Posts Tagged ‘ ahl al-sunnah ’

Regarding the Fundamentals of Islamic Belief

By Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Yusuf Binnori
October 30, 2009
Regarding the Fundamentals of Islamic Belief

When stating the necessary fundamentals of Islamic belief, scholars of the ummah usually mention a few examples in their books. A misunderstanding that occurs in the minds of some readers is that they think the necessary fundamentals are limited to just these examples and there is nothing more. This is even though the intent of those scholars is to merely present a few examples, not to shorten, restrict or limit . To remove this misunderstanding, we have compiled some...
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The Pride of Deoband: Shaykh Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar

By Saad Khan
May 11, 2009

On the 5th of May 2009, the great researcher (muhaqqiq) and hadith scholar of our age Shaykh Sarfaraz Khan Safdar (may Allah shower His infinite mercy upon him) passed away at the age of 98. Mawlana Sarfraz Khan ibn Nur Ahmad Khan ibn Gul Ahmad Khan was born in 1914 in the city of Mansehra, in the North West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan. He was a renowned researcher and scholar, a prolific writer, a lecturer in hadith and tafsir, and a...
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