About the Teachers (part 1)  

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Biography: Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari (Darul Iftaa Leicester, UK)
(scholar who taught day one of the weekend course)
Shaykh Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari is a traditionally-trained Islamic scholar who has studied the Arabic language and various other traditional Islamic sciences including Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir), Hadith and Fiqh in different parts of the world including the UK, Pakistan and Syria. His Shuyukh/teachers include his father, Shaykh Mawlana Adam, Shaykh Yusuf Motala, Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Shaykh Abd al-Razzaq al-Halabi and others. He has received authorizations (ijazahs) in various Islamic disciplines including the six major collections of Hadith and the science of issuing religious verdicts (Fatwa). His authored works include: Islamic Guide to Sexual Relations, Birth Control & Abortion in Islam, The Issue of Shares andSimplified Rules of Zakat, and is widely known for providing answers to people’s everyday issues and comprehensive fiqh related articles; which can be found at his website www.daruliftaa.com.
The Shaykh has taught many courses and lectured extensively on a range of topics, and continues to travel regularly teaching and lecturing both in the UK and abroad. Presently, he resides in Leicester, UK, where he is a teacher of various traditional Islamic sciences, and Director and researcher at the Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence (Darul Iftaa, www.daruliftaa.com).

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About Turath Publishers  

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About Turath Publishing (taken from their website)
In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.

All praise is due to Allah and May blessings and peace be on his beloved Rasul Muhammad (SAW). His Family, His companions and all those who follow him.

"Ask the people of the reminder if you do not know."(Al Qur'an 16:43)

Turath Publishing is dedicated to publishing authentic material on the Ahlus Sunnah Wa'al Jammah and in particular the Hanafi Fiqh. Our aim is to show that all the four school's of thought are derived from the Sunnah and they are part and parcel of the deen, and in turn the Muslims can concentrate on more important issues that concern the Ummah.

At Turath Publishing we are committed to delivering works of Islamic Jurisprudence and its traditional sources to English speakers. By this we intend insh'Allah to promote a deep understanding of the balance, depth and integrity of traditional Islamic Scholarship. Our vast intellectual heritage is a well from which we may draw life-giving inspiration and solutions to many of the contemporary problems we face as Muslims. To disparage and cast aspersions on the madhhabs is to disparage and cast aspersions on those great men who expended their lives in making the Prophetic path distinctly clear from error. In their times, living functioning Islamic polity, examples and norms existed in their totality. These men were immersed in these living realities. They understood the Din of Islam existentially and combined this with the sources to which they had, and we now have, access. Their judgements and comments are lights which aid us in illuminating the ocean that is the Sunnah in an age in which the immersion in a living Islamic situation (that they took for granted) does not even exist in thimblefuls.

May Allah cause us to draw from their experience by the bucketful, granting us the benefit of the ingredient that we so lack in this age and is the cause of so much misunderstandings, deviations and argument.

Ma'a salaam
The Turath Team

Turath work hard towards organising various courses teaching the books that they have pulished into the English language. Not only do they provide the English speaking audience material to read, they also provide the courses to allow them to study texts they would never have been able to study before.
May Allah accept their hard work and efforts. Ameen

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Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali's Introduction (Part I)  

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Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali's
Introduction

All Praise belongs to Allah who perfected the din for us and made the blessings on us complete and Who made our ummah - and to Allah belongs all praise - the best ummah. He sent among us a Messenger from ourselves reciting His āyāt to us, purifying us and teaching us the Book and the Wisdom. I praise Him for His many blessings. I witness that there is no god but Allah alone without partner, and this act of witnessing is the best protection for someone who seeks protection by it. I witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger whom He sent as a mercy to all creatures. He made it obligatory for him to explain what has been sent down to us, and so he elucidated all the important matters for us. He singled him out with concise comprehensive speech (jawāami' al-kalim) so that he often expressed separate pieces of wisdom and sciences in one phrase or in half a phrase. May Allah bless him and his companions with a blessing which will be a light for us all in every darkness, and may He grant him much peace.Allah, glorious and exalted is He, sent Muhammad (Allah bless him & give him peace) with concise comprehensive speech. He singled him out to receive astonishing wisdoms, as has been narrated in the two Sahih books (Sahih al Bukhari (7013) and Sahih Muslim (523)) from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (Allah bless him & give him peace) that he said, "I was sent with concise comprehensive speech." Az-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) said, "Concise Comprehensive speech, according to that which has reached us, is that Allah, exalted is He, united many issues for him, which used to be written in books before him [separately] in one or two issues and so on."

Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated the hadith of Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said, "The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) came out to us one day and it was as if he were someone saying farewell. He said, 'I am Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet,' saying it three times, 'and there is no prophet after me. I have been given the first parts of speech and its conclusions and its comprehensive concision" (Musnad Imam Ahmad (2:172)) and he then mentioned the rest of the hadith.

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Welcome  

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Assalamu Alaykum Wa rahamtullahi Wa barakatuh,

Bismillahir Rahamanir Raheem,

Introduction to the blog:

This blog has been created by students who attended the course of

"Explanation of Imam ibn Rajab Al Hanbali's Compendium of Knowledge"

The course was organised by Turath publishers (http://www.turathpublishing.com/) and Imperial Isoc who through much time and effort made this event possible. On the 23rd and 24th of Febraury 2008 was part 1 of the two part course.

The event was held at Imperial University in South Kensington. We were very blessed to sit in the presence of two of the most amazing teachers; Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari (http://www.daruliftaa.com/) who taught fifteen ahadeeth and Shaykh Abdur Raheem (of Darul Uloom Bury) who taught ten ahadeeth.

The aim of this blog is to share the notes on the various ahadeeth taught by the two very repsected teachers (May Allah be pleased with them). Insha'Allah it will be a means of sharing beneficial knowledge that we can all try to implement in our lives. The course was a combination of practical rulings and explanations as well as advise. By the will of Allah, by reading the notes you too will become astounded by the wisdom and knowledge of the beautiful words of Rasoolullah and the vast knowlege of the teachers.

Please do bookmark this blog and read the notes as they are posted.

I request that you take out time to make du'aa for Turath Publishers, Imperial Isoc, Shaykh Abdur Raheem and Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam. May Allah be pleased with them, grant them a long life to spread the deen, grant them sincerity in what they do as well as barakah in their time.

This was truly the most amazing weekend of a person's life. I am certain all of the students who attended the course would agree. By reading this blog, insha'Allah you too will feel inclined towards attending part two of the course.

Posts to follow:

-Biographies of the two teachers
-Small overview of the weekend
-About the book
-About the Author
-Detailed notes on each of the ahadeeth

If anyone attended the course and would like to contribute please leave a comment with your details.
Lastly, I leave you with a small clip from day two of the course. Shaykh Abdur Raheem is teaching one of the ahadeeth. Hopefully this will make you want to read more from this blog:



Du'aas requested.
Wassalam

(Message on behalf of all blog authors: please do make du'aa that Allah places sincerity within the hearts of the authors. As well as this please do notify us of any mistakes.)

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