History tells of a beautiful story involving Abu Hanifah, rahimahu Allah, the great scholar and Imam who established his own madhab. Imam Abu Hanifah had a neighbor who would always bother him. Every night, this neighbor would drink and sing, perhaps trying to drown out a pain in his chest. Among the things he would [...]
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Abu Hanifah and the Drunken Neighbor
Posted in Scented Sheets, Withered Scrolls on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Wise Young Boy
Posted in Withered Scrolls on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[authenticity?] Many years ago, during the time of the taabi’een (the generation of Muslims after the Sahabah), Baghdad was a great city of Islam. In fact, it was the capital of the Islamic Empire and because of the great number of scholars who lived there, it was the center of Islamic knowledge. One day, the [...]
