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Hadith Analysis: The 15th of Shaban

salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader suhur suhoor sehri sehar sahur pre-dawn meal eid al-fitr eid al-adha eid ul-fitr eid ul-adha eidul fitr eidul adha bakra eid bari eid choti eid festival maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school muftis mandub mandoob mustahabb mustahab sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice dalil daleel adillah adilla proof shirk shirq mushrikin polytheism asharis ashaira asha'irah ashariyyah ash'arite akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat sahabah sahaba sahabiyyah sahabiyat madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib salafis salafism wahhabi wahabi wahhabism 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa fitnah fitan strife trial in sha allah inshallah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah al-din ad-deen ad-din

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right now okay so first of all there is a belief a common belief what is this issue Leila - mr. Schaben so the night on the 15th of Shaban which we are kind of embarking on now right so before just as we're going into this those of you just tuning in if you can like and share please I want other people to tune in and benefit insha'Allah as much as they can so just

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mix up my potions the couch or about the hoodie let's get this so this right now what is this belief so this belief is that they're the 15th night of Shaban is a very special night the on this night people ought to stand in pray Allah descends to the lowest heaven and asks people is there anybody who wants forgiveness I will forgive

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them and he goes on to forgiving them and he forgives anybody except and somebody committing idolatry mushrik or a masha anybody who's hateful so that's that's unfortunately a lot of people but putting that aside so put these two things asides on lies forgive forgiving many people in a particular hadith as many people as there are kind of strands of hair on particular animals or wool

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and fur and whether it's gonna be on a sheep or things like these kind of descriptions are mentioned in this hadith then there is an Associated belief with this that there is an Associated belief with this that on this night a book of decree is written so all the people who will die in this year so let's say from this 15 charbon to next 15 chaplain everybody who is going to die his name will be

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written in this book or according to some people there is a tree and the tree has many leaves as many kind of leaves on this tree and each leaf contains the name of every individual who is alive on earth so it's got let's say eight billion eight billion leaves on this tree now any leaf that is going to drop on this night in that sublime tree someway means that that person will die another kind of angle to this belief is that the angel of death is given a list

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molecule mote oh here mirage according to the hindu tradition a mirage yamaraja is receiving a list of all the people all the souls that he will be taking during this year so this belief is all linked with Leila to miss Fisher on the night of the nice fish upon which is also called lailatul Bharata the night of Bharata why because either Bharata from freedom from sins or bura bura

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are meaning that they are then free or linked to this death though they've this so it is called lailatul bara as well and cheb means is the Farsi Persian word for night so shabby Bharata or as is often said in all do shabby Bharat and then in the more slightly pakka fide version Chevy Barack and then just sometimes shabby rot I don't know how they say so this is what it's talking about

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night of the 15th of Shaban yes yeah mirage is the hindu version of the angel of death that's correct I am Raj the gatekeeper of hell okay so just in case he turns up right so anyway so what are we looking at so first of all let me just clarify this

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night has no significance all of these concepts that I've told you are simply superstitions folklore and false beliefs that have kind of originated and got man kind of spread right throughout the Muslim civilization with variations to them so whether it's a tree with all these leaves or whether it's the Angel of Death with this kind of checklist for this year or whether it's a book with names being put into it all of these

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things whichever version you have has reached you it is all fake okay fake news hashtag fake news people fake news none of that is happening so the good news let me give you the good news people the good news is a mirage or is not getting a list of names this is not happening Noli leaves are falling off a tree with your names on it that doesn't happen and then it would be a shame if you've changed your name throughout the year you change your name

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[Laughter] and somebody else changes it to your name so your previous name so the Angel of Death is like these idea that would be a shame and you're like so so no no trees no leaves none of that okay these are all superstitions so that's the good news the bad news is life is still finite and I guess you gotta go when you

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gotta go so that is still the bad news so I mean it doesn't mean you're gonna live forever folks so do enjoy it while you can so that's just a kind of both of you now let's get into these details there are several hadith right that have come about this now the ADI have been transmitted from many companions from up to eight companions at least transmitted these beginning with Mahadev in German radi allahu allah but of rhodiola an afterlife Narmer abu musa al-ashari

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you've got a brain and you've got a buckle on Sadiq you've got all fitna Malik you've got a share of the law and how all of these companions they are a hadith transmitted from them and one to others as well but let's take a look at these people what is going on and some people have tried to argue that there is a basis for this let's just get that out the way first some people have tried to argue so you will get people including people like Hypnotizer try to argue

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maybe not in line with that whole story of the angel of death and the death the annual death toll kind of story but this night being a virtuous night people have tried to argue for that you've got people like even at a mere people like what they mean even try to argue for it I'm so surprised being a Salafi he ought to realize the a hadith or not sahi but Unruh chakra Schmidty who taught who said that was Sahari whyatt he fought the lailatul bara I said this aji and will Chaka Shmi reclaims them to

