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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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Reflections on faith, practice, and living deliberately.
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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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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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Every Hadith on This Site: 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.
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Islamic Schools of Thought: The Complete Tree
Every major school, creed and movement in Islam, where and when it began, who carried it forward, and where it stands today. Browse it as a family tree or a timeline.
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Salafism: Origins, Beliefs and the Arguments Around It
Where the name came from, what Salafis actually believe, and what Ashʿarī, Sufi and madhhab scholars say against it. A careful look at a word heard as praise and as insult in the same masjid.
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How a Hadith Is Judged
Ṣaḥīḥ, ḥasan, ḍaʿīf, "graded by al-Albānī": what those labels on hadith citations actually mean, who decides them, how Sunni and Shia methods differ, and how to check a reference yourself.
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Following a Madhhab: Taqlīd, Ijtihād and Mixing Schools
Must a lay Muslim stick to one school? Can you switch, or take the easiest view each time? What the classical jurists, the Shia marājiʿ and modern fiqh councils actually say, with a plain guide for Muslims in Australia.
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The 15th of Shaʿbān: What the Texts Say
What the Qur'an, the hadith and the scholars actually say about the night of mid-Shaʿbān, Shab-e-Barāt, its prayers and its fast, with gradings checked and both sides heard.