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By Shaykh Fakhruddin Owaisi al-Madani Q1: What is the ruling (hukm) regarding celebrating the Mawlid-un-Nabi? A1: Any action we do may be judged by the Shari ah as being of one of the following five categories: Fard (Obligatory) Mustahabb (Recommended) Mubah/Ja iz (Simply Permissible) Makruh (Discouraged) Haram (Forbidden) Past and present Ulama from the four [...]

Mukhtasar al-Akhdari Recitation and Explanation by Ustadh Rami Nsour   Lamppost Productions is pleased to present this special MP3 recording of Ustadh Rami Nsour’s recitation and explanation of the famed Maliki fiqh text on Prayer and Purification! Download the MP3 files and a english translation of the text for this course by clicking the links [...]

Presentation of the Maliki Madhhab by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah:

Abu Yusuf said to Malik, “You do the adhan with tarjih, but you have no hadith from the Prophet about this.” Malik turned to him and said: “Subhan Allah! I have never seen anything more amazing than this. The call to prayer has been done (here) every day, five times a day, in front of [...]

Interesting interview with Shaykh ‘Abd-Allah Althaparro al-Firansi (al-Maliki al-Tijani) – French convert to Islam: Source: http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=100078376576024492 From Aljazeera (Arabic, no subtitles). Transcript (in Arabic): http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/218E0409-1FBC-4ADD-B5E9-491EBD730AA8.htm Pour les francophones: http://alfoulk.wordpress.com (site du Shaykh ‘Abd-Allah)

Shaikh Ahmad al-Nafarawi al-Maliki said in the commentary of Imam Abu Zaid’s Risala, “To shave the beard is without doubt haram according to all Imams”, it is also mentioned in ‘Tamhid’ which is a commentary of the Muwatta’ of Imam Malik that to shave the beard is haram and among males the only ones to [...]

The Muhaddith, Abdullahi Ibn Al-Mubarak رحمه الله said: “I was with Imam Malik رحمه الله while he was relating Hadith to us and a scorpion stung him ten times. Malik changed color and grew ashen, but he did not interrupt the hadith of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم When the [...]

“It is wajib for men to refrain from shaving the hair on their jaw bone (by passing a blade or razor over the skin). [The beard in the Arabic language is the hair on the two bones that hold the upper and lower teeth.] However, they may trim this chin hair if they wish.” “It [...]

It is narrated from Ibn ‘Abbas (radiya Allahu ‘anhu) that the Prophet (salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “There are no days in which righteous deeds done in them are more beloved to Allah than these days (i.e. the ten days of Dhul-Hijja). They said: O Messenger of Allah, not even Jihad in the path [...]