Author Archives: Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad
Is wiping over khuffs a tenet of faith?
Question: What is the ruling on a person that does not believe in wiping over the leather socks as a practice of the Prophet (s) and is it part of `Aqeedah – tenets of Faith? Answer: He is a person … Continue reading
Calling a Muslim ‘kafir’
Question: What is the ruling on a Muslim that calls another Muslim kafir and publishes it? Answer: Ibn `Abidin in his Rasa’il (2:291 Sall al-Husam al-Hindi) said that a Muslim who unjustly calls another Muslim kafir commits kufr if he … Continue reading
Can an ahad hadith be used for `aqida?
Q: Does any scholar ever say that we can not take into aqeedah an ahad hadith? Continue reading
Does `aqidah change over time?
Question: Does OUR Aqeedah change from generation to generations because we have ahad hadith and mutawatir. Answer: No. Al-Hamdulillah, our `aqidah is that of the Prophet (s) and the Congregation of the Companions without change, preserved until the end of … Continue reading
Protection of the Sunnah
Q: Allah SWT says in the Quran to the nearest meaning that he has protected the Quran. Does that mean also the Hadith/Sunnah? Continue reading
Non-scholar debating without sources
Q: What is the ruling on a person that is not a scholar and has debates and while he is debating because he is not a scholar does not quote a scholar to support his views? Continue reading
Is our `aqida the same as that of the Sahaba?
Q: What is the ruling on a person that says beaware that our aqeedah is different from the Sahabah because we did not have the Prophet (s), and because of fabrications in hadith, therefore we have to be careful what we take into aqeedah, so they say accept only mutawatir hadith? Continue reading
Calling scholars names
Q: What is the ruling on the person that calls a respected scholars bad names? Continue reading
Can a non-scholar issue a fatwa?
Q: What is the ruling on the person that is not a scholar issuing fatwas? Continue reading
Belief in da`if hadith
As far as I know we have to believe 100% in every ahadith transmitted to us even though it is daeef, …but if one does not believe in it 100% what is the ruling on him? Continue reading