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  1. Asma Issa
    Asma Issa Islamic Scholar Certified in Quranic and Hadith studies

    Muharram is also a religious month in Islam just like three others. There is a fast in this month called the fast of Ashura. There are many references in hadith I will mention some here. Fasting in Muharram pre existed before Islam. After prophet Muhammad (PBUH) migrated to Madinah, He found that JeRead more

    Muharram is also a religious month in Islam just like three others. There is a fast in this month called the fast of Ashura. There are many references in hadith I will mention some here.

    Fasting in Muharram pre existed before Islam. After prophet Muhammad (PBUH) migrated to Madinah, He found that Jews were fasting on the same day. They gave the reason for that Sahih Albukahri 3397:

    This is a great day on which Allah saved Moses and drowned the folk of Pharaoh. Moses observed the fast on this day, as a sign of gratitude to Allah.

    That is why the prophet said to have two fasts on Muharram, a day before Ashura and the day of Ashura.

    Fast on the day before and the day after Ashura.

    In another Hadith of Sahih Muslim 1163, the Prophet Muhammad said:

    The best of fasts after Ramadan is in the Month of Allah, which you call Muharram.

    The day of Ashura is of great importance. There is another hadith of Sahih Muslims 1162 that explains that Allah forgives all sins of the previous year to have a fast on Ashura.

    I hope from Allah that fasting on the Day of Arafah expiates for the sins of the year before it and the year after it.

    It is important to know that fasting on Ashura is not compulsory but it is Sunnah. Reference from Sahih Al Bukhari:

    Fast if you wish and those who do not, are not obliged to do so.

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  1. This is not white gold, rather it is called silver that means 'Chandi'. As far as the question is concerned, yes it is permissible for men to wear a ring of silver. Anas bin Malik RA narrates that the Messenger of Allah had a silver ring that he used to wear in His right hand. [Sahih Muslim:2094, SuRead more

    This is not white gold, rather it is called silver that means ‘Chandi’. As far as the question is concerned, yes it is permissible for men to wear a ring of silver.

    Anas bin Malik RA narrates that the Messenger of Allah had a silver ring that he used to wear in His right hand. [Sahih Muslim:2094, Sunan Al-Nasayi:5212 etc.]

    Also, there is another Hadith narrated by Abdullah bin Umar RA that the Holy Prophet Peace Be Upon Him took a silver ring seeing which the companions also took silver rings to wear. [Muttafaqyn Alaih, Sahih Bukhari:5866, Sahih Muslim:2091].

    Due to such Hadiths, majority of the Scholars permits men to wear silver.

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  1. A famous Hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhmmad Peace Be Upon Him, narrated by Bara bin 'Azib [RA], answers this question. It mention that three questions are asked from each person put in the grave: Who is your Rab [Lord]? What is your religion? What do you say about this man sent to you [i.e. MuhammadRead more

    A famous Hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhmmad Peace Be Upon Him, narrated by Bara bin ‘Azib [RA], answers this question. It mention that three questions are asked from each person put in the grave:

    1. Who is your Rab [Lord]?
    2. What is your religion?
    3. What do you say about this man sent to you [i.e. Muhammad]?

    [The Hadith is a Muttafaqun ‘Alaih Sahih. Sahih Bukhari:1369, Sahih Muslim:2871, Sanan Abi Dawood:4753 etc.]

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