Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question One narration describes creation as occurring from Sunday to Friday, while a narration in Sahih Muslim from Abu Hurayra states that it began on Saturday. How can these accounts be reconciled, and how does the Quran’s reference to “six days” relate to them? Answer In the Name of Allah, […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question If Surat al-Baqara is recited in portions over three days rather than in one sitting, does one still attain its reported virtues? Answer In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate. Be at ease. Yes, you attain the virtue. There is no loss in reciting Surat al-Baqara […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Please explain Sunan Abi Dawud 2459 — is it authentic? And if a husband may restrict his wife’s voluntary worship, is he not in the wrong, since he cannot bar her from sunna or supererogatory prayer or dictate what she recites in her prayer? Answer In the Name of […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question A report in Musnad Ahmad states that two angels descend on either side of the sun at sunset and again at sunrise, calling out to people. If sunrise and sunset are one phenomenon, why a separate pair of angels for each? And does the report’s framing only work if […]