haram, his grandfather al-Sayyid Abbas having been mufti and khatib of the Sacred Mosque. He memorized the Qurʾan in his youth under his father al-Sayyid Alawi, studied the traditional sciences with leading teachers of the Hijaz, and earned a doctorate from al-Azhar in Egypt while still young, gathering ijazas from scholars across the Muslim world. He taught within the Masjid al-Haram in his father's circle and at Umm al-Qura University, and after being removed from those posts he continued teaching from his home, where evening gatherings drew hundreds of students. Maliki in jurisprudence and Ashʿari in creed, attached to the Shadhili path, he authored close to a hundred works on creed, hadith, Qurʾanic exegesis, sira, and spirituality. His Mafahim Yajib an Tusahhah (rendered "Notions That Must Be Corrected") became a landmark defense of mainstream Sunni belief and devotion to the Prophet. He died in Makka and was buried at Jannat al-Muʿalla; his students carry his teaching across the Islamic world.
About the translator
Gibril Fouad Haddad: Gibril Fouad Haddad (b. 1960 CE) is a Lebanese-born scholar, author, and translator widely regarded as one of the clearest voices of traditional Sunni Islam in the Western world. Born in Beirut to a Catholic family and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States, he completed a doctorate in French literature at Columbia University, where he embraced Islam in 1991. He later moved to Damascus, where he devoted close to ten years to the Islamic sciences under teachers such as Nur al-Din Itr and Wahba al-Zuhayli, gathering scholarly licenses (ijazas) from more than 150 shaykhs across the Muslim world. A specialist in hadith, doctrine, Qurʾanic studies, and prophetic biography, he is recognized as a hadith expert (muhaddith) and a determined defender of the four traditional schools of law. He follows the Shafiʿi school in law and the Ashʿari creed, with a Naqshbandi spiritual affiliation. His many works as author and translator include the Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries, The Four Imams and Their Schools, and Sunna Notes, alongside numerous renderings of classical texts on theology and the merits of the Prophet. He was named among The 500 Most Influential Muslims and later served at the Islamic studies center of Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781952306013
Author
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki
Pages
88
Translator
Gibril Fouad Haddad
Year Published
2021
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.3 in
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