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Fiqh
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Understanding The Four Madhhabs: the problem with anti-madhhabism
The ummah’s greatest achievement over the past millennium has undoubtedly been its internal intellectual cohesion. From the fifth…
Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad
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On Keeping the Beard
Dear Brother Isa Robert Martin: Thank you for your letter of 10 August 1995 which read, in part:…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Why Does One Have to Follow a Madhhab?
Debate Between Muhammad Sa’id al-Buti and a Leading Salafi Teacher [Nuh Ha Mim Keller:] I will close this…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Why Muslims Follow Madhhabs?
The work of the mujtahid Imams of Sacred Law, those who deduce shari‘a rulings from Qur’an and hadith, has been the…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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The Concept of Bid’a in the Islamic Shari’a
In the name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate There are few topics that generate as much controversy today…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Reliance of the Traveller
A translation of the classical manual of Islamic Sacred Law (Shari’ah) `Umdat as-Salik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1386),…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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What did you set out to do when you began translating the Reliance of the Traveller?
© Nuh Ha Mim Keller 1995 I began translating Reliance of the Traveller in Jordan, out of personal need for…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Who or what is a Salafi? Is their approach valid?
The word salafi or “early Muslim” in traditional Islamic scholarship means someone who died within the first four hundred years…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Which of the four orthodox madhhabs has the most developed fiqh for Muslims living as minorities?
Which of the four orthodox madhhabs has the most developed fiqh for Muslims living as minorities? My first…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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What is a Madhhab? Why is it necessary to follow one?
What is a Madhhab? Why is it necessary to follow one? The word madhhab is derived from an Arabic word…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Do Ibn Baz and al-Albani Have Ijazas?
Question 6 The Ijazas of Ibn Baz and al-Albani The Salafis allege that both Ibn Baz and…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Why Does One Have to Follow a Madhhab?
Debate Between Muhammad Sa’id al-Buti and a Leading Salafi Teacher ©Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller 1995 [Nuh…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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Would you advise individuals to study hadith from al-Bukhari and Muslim on their own?
Any Muslim can benefit from reading hadiths from al-Bukhari and Muslim, whether on his own or with others.…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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What is the meaning of qawwamuna as used in Surat al-Nisa’, verse 34?
Allah says in the Qur’an, Men are caretakers (qawwamuna) of women, because of that through which Allah has…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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What is the distinction between hadith and Sunna?
The word sunna has three separate meanings that are often mixed up by Muslims when the term arises…
Sh. Nuh Keller
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