Allamah Waheed uz Zaman Siddiqi was a distinguished Indian scholar, translator, and lexicographer. Whilst he was primarily regarded as a Salafi scholar not Deobandi, although he shared some academic and institutional overlaps with Deoband. Renowned for his immense...
Allah (swt) says in Surah Az-Zumar, verse 33: “وَالَّذِي جَاءَ بِالصِّدْقِ وَصَدَّقَ بِهِ أُولٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُتَّقُونَ” “And the one who brought the truth and believed in it—those are the righteous.” Some Sunni exegetes have identified the second part of...
The paucity of Hadith from Ḥaḍrat ʿAlī (as) in the Ṣaḥīḥayn and our questions Dr. Maḥmūd Ṭaḥān notes the total number of aḥādīth in the Ṣaḥīḥayn as follows: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: The total number of narrations in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī is 7,275, including repeated narrations....
One of the most glaring examples of intellectual dishonesty in anti-Shiʿi polemical literature is found in the writings of Iḥsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr. His book al-Shiʿa wa Ahl al-Bayt, often paraded in sectarian circles as an authoritative critique, collapses under even the...
The English translation of Muḥammad Abū Zahra’s biography of Abū Ḥanīfa includes the following analysis of Shīʿa beliefs: “The separation of the Shīʿa from the body of the Muslims was of political origin and turned on the matter of how the khalīfa of the Muslims...
