A MADINAN VIEW OF THE SUNNAH COURTESY WISDOM BATTLES AND HISTORY pdf

A Madinan View On The Sunnah Courtesy Wisdom Battles And History by Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani

A MADINAN VIEW OF THE SUNNAH COURTESY WISDOM BATTLES AND HISTORY

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Historically the Companions, i.e. the Muhajirun and Ansar of Madinah, are the single most remarkable phenomenon in history:

an entire social order which accepted without reservation the revelation granted by Allah, exalted is He, to the last of His Prophets, and embodied it in action and life, in prayer and battle, and the marketplace.

Historical testimony to the extraordinary nature of that community comes from their conquest of the Persian Empire and truncation of the Byzantine, the two great tyrannical enslaving empires of their time. That a small group of poorly armed and underfed people should have overthrown both of them was unthinkable until it had happened, and remains inexplicable to those incapables of recognizing the decree of Allah and His favors to His slaves.

 Among the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, there is no disputing the pre-eminence of the emigrants from Makkah and the inhabitants of Madinah.

They took his practice directly from him, they preserved it in action and practice, they continued to learn it and teach it among themselves during his life and after his death and then they transmitted it to succeeding generations.