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Bid'ah In The Month Of Rajab

Sh. Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (حفظه الله تعالى) was asked the following:

Question:

"There are those who single out the month of Rajab with fast; hence, is [there] anything that is confirmed [in the Sunnah to support this]?"

Answer:

The Shaikh had responded with the following:

"There is nothing that is confirmed from worship that is specifically to the month of Rajab; no fasting, no salāḥ, no 'Umrah-absolutely nothing at all specific to it.

[As for] those who are singling it out with worship, then they are the innovators since they introduced into the deen that which is not from it.

Thus, Allah and His Messenger did not legislate any specific form of worship in Rajab; no 'Umrah, no animal sacrifice, no standing [in salāḥ] in any specific night and no fasting in any specific day. Rajab is simply like any other (sacred) month.

The month of al-Muḥarram ([like Rajab) is sacred, since it is from the four sacred months.

As for singling it out with worship, then this from innovation."

Source:

Majmooah Fataawa Shaikh Sālih al-Fawzān (2/438)

Taken from: Striving For Jannah

Advice:

Rajab (the 7th month of the Lunar calendar) is one of four sacred months. Aside from this, everything you find being circulated about the virtues of Rajab is either very weak or fabricated, or innovations and superstitions which people have introduced. So if there's anything good you should increase in during this month, it would have to be forbidding the spread of such innovations.

2 - Rajab - 1444 H.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗯:

1⃣. Offering sacrifice specifically in this month

Abu Hurairah raḍhiyallāhu anhu narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: “No Far’. No ‘Ateerah.” [Bukhari & Muslim]

Both were types of sacrifices offered by the Mushriks to their false deities; Far’ being the first child of the cattle and ’Ateerah being the sacrifice offered specifically in the month of Rajab.

So those who slaughter in the month of Rajab specifically are imitating the Mushriks and disobeying the command of the Prophet ﷺ.

2⃣. Salaat Ar-Raghā’ib

This prayer is offered between Maghrib and ’Isha on the first Friday night in Rajab, and is preceded by fasting on the first Thursday of Rajab.

An-Nawawi rahimahullāh said:
“The prayer which is known as Salaat Ar-Raghā'ib, which is twelve rakahs that are offered between Maghrib and ‘Isha’ on the night of the first Friday in Rajab, and praying one hundred rakahs on the night of Nusf Shabaan (halfway through Islamic month Shabaan) are both reprehensible innovations. No one should be deceived by the fact that they are mentioned in Qoot al-Quloob and Ihya’ ‘Uloom al-Deen, or by the hadeeth which is quoted in these two books, because all of that is false. No one should be deceived by some of those Imaams who were confused about the ruling on these prayers and wrote essays stating that they are mustahabb (recommended), for they are mistaken in that. Imaam Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Isma’eel al-Maqdisi wrote a valuable book showing that they are false, and he did well in that, may Allaah have mercy on him”. [Al-Majmoo’ (3/548)]

3⃣. Fasting the entire month or most of it

People fast throughout Rajab even though fasting in Rajab is like fasting in any other month.

‘Umar raḍhiyallāhu anhu used to hit the hands of those who fasted in Rajab until they reached out for food, and he would say, This is a month which was venerated in Jāhiliyyah. [Authenticated by Sheikh Albāni in Al-Irwaa’, 957]

4⃣. Celebrating Israa' wal Mi'raaj (the night journey)

This innovation takes place on the 27th night of Rajab. There is no authentic proof that Isra’ wal Mi’raaj happened on this date according to many scholars. And even if it was proven, there is no excuse for holding celebrations on this date, because this was not reported from the Prophet ﷺ, nor was it a practice of his companions, may Allaah be pleased with them all. If it was a good thing, they would have surely preceded us.

5⃣. Visiting graves specifically in this month

Many people visit graves in Rajab with the belief that it has a good affect on the inhabitants and that it carries a greater reward, but there is nothing to prove this.

6⃣. Performing ’Umrah (known as Ar-Rajabiyyah) specifically during this month

The Prophet ﷺ never performed ‘Umrah during Rajab even though he performed ‘Umrah four times.

Sheikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (former Grand Mufti) said in his Fatāwā:
“As for singling out some of the days of Rajab for any kind of good deed, ziyaarah (visiting the House of Allaah, the Ka'bah) or anything else, there is no basis for this, because Imām Abū Shāmah stated in his book Al-Bida wal Ḥawādith: specifying acts of worship at times that were not specified by Shar’iah is wrong; no time is to be regarded as better than any other except in cases where the Shar’iah has given preference to a certain act of worship at a certain time, or stated that any good deed done at this time is better than good deeds done at other times. Hence the scholars denounced the practice of singling out the month of Rajab for doing ’Umrah frequently.”

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This is a Summarised English translation of the above article [part 1]

Nowadays Muslims have been trialled with people who issue Religious verdicts on TV, newspapers, magazines, etc., without being qualified to do so. Thus, you find their verdicts opposing the Qur'an, authentic Sunnah and the consensus of those who preceded.

