Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #001 Introducing Imam Nabahanis 40 Sets of 40 Hadiths
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The importance of seeking guidance and reestablishing one's spiritual work in early and late morning and afternoons is discussed by the speaker. They will be reading a series of works, including Bayn Alaihi Ta'ala's biography of the great known Prophet Dr. Assyab Alaihi Wasallam, which emphasizes gratitude, sincerity, and concern. They will also be reading a comprehensive series of 40 sets of hadiths, each with specific sinF or category, and will be highlighting the benefits of one's work. The distinction between divine and sacred hadiths is discussed, along with a monthly donation opportunity for listeners.
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The messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be
upon him, encouraged us to strive for uprightness
by seeking assistance in the early mornings, late
afternoons at and something of the depths of
the night. From this tradition, the scholars made
it a habit to briefly read text of
religious guidance in the late afternoon and often
term such readings the daily.
The term refers to the late afternoon, but
also to a time of rest from worldly
toils and reinvigoration of one's spirit.
In this day, Sheikh Harazrabani will be covering
2 texts, imam Zarnunji's primer on the etiquette
of seeking knowledge,
and imam Youssef Anabahani's beautiful collection of 40
sets of 40 prophetic hadith.
Alhamdulillah.
This is our first session
on
the daily
rauha in which we look at
guidance for
seekers, and it's a way of practicing
our
Arabic
and
striving
to connect
with
prophetic guidance and that which will
show us the path
of
seeking
knowledge.
We'll be looking at 2 books,
in the Roha.
One is a collection
of 40 sets of 40 hadiths of the
beloved messenger,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
by Sheikh Yusuf
and Nabihani.
The first of these sets
being on 40 hadith, 40
divine,
narrations.
And
the second text that we'll
be reading from
is called Talim al Mutalim,
guidance
or teaching,
instructing the student
regarding
the ways
of seeking knowledge.
And
the concept of the Ruha
is
taken from the Hadith
from a number of Hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
that are Sahih.
Amongst them, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
use truly this religion is ease.
And no one makes the religion difficult except
that it
overwhelms them.
And
how does one pursue the path of ease,
the path of facilitation?
The prophet SAWHIVSATAM said
that
seek
assistance
in
the early mornings.
And the late afternoons.
And something of the depths of the night.
So the is
the more is the beginning of the day.
It is is the time
it's the when people head out
to their worldly concerns.
Right? As
as it's coming
in hadith.
All people
head out
at the beginning of the day.
Right?
So that
and they trade with their own soul.
Either freeing it or
plunging it into,
torment.
So that's the idea of
of the
It's the beginning of the day when people
begin
heading out to their concerns. And that's why
the morning
is called the ghadat. And the the food
that one has at the beginning of the
day, it's called
the ghadat because of the the you see,
morning meal.
And
the is
the late afternoon,
the
the the end part of the day
because at that
at that time,
people
are returning home.
People are returning home,
number 1. Number 2,
because once they return home, this is time.
So they head
home. So they they go they they head
home and
it's time for raha.
Right? It's time for rest.
So it's a time to return. It's the
time of return
and the time of
rest. And it also
is also that it they they seek to
be reinvigorated.
They seek to be reinvigorated
after
the the draining
nature of their day.
So
this
these are the 2 times the third is
something of the depths of the night.
So the Ulema
across the lands made it a habit
that they
would
encourage something
of
spiritual
works and something of spiritual reminder
of religious works and reminders at these three
times.
And,
and there's many such traditions.
So after Fajr
prayer,
after Asar prayer, or around Asar time,
something of reminder. And this is this you
see in many different lands.
And this is a tradition
in the lands of Yemen, for example, in
the lands of Sham. Often, you'd have a
brief reminder
at
that time.
So
in that spirit, we will
be reading these works.
The the sessions will be brief around
20 minutes or so,
total,
looking at both
these works.
Today, we'll introduce
the first work,
and we have the PDF
for it.
