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CONTENTS

QUR’ĀN KARĪM

HADĪTH SHARĪF

CLASSICS OF MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY BY:

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī

Imām al-Ghazālī

Imām al-Habīb ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād

Imām al-Habīb Ahmad Mash-hūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād

Rady Allāhu ‘Anhum

CLASSICS OF MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY ON:

‘Aqīda (Muslim Beliefs and Convictions)

Sharī‘ah and Fiqh (sacred Muslim law and jurisprudence)

Dhikr and Du‘ā (Remembrance of Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā and Supplications to Him)

Tawassul (Supplicating to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā through various means)

Nūr u’n Nabī, Mawlid u’n Nabī and Sīrat u’n Nabī Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam

(The Light of Prophet Muhammad, Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, his Birth, History and Biography)

Qasāid al-Madīh (Muslim Religious Poetry)

Salawāt and Salām (Blessings and Salutations on Prophet Muhammad, Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam)

SOME MORE ANCIENT CLASSICS

AN-NAHW (ARABIC GRAMMAR)

ORAL TRADITION

JOURNALS

RELATED WEB PAGES

 

REFERENCES

QUR’ĀN KARĪM

Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘Azīm (Commentary on the Magnificent Qur’ān), by Imām Jalāl ad-Dīn ‘Abd al-Rahmān as-Suyūtī and Imām Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahallī, Dār al-Fikr, Beirut, 1419/1998.

Translation of the Qur’ān by Professor Shāh Farīdul Haque, based on the Urdu translation by Imām Ahmad Razā Khān, Dār al-‘Ulūm Amjadia, Karachi, 1988.

Concordance of the Qur’ān by Shaykh Muhammad Fuād ‘Abd al-Bāqī, Al-Mu‘jam al-Mufahras li-alfāz al-Qur’ān al-Karīm (The Concordance of the Noble Qur’ān), Dār al-Hadīth, Cairo, 1417/1996.

Du‘ā’ (Supplication) after the completion of the recitation of the Qur’ān by Imām ‘Alī Zayn al-‘Abidīn ibn Husayn ibn ‘Alī, Rady Allāhu ‘Anhu, in Al-Majmū‘ (The Compendium), p. 46-63, Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore, 1350 A.H.

 

HADĪTH SHARĪF

Imām Muhammad bin ‘Īsā at-Tirmidhī, Ash-Shamāil al-Muhammadiyyah (The Noble Qualities and High Moral Attributes of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1416/1996.

Imām Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā bin Sharaf an-Nawawī, Riyād u’s-Sālihīn min Kalāmi Sayyid i’l Mursalīn (The Gardens of the Righteous, in the words of the Master of all the Prophetic Messengers), Manār li’n nashr wa’t tawzī‘, Damascus, 1422/2001.

Imām Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā bin Sharaf an-Nawawī, Al-Arba‘īn an-Nabawiyyah (Forty Sayings of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), Haji Mohamed and Sons, Mombasa, n.d.

Imām Ahmad ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī, Fath al-Bārī (Victory of the Creator, Commentary on Sahīh al-Bukhārī), translations of selections from it by Shaykh ‘Abdal Hakīm Murād, Muslim Academic Trust, Cambridge, U.K, 1421 A.H/ 2000.

Imām Abū Bakr Ahmad al-Bayhaqī, Shu‘ab al-īmān, abridged by Imām al-Qazwīnī, translated as The Seventy Seven Branches of Faith, by Shaykh ‘Abdal Hakīm Murād, The Quilliam Press, Buckinghamshire, England, 1990.

Imām as-Sayyid ‘Alawī ibn as-Sayyid ‘Abbās al-Mālikī, Fath al-Qarīb al-Mujīb ‘alā tahdhīb at-targhīb wa’t tarhīb (A Victory Near at Hand), Sahr Publishers, Jeddah, 1403/ 1983.