One such issue where they have opposed the aforementioned sources is their permittance for women to travel without a mahram for reasons such as visiting, studies, tourism, business, to perform voluntary Hajj or Umrah, etc.

The reason for their permittance returns to the following three matters, altogether or partially:

1⃣. He looks into the books of fiqh which discuss the differences of opinion between the scholars on this topic, assuming that this differing includes all types of travel, not knowing that the scholars only differed concerning obligatory Hajj and Umrah and nothing else (i.e. Is it permissible for a woman to travel without a mahram in order to perform the obligatory Hajj or Umrah? This is where the scholars differed. Aside from this, the scholars are in agreement that women are not allowed to travel without a mahram). Then after looking into the different opinions and the arguments put forth, he may conclude that the stronger opinion is that of allowance, but due to his lack of awareness, he goes on to up generalise this allowance to include all types of travel.

2⃣. He may be aware of the concensus prohibiting women to travel without a mahram (except for the obligatory Hajj and Umrah), but he deliberately opposes it by allowing women to travel without a mahram. He does so submitting himself to people's desires in order to draw acceptance and gain a bigger following. He can fool the people and get his wishes (acceptance and popularity), but can he escape from Allah?!

3⃣. He is part of a political party seeking to win people's votes, so he is ready to tell people whatever they want to hear - even if it means opposing the Islamic sources.

Let us now clarify the issue and make everything clear:

There are two cases with relation to women travelling without a mahram:

THE FIRST CASE:
A woman travels without a Maḥram for purposes other than fulfilling the obligatory Ḥajj or ’Umrah

For example:
Travelling to visit family or friends, for the sake of studies, tourism, in order to perform voluntary Hajj or Umrah, etc.

In this case, a woman is NOT ALLOWED to travel without a mahram by agreement of all the scholars. None of them differed concerning this.

We will mention the references for this concensus in the next post inshallah.

[Part 2]

Here are some referenced quotes from those who transmitted the aforementioned concensus:

1⃣. Al-Baghawi raḥimahullāh said:

“They did not differ concerning impermissibility of women travelling without a husband or a Maḥram for purposes other than the obligatory Ḥajj, and apart from (exceptional circumstances such as) a kafir woman embracing Islam in a non-Muslim land (I.e. She is allowed to migrate to a Muslim land without a mahram) or a female prisoner who escapes her captives. Others added: or a woman who becomes detached from her travelling companions and is found by a trustworthy man; in which case he is allowed to accompany her until he brings her back to her group.”
[This was transmitted and endorsed by Ibn Ḥajar in Fat-ḥ Al-Bārī (4/90)]

2⃣. Al-Qāḍhi ’Iyāḍh raḥimahullāh said:

“They did not differ concerning the fact that she is not allowed to travel without a Maḥram for purposes other than the obligatory Ḥajj.”
[Ikmāl Al-Mu'allim Sharḥ Muslim (4/446)]

▪️This transmission of Al-Qāḍhi ’Iyāḍh was also relayed and endorsed by:
A. An-Nawawi [Sharḥ Muslim (9/112)],
B. ’Alā' Ad-deen ibnul ’Aṭṭār [Al-'Uddah fī Sharḥ Al-’Umdah (2/959)]
C. Ibnul Mulaqqin [Al-I’lām bi fawā'id ’Umdat Al-Aḥkām (6/82)]

3⃣. Al-Qurṭubi raḥimahullāh said:

“They did not differ concerning the fact that she is not allowed to travel for a non-obligatory purpose except with a Maḥram or her husband.”
[Al-Mufhim 3/450]

4⃣. Ibn Ḥajar raḥimahullāh said:

“This (ḥadīth) was used to establish the impermissibility of women travelling without a Maḥram; which is a matter of concensus - except in the case of (obligatory) Hajj and ’Umrah.”
[Fat-ḥ Al-Bārī (2/662)]

5⃣. ’Abdurraḥmān Ibn Qāsim raḥimahullāh said:

“They unanimously agreed concerning the impermissibility of a woman travelling without a Maḥram for purposes other than (obligatory) Ḥajj and ’Umrah, migrating from the lands of disbelief, and any other exceptional circumstances (ḍhurūrah); like the case of a man who finds a non-maḥram woman isolated somewhere in the open and so on, in which case he is allowed to accompany her; rather it is obligatory upon him to do so -without any differing- if he fears for her due to leaving her behind, based on the report of ’Ā'ishah (raḍhiyallāhu ’anhā) concerning the incident of Al-Ifk.”
[Ḥāshiyat Ar-Rawḍh Al-Murbi’ (3/524)]

[part 3]

THE SECOND CASE:
A woman travelling SPECIFICALLY to perform the obligatory Ḥajj

This is the issue over which the scholars have differed into two views:

The first view:
She is allowed to travel without a Maḥram provided there is safety.