This is by one of the great scholars
of the 20th century,
someone who defended
mainstream Islam,
from
modernist
and literalist excesses,
and also from
many of those who would
re
sort of try to strip away
the the role of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
and deemphasize
attachment to him and love
for him in
an expressive manner.
Someone who wrote many great works,
Sheikh Yusuf, ibn Ismail and Nabihani.
Who was
and will
provide you inshallah a brief biography of his
compiled by
Sheikh
Jibril
Haddad
Sheikh Jibril Fawad Haddad who's compiled a good
biography
of
the author.
And
we'll just look briefly. We won't read the
introduction but we'll read from the introduction Bayn
Alaihi Ta'ala.
So he says,
This is a book of 40
40 sets
of hadiths of
the master of Messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Right? So
he says in the in the beginning,
he has a number of points. He said
the first,
he says
a few points of note.
The the one who gathered this word says,
This collection
gathers
40,
books.
Right?
Arabic. Each of them being 40 hadiths.
Muhammahtidhinil
Islam.
Right? So this is a collection of 40
Hadith,
of 40 sets
of 40 Hadith. Each
one of which
is
specific
to one
sinf, one category,
Islam
of
something
essential
to the religion
of
Islam.
You have the text.
And
Then he says
Most of it
or all of it are authentic hadiths
or sound hadiths or that which is close
to them.
Right?
And then he says,
of the hadiths that no Muslim is free
of need of knowing.
Right?
Right.
Encompassing
what one needs to know.
Of the divine perfections.
Right?
Through which one knows one's belief.
And then
and of the virtues
of the greatest beloved,
Allah's blessings and peace be upon him. Right?
And of the virtues of the religion he
describes
so he opens with
Hadith
and
then Hadith on the praise of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And then he took there's several
collections of Hadith about the virtues of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi salam.
And his
the description of his character,
and the miracles of the prophet, salaahu alaihi
salaam. Each of these, he gathered for the
hadith son.
And of the proofs of his prophethood,
and all
the qualities that he is he, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, is characterized by in his worldly
life and in the hereafter.
Of the things unique to him.
And his intercessions.
And the prophet
perfections.
And the virtues of
the family of the prophet
and the virtues of his companions.
And the virtues of his
wives.
Islam. And that which the religion of Islam
has been distinguished
with.
Of
virtuous
qualities.
And of wisdoms.
And of rulings.
Right? So it's a very encompassing
collection.
So
what
a what a truly beneficial work this is.
Right?
And a comprehensive collection.
Every Hadith in this collection
is like a radiant
star.
And like a full moon when it is
apparent.
Right?
So in summary,
So in summary,
what a great book this is.
K. And of course, why would someone praise
their own work? Right? This
is,
shukrun. Right? This is being
it
is to be grateful
for Allah's blessings.
And
and mentioning
divine blessings
upon 1. Right? Which is taken from the
Quran.
Right?
And
as for the blessings of your Lord, enumerate
them.
As for the blessing of your Lord, enumerate
them.
And this
is sound when one sees
that good as being from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and one praises it
out of gratitude
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to highlight
the benefit
for people so that they may benefit from
it. If you wrote a book, say, this
is a useless book. Go read something else.
Right?
Then
people won't won't benefit from it and you
won't benefit from it. Right? Because
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
be avid for what will benefit you.
So the olema, when they they wrote what
would be a benefit to people, so they
highlight the benefit. Yeah. So it is done
out of gratitude to Allah to highlight the
benefit so that people benefit from it, number
1. Number 2, so that
they benefit
through people benefiting from it.
K? So it's an expression of sincerity when
done correctly.
And
in the olema,
they
they actually mentioned that one begins
with
there's an adab of beginning things, of beginning
books that there's 5 things that one should
do. Begin in the name of Allah,
with praise of Allah,
with sending blessings on the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
But then there's 2 duties left. Immediately, you
should tell people
what you are writing and why it's important.
Because if it's
if it's not important, you shouldn't have written
it.
