Islamic Studies

Fiqh, Hadith, Sirah, Aqidah & Akhlaq

Lessons in this course (7)

Five pillars, six articles: the frame — Both lists descend from one famous narration: Jibril came as a questioner and asked the Prophet ﷺ — what is Islam? The five practices: shahadah, salah, zakah, s…
How we know: Quran, Sunnah, and the chain — The Quran was preserved by mass memorisation and by writing from the beginning — huffaz in every generation carrying the same text the written mushaf fixes, eac…
Purification and salah: the essentials — The essentials of wudu come straight from Quran 5:6: washing the face, the arms to the elbows, wiping the head, and the feet to the ankles. The Prophet’s practi…
Zakat, sawm, and hajj: the essentials — Zakat is arithmetic, deliberately: 2.5% of qualifying wealth — cash, gold, silver, trade goods — held above the nisab for one full lunar year. The nisab is the …
Akhlaq: the lived half of the religion — The Prophet ﷺ said nothing is heavier in the believer’s scales on the Day of Judgement than good character (reported by at-Tirmidhi, graded authentic), and summ…
The four schools and why scholars differ — Hanafi (Abu Hanifa, d. 150 AH), Maliki (Malik, d. 179), Shafiʿi (ash-Shafiʿi, d. 204), Hanbali (Ahmad ibn Hanbal, d. 241). All four take the Quran and Sunnah as…
Hadith sciences: how a report is graded — Every hadith has an ISNAD (the chain of narrators) and a MATN (the text). Scholars examined both: who narrated it, whether each could have met the next, and wha…