Hadith Lessons: Sit Down
It is related on the authority of Awf ibn Malik al-Asjai that he said, “We were in the company of the Messenger of Allah, nine, eight, or seven of us, when he; said, ‘Will you not pledge your allegiance to the Messenger of Allah?’
The Birth of the Ottoman Empire
According to the political philosophy of Ibn Khaldun, empires have lifespans like humans. They are born, grow, reach maturity, and then decline and die. Understanding the infancy of empires is crucial to understanding why an empire became powerful ..
Do I need to follow one of the four schools of thought?
If the answer is in the affirmative, how do we account for this considering that these schools of thought were established much later than the Prophet?