Deen
Zakat in Practice
Who owes zakat, on what, and how much: the gold and silver thresholds, jewellery, shares and super, giving to family, Twelver khums, and paying in Australia, with a calculator.
Deen
The Islamic Calendar and Its Sacred Days
Why the Islamic year is lunar and drifts through the seasons, how ʿUmar came to count from the Hijra, which days in the year matter and why, and why your app and your mosque can disagree by a day.
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Hajj and ʿUmra
What the pilgrimage is, rite by rite and day by day from Jābir's account of the Prophet's Hajj, where the schools differ, and how to get there from Australia through Nusuk without being scammed.
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Deen: Start Here
Every Deen article in one place. Search them, filter by topic, or follow a reading path from the Qur'an and the Prophet ﷺ through hadith and the schools to money and Islam in Australia.
operations
The First Ninety Days on 9.1
You upgraded and nothing changed. Most estates land on the platform and keep operating exactly as before. Here's the sequence I'd work through instead.
Deen
The People Around Muhammad ﷺ: Companions, Wives and Family
Who the Companions were and how they are remembered, with 131 detailed profiles of his wives, children, family and Companions: their families, work, lives, what they did and how they related to the Prophet ﷺ.
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Muhammad ﷺ: A Life
The life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from the sources: his family, the Meccan and Medinan years, every major event, the people around him and the hard questions, with an interactive timeline, a family tree and a full bibliography.
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The Qur'an: What It Is, How It Came Down, and How It Was Kept
A guide for anyone curious about the Qur'an: the world it came into, how it was revealed over 23 years, how it was written down and kept, why Muslims say not one word has changed, and a tour of all 114 chapters.
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The Hadith Behind These Articles: An Index
The hadith that carry the arguments in the Deen articles, in one searchable list: a short summary, the narrator, the grade sunnah.com shows and who gave it, and links back to the articles that rely on it.
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The People Behind the Hadith: Narrators, Chains and How They Were Judged
Who carried the hadith, and how were they judged? The isnād, the generations, the language of narrator criticism, Sunni and Shia rijāl, and five real chains you can tap through.
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The Hadith Collections: A Complete Tree
Every major hadith collection, Sunni, Shia, Zaydī and Ibāḍī, with who compiled it, when and where, how it reached us, how big it is and how its own tradition rates it. Browse as a tree or a timeline.
lifecycle
Bring Your Own Licence Is No Longer Optional
VMware on Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle has moved to BYOL, with deadlines. The nearest one is 31 October. And it quietly changes how you should compare clouds.