Shaykh Hasan Muhammad Shaddād bin ‘Umar Bā ‘Umar, Al-Hawd al-Mawrūd bi-kulli Hadīth Mawrūd fi’s-Salāti wa’s-Salāmi ‘alā Bahjati’l Wujūd Sayyidinā Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam (A Spring of Water: Sources of Hadīth about the invocation of blessings and salutations on the Joy of Existence, Sayyidinā Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him), Maktaba al-Mutī‘ī, Cairo, 1998.

Hadyu Muhammad (The Guidance of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), Iqra Publications, Memon Jamat Nairobi, 1410/1989.

 

CLASSICS OF MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY BY:

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī

Futūh al-Ghayb (Revelations of the Unseen), translated by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Florida, 1992.

Al-Fath ar-Rabbānī (The Sublime Revelation), tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Houston, 1992. Also tr. by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Akīlī, Pearl Publishing House, Philadelphia, 1990.

Jalā’ al-Khawātir (The Removal of Cares), tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Florida, 1997. Also tr. by Professor Shetha al-Dargazelli and Dr. Louay Fatoohi, Alminar Books, Philadelphia, 1999; also published by A.S. Noordeen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1999.

Al-Ghunya li-tālibi tarīq al-Haqq (Sufficient Provision for Seekers of the Path of Truth), tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1997.

Sirr al-Asrār (The Secret of Secrets), interpreted by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, The Islamic Text Society, Cambridge, England, 1992.

Malfūzāt (Talks and Sayings), tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Houston, 1992.

Khamsata ‘Ashara Maktūban (Fifteen Letters), tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Florida, 1997.

 

Imām Abū Hāmid Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ghazālī

Ihyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1417/1996.

It also contains Ta‘rīf i’l Ihyā’ bi Fadāil i’l Ihyā’ (Introducing the Ihyā’ with the Virtues of the Ihyā’), by Al-Habīb ‘Abd al-Qādir bin Shaykh AbūBakr bin Shaykh ‘AbdAllāh al-‘Aydarūs, and

Takhrīj mā fi’l Ihyā’ min al-Akhbār (Identification of the Hadīth in the Ihyā’), by Shaykh Hāfiz al-‘Irāqī.

Kitāb riyādat al-nafs (On Disciplining The Soul), and Kitāb Kasr al-Shahwatayn (On Breaking The Two Desires), Books 22 and 23 of Ihyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn (The Revival of Religious Sciences), tr. by Shaykh ‘Abdal Hakīm Murād, The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 1995.

Kitāb dhikr al-mawt wa mā ba‘dahū (The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife),
tr. of Book 40 of the Ihyā’ by Shaykh ‘Abdal Hakīm Murād, The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 1995.

Kitāb ādāb an-nikāh (The Proper Conduct of Marriage in Islām), Book 12 of the Ihyā’, tr. by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Florida, 1998.

Bidāya al-Hidāyah (The Beginning of Guidance in Islām), Al-Azhar, Cairo, 1374/1955.

 

Imām Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād

An-Nasāih ad-Dīniyya wa’l Wasāya al-Īmāniyya (Sincere Religious Advices and Counsels of Faith), Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1413/1992.

Ad-Da‘wah at-Tāmmah wa’t Tadhkirah al-‘Āmmah (The All-Out Call to Islām and a General Admonition), Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1414/1994. Translated in Malaysian as Dakwah Yang Sampurna Peringatan Yang Utama, by Syed Ahmad Semait, Pustaka Nasional, Singapore, 2000.

Risālah al-Mu‘āwanah (The Book of Assistance), Maktaba al-‘Alawiyya al-Islāmiyya, Mombasa, n.d; tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Quilliam Press, London, 1989.

Sabīl al-Iddikār (The Lives of Man), Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1413/1993; tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Quilliam Press, London, 1991.

Ithāf as-sāil bi-jawābi’l masāil (Gifts For the Seeker, Being Some Answered Questions), Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1414/1993; tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Quilliam Press, London, 1992.

Al-Fusūl al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l Usūl al-Hikamiyyah (Knowledge and Wisdom), tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Starlatch Press, Chicago, 2001.

Risālah al-Mudhākarah, and Risālah Ādāb Sulūk al-Murīd (Mutual Reminding and Good Manners), Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1414/1994; tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Starlatch Press, Chicago, 2002.