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be sahi who also claims the hadith of the Second Coming to be sorry but this one these are not quite precise you know we will come to this one so from the Hanafy scholars mullah hussar all Hanafi in his dural tom says it's from the recommended actions say no denied no no Jane mentions it it's in the mandu bath is from the recommended actions and he mentions the hadith have been established about this okay so and a popular Hadi now first of all

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none of the sake Haines of any hadith to do with this okay not sorry not sorry Muslim Buddhahood there is a hadith in tirmidhi that not linked to the death toll the annual death toll theory nothing to do with that but about this night having some virtue and there are an odd narration in even imagine okay most of these hadith are found there's one two narrations in the Muslim of Ahmed but most of them are found outside the major books of hadith

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so bay hockey does transmit quite a few in his horrible Eman you'll find they're transmitted in certain books of zihua Eid and stuff like this but a popular one let's say even a merger I mean be happy from Cigna a little Dalaran is that either Colonel a litter miss minish minivan if it's the the middle night middle of the month night the fifteenth night of Shaban Amal a letter hawa sumo Yamaha then stunned during the night in prayer and fast during its day for in a lion's allah fear allah who Ruby

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shuns so as soon as it is sunset no it's definitely not in the mothball of Imam Malik Imam Malik was clearly against these kind of things right now in this hadith a lot descends to the low to the lowest sky at sunset and and then he says is there anybody who wants forgiveness is there anybody wants a risk I will increase your risk I will give you forgiveness I will do this I will now this particular hadith as you will see is is this is not only weak but weak

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were deemed mauled or fabricated because it's from transmitted as somebody called even abhi Saburo in the chain who is accused of fabricating and eat many other people are one variable elbows theory if no Raj of all of them considered this week but what's interesting people is even more arabe the legend from Muslim Spain audio book orignal horribie the Maliki Don says well Issa feel a let's enlistment sha'ban hadith Sonia well Holly there is not a single hadith to be relied upon in

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Laila to miss fish are burned and he says laughy fugly huh neither in its virtue one happiness still agile and neither in this death toll annual death toll theory philately toffee to alaihe do not even bother paying attention to these hadith he says and then he mentions a hadith as well he gives an example of denarii mentioning from Russia the Mossad fillet latinus that in on this night you hell of with a molecule malt Allah says to the angel of death take the names of all the souls and he says

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this is ie life ok bye and people try to base this on the verse of the Quran in manzil now feel a Latin America that we reveal this Quran on a blessed night in now kun among the rain that indeed we were to warn you fear you through kullu amrin Hakeem in solitude on that on this night every matter was set apart now they Ekrem and some other people interpreted that that in this night every matter is set apart to mean this

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annual death Theory right this annual death log theory takes place but that is not from the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but let's take a look at some of these Hadi and so one hadith is transmitted in by even if I asked him in his book and even I had burned from my eyes of Jebel radi allahu on mccool transmits it from Malik evening Hummer from Earth the hobby mentions Mahal la miel carmel echidna yamir he didn't even meet mana Khemia

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hamid this hadith is life life people die next hadith Abu Salah ba this hadith and aqua signal Hakim transmits it from maja Serafina Habib which is transmitted in tabarani and 1/2 of this not so reliable works of hadith now this hadith was signa Hakim is what did him in mind say about him Lisa be said he is not strong yeah he broke upon said he is weak Joseph Annie said he's weak if my man said his life I mean humble said his life and the

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happy said is by Eve so this is live people unreliable Hadees next hadith is transmitted from Abdullah a hammer the Sahabi this is transmitted in the books of Muslims of Ahmed even Allah hey Abdullah Saleh hey I transmits this he says hadith and I hear you've got Allah who says this is from Abu Abdullah man I'll happily write who transmits this from Abdullah a hammer right now even Allah he are ok right even Allah he are famous very famous scholar but when it came to matters of

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hadith problem me amigos probably mine Hadees you know it was a great scholar however it was a great scholar but in hadith this one big problem you know this one so yeah him love cotton yeah him decide in cotton say /a is nothing nothing this one I leave Normandy knee and after a monocle Maddie say nothing this one Lisa be shake raha be says ro Waldman ah here he transmitted monk ER I had these time-to-time Nessa I left most

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of his hadith nasai he says I only ever transmitted one rewire from him Abu Zora not even Allah he uh he used to transmit you see some people say because his books got burnt and in his later on in his life we can't rely on those hadith so do we differentiate because some people have said like even a high band did say the Abbas illa Allah Baja when he transmits from these four doulas will take from him and that was abdul IBN mubarak afterlife Nawab are to Lucknow pray and I'm to like the muslim al Qaeda

