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Is It Obligatory to Attend the Khuṭbah (Sermon) If It is In a Language Other than Arabic? By Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymīn رَحِمَهُ اللهُ  

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Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymīn رَحِمَهُ اللهُ  said:

“The apparent (meaning) of His تَعَالَىٰ statement:

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا نُودِىَ لِلصَّلَوٰةِ مِن يَوْمِ ٱلْجُمُعَةِ فَٱسْعَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ وَذَرُوا۟ ٱلْبَيْعَ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ خَيْرٌۭ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ۝٩

[الجمعة (٦٢): ٩]

{O you who have believed, when the call (to prayer) is made on Friday, proceed to the remembrance of Allāh and leave off your trading. That is better for you, if you only knew} [al-Jumuʿah (62): 9] is that it is obligatory to attend even if the khaṭīb (one delivering the khuṭbah) speaks in other than Arabic and the attendee does not comprehend it.

This is why we say to the deaf, attend the khuṭbah even if you cannot hear. We also say to the attendee, do not speak while the Imām is delivering the sermon, due to the generality of the prohibition on speaking while the Imām is delivering the sermon, (this is the case) even if the attendee is deaf, or does not understand the language of the khaṭīb.”

Source: Majmūʿ Fatāwá wa Rasāʾil Faḍīlat al-Shaykh Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, 16: 35, no. 1191.

What is al-Tiwalah? By Sh. Muhammad b. Salih al-‘Uthaymin

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Sh. Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, may Allāh have mercy upon him, said:

“al-Tiwalah is something [people] do claiming that it causes a woman to be loved by her husband and vice versa. The closest [term] to that is what is referred amongst us as al-diblah (ring). It is said that the husband inscribes his wife’s name in his ring, and the wife inscribes her husband’s name in her ring, and they claim that they – the couple – attain love and affection through this action of theirs, and that if he removes the ring, or she removes it, it means [their] separation.

So, if one asks: what is the means for a man to love his wife and his wife to love her husband? We say: the means to that has been explained by Allāh in His statement: {And live with them in a good manner} [al-Nisāʾ (4): 19]. So, if a person lives in a good manner with his wife, and she does likewise; love, closeness and blissful married life occurs.”

Source: Fatāwá Nūr ʿalá al-Darb (1: 107-8, no. 77).

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One of the many notable and beneficial features of Sh. al-ʿUthaymīn’s works, is that he always tries to provide a divinely legislated solution, and alternative, to something which is prohibited in the Dīn. May Allāh bless him with all goodness.

What Matn to Memorise – Fiqh or Hadith?

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Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421), may Allāh have mercy upon him, was asked whether it was better to memorise a study-text (matn) of jurisprudence (fiqh) or a concise study-text of ḥadīth. The Shaykh responded:

“It is better to memorise a concise study-text of ḥadīth such as ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām and Bulūgh al-Marām, but he should not leave off consulting the speech of the people of knowledge and jurisprudence.”

Majmūʿ Fatāwá wa Rasāʾil al-Shaykh Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, vol. 26, p. 185.

Note: Both of the books mentioned by the Shaykh are books dedicated to including aḥādīth of the Prophet ﷺ pertaining to juridical matters such as purification, prayer, zakāh, fasting, ḥajj, buying and selling, marriage, jihād, capital punishments etc.

ʿUmdat-ul-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (d. 600) contains aḥādīth reported by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim only (“agreed upon”). According to the al-Arnāʾūṭ edition there are 430 such aḥādīth. The best commentary is that of Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd (d. 702) entitled Iḥkām al-Aḥkām which a beginner may find difficult to grasp. Bulūgh al-Marām of Ibn Ḥajar (d. 852) is at least three times as large and contains 1582 aḥādīth according to al-Zuhayrī’s edition. The Shaykh has his own explanation of Bulūgh al-Marām in 15 volumes entitled Fatḥ Dhī al-Jalāl wa al-Ikrām bi Sharḥ Bulūgh al-Marām.