 

Imām al-Habīb Ahmad Mashhūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād

Miftāh al-Jannah, Dār al-Hāwī, Beirut, 1416/1995. Translated by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī as the Key to the Garden, The Quilliam Press, London, 1990. Also translated as The Key to Paradise, by Shaykh Mohamed Mlamali Adam, reprinted by Memon Jamat, Nairobi, 1409/1989.

Manba‘ al-Imdād (The Fountain of Help), being a compilation of the talks and teachings of Imām al-Habīb Ahmad Mashhūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād, given over the period 1407-1410 A.H. in Kenya, compiled by his grandson As-Sayyid Muhammad bin Mustafā, Mombasa, Kenya, 1421 A.H.

 

CLASSICS OF MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY ON:

‘Aqīda (Muslim Beliefs and Convictions)

Imām al-A‘zam Imām Abū Hanīfa, Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (The Greater Jurisprudence), in Majmū‘a ‘Aqāidiyya li-ba‘di ‘ulamā’ Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l Jamā‘ah, a compendium of Muslim Beliefs as explained by Sunnī Imāms such as Imām Abū Hanīfa, Shaykh ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr as-Sakrān, Imām Burhān ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Hārūn al-Laqānī, Imām ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād, and Shaykh Ahmad Marzūq, Iqra’ Islamic Publications, Toronto, 1421/2001.

Imām Burhān ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Hārūn al-Laqānī, Jawharatu’t Tawhīd (The Book on the Pearls of Monotheism), translated with commentary as The Tenets of Islām, by Moulavi M. H. Babu Sahib, Majlis Ugama Islām Singapura, Singapore, 2000.

Sayyidunā al-Imām al-Habīb ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād, Aqīda al-Islām (Muslim Beliefs in the Pillars of Islām), Chapter 17 in Miftāh al-Jannah (Key to the Garden), of Sayyidunā al-Imām al-Habīb Ahmad Mashhūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād, tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Quilliam Press, London, 1990. Reprinted by Iqra’ Islamic Publications, with the English translation as well as an Urdu translation by Sayyid ‘Abd al-Mun‘im an-Nadhīr, and a Somali translation by Shaykh Ahmad Yūsuf Du‘āle, 1416/1996, Toronto.

Al-Habīb ‘Umar bin Ahmad bin AbīBakr bin Sumayt, ‘Aqīda al-Īmān (Muslim Beliefs in the Pillars of Faith), with a sharh (appreciative explanation) titled Hidāya al-Ikhwān (Guidance for Muslim Brethren), by Shaykh Fadl bin Muhammad Bā Fadl at-Tarīmī, Al-Maktaba al-‘Alawiyya al-Islāmiyya, Mombasa, Kenya, 1380/1960.

 

Sharī‘ah and Fiqh (Sacred Muslim Law and Jurisprudence)

Shaykh al-Hasan bin ‘Ammār al-Misrī ash-Shurunbulālī al-Hanafī, Nūr al-Īdāh wa Najāt al-Arwāh, with a sharh (appreciative explanation) in Arabic by Abū Zayd Shilbī of Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 1377 A.H., 1958. Published in Istanbul, 1996. Translated as Salvation of the Soul and Islamic Devotions, by Professor Muhammad A. Quasem, Department of Theology and Philosophy, National University of Malaysia, n.d. (On Hanafī fiqh).

Al-Habīb Imām Ahmad bin Zayn al-Habshī, Risālah al-Jāmi‘ah, translated with the title Essentials of Islām, by ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Ahmad, Wise Muslim Publications, Wembley, 1993. (On Shāfi‘ī fiqh).

Imām al-Habīb Muhammad bin Husayn bin ‘Abdallāh al-Habshī, Fath u’l Ilāh (The Victory of God), Egypt, 1328 A.H., republished in Singapore, 1412/1992. (On Shāfi‘ī fiqh).

