So, Sayyiduna Abu al-‘Abbas Mustaghfiri رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه fasted an entire year and then presented himself in the court of Sayyiduna Abu Hamid Misri رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه again, who then related the hadith to him.^[1]

سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه! This is passion for Islamic knowledge. This is passion for the science of Hadith. Sayyiduna Abu al-‘Abbas Mustaghfiri رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه left his home and family, and despite there being many hardships in traveling such a distance in those times, he arrived in Egypt, then he fasted for an entire year before he gained the blessing of learning the Prophetic Hadith.

O devotees of the beloved Prophet  صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم , we should also read Ahadith, listen to them, learn them, memorise them, understand them and gain the blessings of trying to convey them to others. But remember, understanding Ahadith correctly and extracting legal rulings from them is the work of expert scholars. It is our job to follow the scholarly devotees of the Prophet. Many ignorant people try to explain the Qur’anic verses and Prophetic Ahadith according to their deficient intellects; this is a very risky endeavour. It is mentioned in a noble hadith, مَنْ یَّقُلْ عَلَیَّ مَا لَمْ اَقُلْ فَلْیَتَبَوَّءْ مَقْعَدَہٗ مِنَ النَّار“Whosoever attributed to me that which I did not say, let him take his seat in the Fire.”^[2]

Easy methods of reading and understanding Ahadith

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه! Dawat-e-Islami has established Jamiat-ul-Madinas in many cities. Take out some time and enrol onto the ‘Alim Course.  Study Dars-e-Nizami online through Faizan Online Academy. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه! The academic research department of Dawat-e-Islami, al-Madinat-ul-‘Ilmiyyah (Islamic Research Centre) has prepared many Hadith books in the Urdu language. There is a booklet of Maktaba-tul-Madinah called ‘A’rabi ke