Safety may be by travelling with:
A. a group of women
B. a group of trustworthy men
C. a group comprising both men and women

This view was relayed from:
’Aṭā' ibn Abi Rabāḥ, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, Qatāadah, Zuhri, Al-Ḥakam ibn ’Utaibah, Mālik, Awzā’ee, Ash-Shāfi’ee, Dawūd Adh-Dhāhiree. In fact, Ibn Baṭṭāl ascribed this view to the majority (Jumhūr). This was also the view of ’Ā'ishah raḍhiyallāhu ’anhā and Ibn ’Umar from amongst the Ṣahābah. This was also the view favoured by Sheikhul Islām Ibn Taymiyyah raḥimahullāh.

The second view:
Absolute prohibition (except in exceptional circumstances -> ḍhūrūrah)

This view was relayed from:
Ibrāhīm An-Nakh’ee, Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī, Ash-Sha’bī, Tawūs, ’Ikrimah, Abū Ḥanīfah, Sufyān Ath-Tahwrī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Is-ḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, Abū Thawr, Ibn Al-Mudhir, etc. Al-Qāḍhi ’Iyāḍh ascribed this view to the majority of Jurists amongst Ahlul-ḥadīth. This was the view of Abū Sa’eed Al-Khudri raḍhiyallāhu ’anhu from the Ṣaḥābah.

▪️Most of the contemporary scholars favoured this view; such as Sheikh ’Uthaymīn, Sheikh Ibn Bāz, Sheikh Albāni, Sheikh Muqbil, Sheikh An-Najmī raḥmatullāh ’alayhim.

And according to the supporting evidences, this view appears to be stronger than the first ‼️

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The dangers of residing amongst the disbelievers

Sheikh Yahya ḥafidhahullāh wrote:

“...Residing amongst the disbelievers contains [many] harms and dangers, the most significant of which are as follows:

1- Resembling them, as the saying goes:
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And the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever resembles a people, then he is one of them.”

Likewise, in the two Saheeh (Bukhāri & Muslim) from the hadeeth of Abu Mūsā raḍhiyallāhu ’anhu, the Prophet ﷺ said: “The example of a good companion and a bad companion is like the carrier of misk and the one who blows the bellows…” to the end of the hadeeth.

It has occurred from some of those who sit with the disbelievers that they have taken them as intimate friends, meanwhile our Lord says (translated meaning): “You will not find a people who believe in Allāh and the Last day making friendship with those who oppose Allāh and His Messenger even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their tribe...(to the end of the Āyah)” [Al-Mujaadilah: 22]

2- Residing amongst the disbelievers weakens the ghayrah (protective jealousy) within many people towards the true Deen of Allāh; that is because evil is so manifest that it seems normal to him.

3- The disbelievers control the Muslims and force them to refer to their laws of disbelief for judgement; this is seeking judgement from Tāghūt (i.e. Man-made laws).

4- The disbelievers believe they have done the Muslims a favour by giving them refuge and extending a helping hand to those who are unable to earn a living, meanwhile the Prophet ﷺ said: “The upper hand (the one that gives) is better than the lower hand (the one that takes).”

Even though they capitalise (financially) from this thorough other means, like taxes and the like, and they gain certain things, such as (1) degrading the Muslim and (2) feeling a sense of might and having done him a favour.

5- Increasing the masses of the disbelievers, although increasing the masses of the people of falsehood is prohibited. That is why the Muslims
would make hijrah to Madeenah in order to increase the masses of the Muslims and support them.

6- The disbelievers taking advantage of the Muslims by employing them in jobs that are not legislated, gradually stripping then of their religion and wasting their children. Many Muslim children in the west who have separated from their native lands have become Christians and have fallen into the most repulsive of abominations as we have pointed out in our aforementioned treatise (i.e. What I witnessed in Britain).

7- Taking away their Arabic language and their Islamic traits such that the easiest of Islamic sciences becomes difficult for them; because they educate him using a different language; since they are the ones who assign the curriculum.

8- Some of the Muslims have died in the lands of the disbelievers and left behind infants who open their eyes amongst the disbelievers so they too become disbelievers as we have mentioned in the aforementioned treatise, meanwhile Allāh says (translated meaning): “O you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones.” [At-Tahreem: 6]

And the Prophet ﷺ says: “Each one of you is a shepherd and each one of you is responsible for his
flock.”

And he ﷺ said: “There is not a slave who Allāh makes responsible for a flock then he dies while being insincere towards his flock except that he does not enter paradise…” to the end of the hadeeth.

9- Oppression of the Muslims especially when wars occur between the Muslims and the disbelievers or when something that does not please them occurs from some Muslims. You see the disbelievers oppressing the Muslims and rejoicing over their mishaps and violating their honor. And they send forward the Muslims to fight their Muslim brothers in other lands, as they did in the Iraq war and others. So if something harmful occurs it affects the Muslims within themselves while the disbelievers give the orders.”