Al-Habīb Zayn bin Ibrāhīm bin Zayn bin Sumayt, Hidāya at-Tālibīn fī bayān-i muhimmāt i’d-Dīn (Guidance for Seekers in Important Matters of Religion), Dār al-Fiqh, Tarīm, Hadramawt, 1420/1999. (On Shafi‘ī fiqh).

Shaykh Muhammad ‘AbdAllāh bin Shaykh al-Husaynī al-Hadramī, Risālah al-Hajj al-Mabrūr wa’s Sa‘yi’l Mashkūr (A Treatise on an Accepted Hajj and an Appreciated Sa‘y , n.d. (On Shafi‘ī fiqh).

Mawlānā Muhammad ‘Abdul ‘Alīm Siddīqī al-Qādirī, Elementary Teachings of Islām, Millat Book Centre, Delhi, n.d. (On Hanafī fiqh).

Mawlānā Muhammad ‘Abdul ‘Alīm Siddīqī al-Qādirī, The History of the Codification of Islamic Law, Anjuman Sunnat wa’l Jamā‘at, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1950.

 

Dhikr and Du‘ā (Remembrance of Allāh and Supplications to Him)

Imām Muhyiddīn Abū Zakariyya Yahyā Sharaf an-Nawawī, Al-Adhkār, a compendium of the supplications of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam for all occasions, al-Maktaba ath-Thaqāfīya, Beirut, 1983.

Imām Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ghazālī, Kitāb al-Adhkār wa’l Da‘awāt (Invocations and Supplications), Book 9 of the Ihyā’, published as Ad-Da‘awāt al-Mustajāba (Supplications that are Answered by Allāh), Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, 1405/1985.

As-Sayyid Ismā‘īl ibn Muhammad Sa‘īd al-Qādirī, Al-Fuyūdāt ar-Rabbāniyya, Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, n.d. (A Compendium of Invocations and Supplications of Ghawth al-A‘zam Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī). Translated as Emanations of Lordly Grace, by Shaykh Muhtar Holland, Al-Baz Publishing, Florida, 1421/2000.

Hadrat Mulla ‘Alī al-Qārī, Hizb al-A‘zam (The Great Supplication), Taj Company, Karachi, n.d.

Shaykh Abī Bakr bin Sālim al-Husaynī, Awrād wa Da‘awāt (Regular Voluntary Invocations and Supplications), Matba‘a al-Madanī, Mombasa, 1390/1970.

Qutb al-Anfās Al-Habīb al-Imām ‘Umar bin ‘AbdurRahmān al-‘Attās, Rātib al-‘Attās, tr. by Professor Sayyid Muhammad Naqīb bin ‘Alī al-‘Attās, as ‘Azīz u’l Manāl (The Rare Gift), Masjid Bā ‘Alawī, Singapore, 1999.

Al-Habīb as-Sayyid ‘Alawī bin Muhammad bin Tāhir al-Haddād, Wasīlat u’l ‘ibād ilā zādi’l ma‘ād (A Means for People to Provide for the Hereafter), being a Compendium of Invocations and Supplications of Qutb al-Irshād al-Habīb al-Imām ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād, Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, 10^th edition, 1397/1977.

Shihāb al-Dīn Imām Ahmad bin al-Hasan bin ‘Abdallāh al-Haddād, Sharh Rātib al-Haddād (An Appreciative Explanation of Rātib al-Haddād), published under the supervision of Shaykh Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Zayn bin Sumayt, Pustaka Nasional Singapura, Singapore, 1417/1997.

The Prophetic Invocations, Compiled by Imām ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād, being a translation, transliteration and commentary on Rātib al-Haddād, and Wird al-Latīf, by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī with a Foreword by Shaykh Hamza Yūsuf, The Starlatch Press, Illinois, 2000.

As-Sayyid al-Habīb Tāhir bin Husayn bin Tāhir, Al-Maslak al-Qarīb li-kulli sālik munīb (The Near and Dear Way For Every Repentant Seeker), al-Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, n.d.