But if you've written it,
then should highlight what are why it's important,
why it's a benefit to that.
People will will know what it is and
why they should pay attention to it.
So often
praise their works highly, and it's not out
of showing off or this, that. It's to
this is important. Right? And one should be
careful
not to think ill thoughts of of the
righteous. Right?
So one of the great Hanafis, for example,
you know, Ahmed Haskafi,
he wrote about his his work in.
Right? Whoever masters this book of mine, they
are the expert jurist.
Because this is the ocean.
But without any shores.
With beautiful
expressions
and subtle indications.
And with refined
expressions
and with precise
astute
meanings.
And then he goes on and on and
on.
So whoever
attains what is in it
will say with a full mouth, how much
did the early scholars leave for the later
scholars?
That's just a little part of much longer
praise. Why?
Because he wrote this amazing work,
and he wanted people to pay attention to
it. Right?
But the condition is it also be
so done with gratitude,
with sincerity,
with concern,
and needs to be true.
It needs to be true. Right?
So he says,
I know of no work like this
in this topic.
And all praise is due to Allah, the
bestower of blessings
and the granter of gifts.
Al Munaim, no one who gives
Ni'am. Gives Ni'am.
Al Wahab,
the complete gifter.
So this is how sheikh, you know,
Sheikh Yusuf al Nabhani
began
his work. Right?
And
if you go down to the next page
just to to to close out the introduction
to the first of the works that we'll
be covering.
On page 2,
in the in the bottom 3rd, he tells
us where he got
the,
where he got the hadiths from.
Right? And
so he got them from a work called
of Imam Al Munziri.
Imam Al Munziri looked at the major works
of hadith. I think about 15 or so
major works of hadith. This the 6 books
and others and try to gather all
the the hadith
of encouragement
or warning, and he arranged them by chapter.
It's one of the great works of practical
guidance.
Darul Ma used to pay a lot of
attention to it and encourage people that if
you want to bring the sunnah into your
life, this is one of the books that,
you know, that
encompasses
what the prophet encouraged and what he warned
against by im Imam Al Mundhiri.
And Riyad Salihin of Iam and Nawi And
Mishkat Al Masabi of Imam Tabrizi. And Mishkat
Al Masabi
is
is a work that tried to gather
all the hadiths in the 6 major books
and some of the hadiths beyond them
without any repetitions.
Right? And and it's and he mentions a
few other, but these are 3 of the
works that
anyone who's serious about their deen should have
read
and strived to embody. And usually, they they
suggest beginning with,
like, after learning the basics,
one
studies
reads
then then.
These are works of practical guidance that every
believer
should have connect should be connected with,
and and and whose practice should reflect that.
Right?
And a couple of other works that he
relied upon.
And
he begins
as he tells us at the bottom of
page 3.
Right?
That he that he arranged
the chapters in a in a deliberate manner,
and he arranged the hadiths in each chapter,
in each section
in a very careful
manner.
Right?
And then all of these are hadith
authentically related from the companions
and all of whom are absolutely upright are
completely
trustworthy and upright in their transmission.
And
so
this is
where he
got the works from. So the the first
collection which we'll begin
by looking at is on the hadith,
you know, the hadith,
the sacred
hadiths. And we'll begin
tomorrow with a just a brief explanation. What
is the difference between the Quran
as
divine speech
and a sacred hadith, hadith and
with and
a regular hadith of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. What is,
what is the distinction what distinguishes
divine If they're all from divine inspiration to
the prophet,
what distinguishes
each?
Like, why can't we recite? If the Hadith
are
inspired
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, why
can't we recite them in the prayer?
Can you say,
mean No, you can't. Right? You can only
recite Quran. What is the distinction? So we'll
look at that next, and then tomorrow also
we'll we'll introduce,
the second work that we're going to be
looking at,
by Imam Azarnuji, which is one of the
the great
classical works on the proper manners of seeking
knowledge. We ask Allah for sincerity, steadfastness, and
facilitation.
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