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Fiqh-us-Sunnah was written by Sayyid Saabiq (1915-2000 C.E.), may Allaah have mercy on him. The following information is taken from his obituary in the March 2, 2000 Daily News of IANA Radionet.
In the early 1990’s, Fiqh-us-Sunnah was translated into English by a group of people commissioned by American Trust Publications. The translators included Muhammad Sa’eed Dabas, Jamal al-Din M. Zarabozo, Abdul-Majid Khokhar, and M. S. Kayani. This group published Fiqh-us-Sunnah in five volumes.
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Section : Proximity of the sutrah. Al-Baghawi says: “The people of knowledge prefer that the sutrah be so close that there is only enough space to make the sajdah, and the same applies to the distance between the rows in…
Section : Prohibition of passing in front of a praying person. It is forbidden to pass in front of a person who is praying (i.e., between him and his sutrah). There are many hadith which forbid passing between a person…
Section : Preventing someone from passing in front of a praying person. It is permissible to keep some one from passing in front of a person who is praying. If a praying person has a sutrah in front of him,…
Section : Passing of anything does not invalidate the prayer. The salah is not invalidated by anything (passing in front of the praying person). ‘Ali, ‘Uthman, ibn al-Musayyab, ash-Sh’abiy, Malik, ash-Shaf’i, Sufyan al-Thauri and the Hanafi scholars are of the…
Section : Graveyards, do not offer salat in. ‘Aishah reports that the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam said: “Allah cursed the Jews and Christians [because] they took the graves of their prophets as mosques.” This is related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad,…
Section : Churches and synagogues. Abu Musa al-Ash’ari and ‘Umar ibn ‘Abdulaziz prayed in a church. Ash-Sh’abiy, ‘Ata, and Ibn Sireen did not see anything wrong with praying in a church [if one happened to be in a church at…
Section : Dunghills, slaughterhouses, middle of the roads, resting places of the camels near watering holes, bathrooms and on the roof of the “house of Allah”. Ibn ‘Umar relates that the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam prohibited salah in seven places:…
Section : Prayer in the Ka’bah. Offering salah in the Ka’bah is valid regardless of whether it is an obligatory prayer or a supererogatory prayer. Ibn ‘Umar reports: “The Messenger of Allah entered the house [the Ka’bah] with ‘Usamah ibn…
Section : The earth as a mosque. Allah the Exalted has conferred a special blessing upon this ummah – that is, the whole earth has been declared a mosque for it. Therefore, when the time for prayer comes, a Muslim…
Section : The excellence of building mosques. ‘Uthman reports that the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam said: “Whoever builds for Allah a mosque, seeking by it Allah’s grace, Allah will build for him a house in paradise.” This is related by…
Section : Supplications while going to the mosque. It is sunnah to make supplications while going to the mosque. The following are examples of such supplications: Umm Salamah reports: “When the Messenger of Allah left the house he would say:…
Section : Supplications upon entering and leaving the mosques. It is a sunnah for one who wants to enter the mosque to enter with his right foot first and to say: “I seek refuge in Allah, the Exalted, and by…
Section : The excellence of proceeding to the mosque to attend salah. Abu Hurairah reports that the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam said: “If anyone goes back and forth to the mosque [to attend the prayers], Allah will prepare for him…
Section : The prayer of salutations to the mosque (tahyyatul masjid). Abu Qatadah reports that the Messenger of Allah said: “When one of you comes to the mosque, he should pray two rak’at before he sits.” This is related by…
Section : Three most excellent mosques. Jabir reports that the Messenger of Allah said: “Prayer in the inviolable mosque [in Makkah] is like 100,000 prayers [elsewhere]. And prayers in my mosque [in Medinah] is like one thousand prayers [elsewhere]. And…