Al-Habīb as-Sayyid ‘Abdallāh bin Mustafā bin Hasan al-‘Aydarūs, Mukhkhul ‘Ībādah li Ahl i’s Sulūk wa’l Irāda (The Essence of Worship for Intending Spiritual Travellers), being a Compendium of Invocations and Supplications of ‘Alawī mashāyikh, n.d.

Imām Abu’l Hasan ash-Shādhilī, Hizb al-Bahr (The Recital of the Sea), and Hizb an-Nasr (The Supplication of Help from Allah), in Shawāriq al-Anwār min Ad‘iyati’s Sādati’l Akhyār (Brilliant Burst of Morning Sunlight in the Supplications of the Noble Spiritual Elite), compiled by As-Sayyid Imām Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī al-Hasanī, n.d.

As-Sayyid Imām Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī al-Hasanī, Abwāb u’l Faraj (Doors of Freedom from Sorrow), n.d.

As-Sayyid Imām Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī al-Hasanī, Durū‘ul Wiqāyah bi Ahzābi’l Himāya (Armours of Protection for Security Forces), Dār Wahdān li’t-Tabā‘ah, 1414. This compendium contains selected chapters and verses from the Holy Qur’ān as well as supplications of many of the Awliyā’ Allāh (Friends of Allāh) and the sālihīn (pious), such as:

Imām Zayn al-‘Abidīn ibn Husayn ibn ‘Alī,

Imām Abū Hanīfa,

Imām Shāfi‘ī,

Sayyidinā Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī,

Imām al-Ghazālī,

As-Sayyid Ahmad ar-Rifā‘ī,

Sayyidinā al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam Muhammad bin ‘Alī Bā ‘Alawī,

Imām an-Nawawī,

Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyiddīn ibn al-‘Arabī,

Shaykh Abī Bakr bin Sālim Bā ‘Alawī,

Imām ‘AbdAllāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād,

Imām Abu’l Hasan ash-Shādhilī,

As-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ad-Dusūqī,

As-Sayyid Ahmad Badawī,

Imām Muhammad bin Yūsuf as-Sanūsī,

Shaykh Bā Sawdān,

Shaykh al-Habīb Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Mihdār, and

Sayyid Muhammad bin ‘Aydarūs al-Habshī,

may Allāh be pleased with them all, Āmīn.

Shaykh Muhyiddīn bin ‘Abd ar-Rahmān bin Muhammad az-Zanzibārī, Al-Adhkār wa’l Awrād (Regular Voluntary Supplications and Invocations), compiled with the ijāza (permission) of al-Habīb Imām Ahmad Mashhūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād, and with a Concluding Note by Shaykh as-Sayyid ‘Umar bin ‘AbdAllāh āl Shaykh Abū Bakr bin Sālim, Zanzibar, 1405/1985. Reprinted by Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore.

Shaykh Hasan Muhammad Shaddād bin ‘Umar Bā ‘Umar, Kayfiyyah al-Wusūl li Ru’yati Sayyyidina’r Rasūl Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, various supplications to help us see our Master, Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam in our dreams, al-Maktaba al-Mutī‘ī, 1412/1991.

Al-‘Allāmah Al-Ustādh Muhammad Sharīf Sa‘īd al-Beidh, Ad‘iya Thuluth al-Layl al-Akhīr wa Wird al-Latīf, Supplications to Allāh before and after Fajr Salāh together with Wird al-Latīf, Vijāna wa Īmān, Mambrui, Kenya, n.d.

Qārī Ridā al-Mustafā A‘zamī, Majmū‘ah Wazāif, a Compendium of Regular Voluntary Supplications, with Urdu translation, Dār al-‘Ulūm Amjadiya, Maktaba Ridwiyya, Karachi, 1398/1978.

Nūruddīn ibn Shaykh Husayn Mahmūd al-Ghasānī ash-Shādhilī, ‘Abd al-Qādir fī Īdāhi’t Tasawwuf (Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī in Clarifying Tasawwuf), Maktaba al-Bābī al-Halabī, Cairo, 1392/1972.

Qasāid adh-Dhikr li-Ahl al-Qādiriyya (Religious Poetry among the Qādiriyya), Vol I and II, Iqra’ Islamic Publications, Toronto, 1417/1997.