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be these four we will take but otherwise no and that's especially if it was before his books got burned however a boozer our Razi the dawn of hadith said when he was asked liar he said lie of the juubi he we do not take him as an evidence they said is this before his books were burned too after he said oh well then why lie after and not before and not after so naive right now the fourth hadith from abu musa al-ashari this is transmitted in even imagine once again even Allah here transmits this from zubeida miss lane

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from the hack from Abdul Rahman from his father right now first of all right this the the father of the Rahman is much fool and then you've got even Allah here in the chain we've already discussed so this one is problem you know on his problem next lift hadith is from Abu Hurairah this is transmitted in Bazaar many of these a hadith are in bazaar by the way right so I'm in the Salah it as well so this is transmitted from Hashem even a man from Amish from

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Abu Salah from a B horizon OD Allah one now first of all an ambush about how team says he used to you the list you the list this one would black you know a blank sometimes black it he would kind of black it sometimes so if he does the Anna Anna you have to be weary and yell it and he would mix up now here when we look this one Anna you know he does on so he doesn't say he heard but many people said look hmm you know when he transmits from Abu Salah we should just

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accept it because we don't think he blacks from Abu Salah however upon closer inspection yeah yep the Marine says AHA well when we look at his hadith as Allah he transmits yeah him mine saying the famous hadith al imam a bomb in the imam is a guarantor well Muslim Ottoman and the person of a Don who gives a done is a trustworthy reliable person a lot much transmits this from Abu Saleh however in this hadith he does Anna well um yes ma who mean a be Sania

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there was a person in the middle who he kind of he kind of just dunked him and just slightly black the chain but he got caught out on this one you know where he was a Solomon I mean this Solomon Lamas I'm just saying it doesn't mean in every chain you have to reject him but here this problem you know there's two people in the chain him and the father of the Rahman okay so let's 6th rewire from Oba karate allow on in the most honorable bazaar and in a Buddha Hussein up

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Milica Abdul Malik transmits from Mousavi Lobby them from Kozma Muhammad from either his father Oh ankle first thing is Abdul Malik ibn Abdul Malik Buhari said this one not nice you know he said this won't be another you've got a problem with this one so we can't accept Abdul Malik Abner Abdul Malik Abu hot him said as well mmm not all that is not all that so it's a problem let alone the fact that you know the uncertainty in who is transmitting Qasim is transmitting it from seventh companion

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is a fitna Moloch once again this is transmitted in the muslin of bazaar by evening LaHaye ah who transmits them from Abdul Rahman Abner and I'm from Alberta banana see right from Cathy ribbon Amara from alphab no Malik now bazaar himself who is transmitting the hadith says he says it he gives you the heads up straight away this is life so after money I mean even humble says Lisa be shy I'll hack him says he's not strong over Colonel Marazzi says moon Colonel hadith Amazon essays by by then the hadith from aisha radi allahu and

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which is in even imagine which i quoted earlier on to you guys the hadith is transmitted by her judge from jashub Nabi Kathy from or WA from Aisha this had judge people is a judge even after earth who is life motherless even mine said Lisa bill kawaii yea even as I didn't know captain said is much Luke Nasser he said is weak if Mossad said is naive and when Bihari was asked about this by thermally he asks him about this hadith he Bihari said his wife yeah yeah ABI Cathy lamb yes ma'am

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me Norma he didn't even hear from or what so people they you have this understanding there is no single hadith that is so he in this matter right now it's also interesting to know that sometimes they had these always that time sometimes it's interesting to note that even though a hadith can have many change through companions but all of them can be weak ok so take note people this night it's just a regular night in

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the book of Alvida by the Maliki Donovan or BA from Muslim Spain over a thousand years ago he transmits this from many of the early scholars of Medina that look that none of the people of Medina would give this night any preference over any other it was just the same and this and this would also apply a worker to she mentions the same thing Imam Malik also wasn't really down with just having introducing religious elements unless they were established by the Sunnah

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so that's what I would say that this night has no special virtue if somebody wants to practice something that is up to them I wouldn't condemn them you know there is a difference of opinion I accept that although none of the hadeeth asahi as I've clearly established their life and we ought to really always go with the Quran Sunnah Quran or Sunnah and be wary of just the opinions of people right so that said if people want to handle allow

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mean you know the Deen is about Rama and about accommodating for people and if people have a need and usually this is part of folklore religion and stuff like that so people need to do these kind of things that's fine I wouldn't go around condemning people at all okay they can do it it's up to them but I wouldn't advise if somebody asked me I wouldn't advise it I wouldn't advise it myself ok cool I hope that's of some help I mean well quite a bit of a session people quite a bit of a session

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