Category Archives: Salaf

Updated Salaf Quiz

Posted on Fri 10 Rajab 1443AH 11-2-2022AD by islamtees

Try the quiz here: https://islamtees.uk/quizzes/salaf-quiz/ Note: the original quiz (cover screen shown above) was developed years ago (24/06/2012) with a couple of the questions having a drag and drop/match answer. That version of the quiz only works on Windows Desktop … Continue reading →

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The Scholars Are Our Elders

Posted on Fri 6 Shaban 1442AH 19-3-2021AD by islamtees

Ibn Mas’ud (رضي الله عنه‏) said, “the people will continue to be upon goodness so long as they take knowledge from the Companions of the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and from their elders but if they take the knowledge … Continue reading →

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The Reasons for Disunity – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan

Posted on Mon 26 Jumada Al Akhira 1442AH 8-2-2021AD by islamtees

Posted in Salaf | Tagged Aqeedah, dawah, disunity, enjoining the good, fawzaan, fawzan, follow the salaf, forbidding the evil, manhaj, methodology, way of the salaf | Leave a comment

Poetry: “…Opinion is (like) Night and Hadeeth is (like) Day…” – A Reminder to Reflect upon

Posted on Sat 24 Jumada Al Akhira 1442AH 6-2-2021AD by islamtees

Posted in Hadith, Salaf | Tagged academic, Al-Khateeb Al-Baghdaadee, analogy, aql, asharis, Deobandis, hadeeth, hadith, intellectual, kalaam, kalam, mu'tazilah, Mutakallimeen, Māturīdees, naql, night, opinion, philosopher, philosophy, poem, poetry, rhetoric, sufis, theological rhetoric, theology, thinker | Leave a comment

In The Shadows of The Mountains of Knowledge Conference – Lecture Audios Available

Posted on Tue 20 Jumada Al Akhira 1442AH 2-2-2021AD by islamtees

All the lectures from the highly beneficial and insightful conference titled, In the Shadow of the Mountains of Knowledge are now available. Some of the Imams, Salaf and ‘Ulema covered include: Al-Imām Sufyān At-Thawri رحمه الله Muhammad bin Sireen رحمه … Continue reading →

Posted in Salaf | Tagged Abdulilah Lahmami, abu hakeem, Abu Idrees, abu iyaad, Abu Khadeejah, Abu Muadh, albani, amjad rafiq, bilal davis, Conference, Hasan Somali, Ibn Sireen, Ibn Taymiyyah, Lives of the Salaf, madkhali, mountains of knowledge, muqbil, salaf, salafi, salafi conference, salafi lecture, salafi publications, salafi sounds, salafi talk, spubs, Sufyan at-Thawri, Taqweem Aslam, Uways Taweel, way of the salaf | Leave a comment

“How Will You Be When the Trials and Tribulations Befall you…”

Posted on Mon 19 Jumada Al Akhira 1442AH 1-2-2021AD by islamtees

Posted in Salaf, Warnings | Tagged 'Abdullah Ibn Masood, Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, fitan, fitnah, sahabi, salaf, trials, tribulations | Leave a comment

A Narration Concerning Imaam Al-Awzaa’ee (d. 157H, rahimahullah) from the Book “Mountains of Knowledge”

Posted on Fri 16 Jumada Al Akhira 1442AH 29-1-2021AD by islamtees

Posted in Salaf | Tagged abu hakeem, abu iyaad, Abu Khadeejah, Abu Talha Dawood Burbank, Al-Awzaa'ee, amjad rafiq, athar, athari, awzaaee, bilal davies, Dawood Burbank, follow the salaf, great imams, imams salaf, manhaj, manhaj salaf, mountains of knowledge, salaf, salafi, salafi publications, salafiyyah, spubs, way of the salaf | Leave a comment

Eemaan Booster – Reading the Life-Histories of the Salaf of this Ummah

Posted on Sun 5 Jumada Al Oula 1442AH 20-12-2020AD by islamtees

Reflect upon this reported story regarding the interaction between the Abbassid caliph, al-Mu’tasim, and the great Imaam, Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (rahimahullah), during the mihna (trial/inquisition) that occurred in Islamic history. Ibn Abee Ya’laa reports in his Tabaqaatul-Hanaabilah [with the verification … Continue reading →

Posted in Aqidah, Imaan, Salaf | Tagged eemaan, eemaan booster, innovation, jahmiyyah, mihna, mu'tasim, speech of Allah, trial, uncreated | Leave a comment

The word Salafi is not a New Term, it Has Been around for Many Centuries

Posted on Mon 22 Rabi Al Thani 1442AH 7-12-2020AD by islamtees

As-Sam’aanee (d.562H) said in al-lnsaab (3/273): “As-Salafi: this is an ascription to the Salaf and following their ways, in that which is related from them.” lbn al-Atheer (d.630H) said in al-Lubaab fee Tahdheebul-lnsaab (2/162), commenting upon the previous saying of … Continue reading →

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Serious Reflection: “Hold fast to the Narrations of the Salaf even if the People were to Abandon you”

Posted on Wed 14 Dhul Qidah 1440AH 17-7-2019AD by islamtees

Serious reflection, especially in these times! Classic statement by Imam al-Awzaa’ee (rahimahullah): “Hold Fast to the Narrations of the Salaf even if the People were to Abandon You…”

Posted in Advice, Salaf, Warnings | Tagged Ahl al-Kalaam, aql, ashari, athaar, athar, awzaaee, awzai, falsafah, imam, intellectual, kalam, kalam cosmological argument, Mohammed Hijab, mu'tazilah, narration, narrations, opinion, opinions, philosophy, predecessors, reason, salaf, salafi, salafis, Salafus Saalih, salih, thinker, thought | Leave a comment

The Salafus-Salih warned against ‘ilm al-Kalam and its people

Posted on Mon 5 Dhul Qidah 1440AH 8-7-2019AD by islamtees

Advice Regarding Hamza Tzortzis and Company (iERA): Part 1 – IntroductionPart 2 – The Usool of al-Jahm bin Safwan and Ahl al-KalaamPart 3 – Ibn Taymiyyah on the Path of Ahl al-Kalaam, Their Greatest Foundation and Its ConsequencesPart 4 … Continue reading →