 

Tawassul (Supplicating to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā Through Various Means)

Majmū‘a Mubāraka fī Asmā’ Allāh i’l-Husnā wa fī Asmā i’n-Nabī Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam (A Blessed Compendium of The Most Beautiful Names of Allāh, and the Noble Attributive Names of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), consisting of instructive poems which invoke Allāh through the means of Asmā’ Allāh by:

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī,

Imām Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl an-Nabhānī,

As-Sayyid Ahmad ad-Dardīr,

Shaykh Muhammad bin ‘Alī al-Makkī,

Shaykh Hasan bin Muhammad Shaddād ‘Umar Bā ‘Umar,

Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rahmān Sūfī bin Shaykh ‘AbdAllāh,

Shaykh Qāsim bin Muyiddīn al-Qādirī al-Barāwī,

Shaykh Mustafā Rushdī bin Ismā‘īl ad-Dimashqī,

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Umawī,

and by an anonymous Shaykh;

as well as an instructive poem which is a supplication to Allāh through the means of Asmā’ an-Nabī by:

Shaykh Mustafā Rushdī bin Ismā‘īl ad-Dimashqī.

Iqra’ Islamic Publications, Toronto, 1424/2003.

Shaykh Mustafā Rushdī bin Ismā‘īl ad-Dimashqī, Jabr u’l kasr fī nazm Asmā’ Ahl Badr (Mending the Broken: An Instructive Poem on the names of the Companions of the

Battle of Badr), Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, 1308.

These are supplications to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā in separate religious poems through the means of:

Asmā’ Allāh al-Husnā: The Most Beautiful Names of Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā,

Asmā’ an-Nabī: the Noble Attributive Names of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam,

Asmā’ i’s suwar: the Noble Names of the chapters of the Holy Qur’ān,

Asmā’ Ahl Badr: the Noble Names of the Companions of the Battle of Badr, and

Asmā’ Shuhadā’ Uhud: the Noble Names of the Martyrs of the Battle of Uhud.

Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Qādirī, At-Tawassul, in Jawhar u’n Nafīs (The Most Precious Pearls), compiled by Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rahmān bin Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Alī al-Qādirī, Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām Delhi, n.d. First published in Cairo, 1383/1964.

This is a supplication to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā in a religious poem through the means of:

all the Prophets, may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon them;

the Family and Companions of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam;

the Awliyā’ Allāh (Friends of Allāh), and the sālihīn (the pious).

Al-Habīb al-Imām Muhammad bin Zayn bin Sumayt al-‘Alawī, Al-Wasīlatu’l ‘Azīmah (Tremendous Means), in Al-Adhkār wa’l Awrād (Regular Voluntary Supplications), compiled by Shaykh Muhyiddīn bin ‘Abd ar-Rahmān bin Muhammad az-Zanzibārī, Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore, 1405/1985.

This is a supplication to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā in a religious poem through the means of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, his Family and descendants, and his Companions, may Allāh be pleased with them all, Āmīn.

Du‘ā at-Tawassul, in Shawāriq al-Anwār (Brilliant Burst of Morning Sunshine), compiled by As-Sayyid Imām Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī al-Hasanī, n.d.

This is a supplication to Allāh Subhānahū wa Ta‘ālā through the medium of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam.

 

Nūr u’n Nabī, Mawlid u’n Nabī, and Sīrat u’n Nabī Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam (The Light of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, his Birth, History and Biography)

Al-Hāfiz Abū Nu‘aym Ahmad bin ‘AbdAllāh al-Asfahānī, Hilyat al-Awliyā’ wa Tabaqāt al-Asfiyā’ (The Beauty of the Righteous and the Ranks of the Elite), Vol I, tr. by Shaykh Muhammad al-Akīlī, Pearl Publishing House, Philadelphia, 1995.

Imām as-Sayyid Ja‘far al-Barzanjī, Mawlid u’n Nabī Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, in Mawlid Sharaf al-Anām (The Birth of Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, the Most Noble in the Whole World), Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore, and Haji Mohamed and Sons, Mombasa, n.d. Ki-Swahili poetic translation by Al-Hājj Mzee bin ‘Alī Muhammad of Comoro Islands, first published in Dar as-Salām, Tanzania, 1966.

