Salam Imam al-Dhahabi mentions the following story in his entry for Sufyan al-Thawri -Allah have mercy on him- (as cited in Fawaid al-Gharra 3/281): “Ali bin Abd al-Aziz said: Arim narrated to us saying: I went to Abu Mansur to…
Salam Please find below an extract on a project I am working on (every so often) regarding the sirah. It is a translation of an 11th century (Hijri) Moroccan scholars abridgment of Imam Ibn Sayyid al-Nas’s Sirah work, wherein the…
Salam With Ramadan fast approaching again the controversial issue of moonsighting tends to crop up. I have written about it elsewhere on the old blog, and to be honest cannot really understand why the global sighting view is not pointed…
