Five Fornicators and Five Rulings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFive persons, who had committed fornication, were brought before Umar, who ordered them to be subjected to the legal punishment for the crime. At that […]
Greater Sins ( Gunah e Kabeera)
Religion-Selling by Samurah
Reading Time: 2 minutesSamurah Ibn Jundab was of the inhabitants of Basrah. After his father’s death, he accompanied his mother to Madinah, where she married Mary Ibn Shaiban […]
Behlool and the Thief
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhenever Buhul happened to have money in excess of his expenses, he used to save it by concealing it in one corner of a ruined […]
The Bedouin’s Camel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSheikh Tawoos al-Haramain narrates: “I had been standing near Masjid al-Haram in Makkah when I witnessed a Bedouin advancing on his camel. When he reached […]
The Imam and the Thief’s Confession
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA person approached Imam ‘Ali (as) and confessed that he had committed a theft. “Are you able to recite something from the Noble Qur’an?” Imam […]
Zainab the Great Liar
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the caliphate of Mutawakkil ‘Abbasi, a woman claimed that she was Zainab, the daughter of Fatimah Al-Zahra (as). “Years have passed since the time […]
Hunger and Lies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAsma Bint ‘Umais, reported: “On the night of ‘Aishah’s marriage with the Noble Prophet (S), a few ladies and I were with her, dressing her […]
Walid Ibn ‘Uqbah
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbi Mu’eet Walid Ibn ‘Uqbah was a Muslim who initially appeared to be such a righteous individual that the Noble Prophet (S) even assigned him […]
The Indian and the Sixth Imam
Reading Time: 4 minutesImam Kadhim (as) narrates: “One day, I was with my father in the house when a friend entered and told my father that some people […]
The Caliph’s Food
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce, in a gathering of Harun Rashid (the fifth ‘Abbasid Caliph), which included a number of aristocrats, the conversation drifted towards Buhul and his insanity. […]