Imām Zayn al-‘Ābidīn al-Barzanjī, As-Sirāj al-Wahhāj fi’l Isrā’ wa’l Mi‘rāj (The Glowing Lamp in the Heavenly Ascension of Prophet Muhammad, Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), n.d.

Shaykh Al-Hāfiz ‘AbdurRahmān bin ‘Alī Ad-Dayba‘ī, Mawlid u’n Nabī Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam (The Birth of the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him), Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, n.d.

Imām ‘Alī bin Muhammad al-Habshī, Simt u’d Durar (A Necklace of Pearls), Maktaba Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore, n.d.

Imām Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī al-Hasanī, Bāqatun ‘Atirah min siyaghi’l Mawlid wa’l Madā’ih an-Nabawiyya al-Karīma (A Perfumed Bouquet: A Compendium of Books of Mawlid and Eulogies on Prophet Muhammad, Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), n.d.

Imām Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl an-Nabhānī, Al-Anwār al-Muhammadiyya (The Muhammadan Lights), Hakikat Kitabevi, Istanbul, and Hizmet Books, New Jersey, 1408/1988.

 

Qasāid al-Madīh (Muslim Religious Poetry)

‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Barqūqī, Sharh Dīwān Hassān bin Thābit al-Ansārī (An Appreciative Explanation of the Collected Poems of Hadrat Hassān bin Thābit, Rady Allāhu ‘Anhu), Dār al-Ankās, Beirut, 1978.

Imām Abū Sa‘īd al-Hasan al-Husayn al-Sukkarī, Sharh Dīwān Ka‘b ibn Zuhayr (An Appreciative Explanation of the Collected Poems of Hadrat Ka‘b ibn Zuhayr, Rady Allāhu ‘Anhu), al-Maktaba al-‘Arabiyya, Cairo, 1965.

Imām Sharaf ad-Dīn Abī Muhammad al-Būsīrī, Qasīda al-Burda, Qasīda al-Mudariyya, wa Qasīda al-Muhammadiyya (The Poem of the Prophet’s Mantle, the Poem with the name of his ancestor Mudar, and the Poem with his own name in each verse), Dār al-Qur’ān, Cairo, 1979.

Qasāid Mukhtāra (Selected Religious Poems), of Qutb al-Irshād al-Habīb al-Imām ‘Abdallāh bin ‘Alawī al-Haddād, Iqra’ Islamic Publications, Toronto, 1418/1998.

Al-‘Allāmah Muhammad Sharīf Sa‘īd al-Beidh, Qutūf u’r Rabī‘ fī qasāid madh Tāhā ash-Shafī‘ (The Harvest of Rabī‘ Awwal in the Eulogies of Prophet Muhammad, the Intercessor), being a compilation of eulogies on Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam, by various shuyūkh, especially by Imām ‘Alī bin Muhammad al-Habshī, Madrasatun Nūr al-Islāmiyya, Mambrui, Kenya, 1409/1988.

Shaykh As-Sayyid Hasan bin Muhammad bin Sālim al-‘Attās, Qasāid wa Ibtihālāt Dīniyyah (Muslim Religious Poetry and Supplications), Masjid Bā ‘Alawī, Singapore, 1997.

Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rahmān bin Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Alī al-Qādirī, Al-Jawhar u’n Nafīs (The Most Precious Pearls), being a collection of qasāid of Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Qādirī, Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, 1383/1964.

 

Salawāt and Salām (Blessings and Greetings of Peace on Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam)

Imām Muhammad bin Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, Dalāil al-Khayrāt (Proofs of Good Deeds), with a sharh (Appreciative Explanation) in Arabic by al-‘Allāmah Shaykh ‘Abd al-Majīd Ash-Shurnūbī, Al-Azhar, Cairo, 1994.

Imām ‘Alī bin Muhammad al-Habshī, Latāif i’l ‘Arshiyya (Subtleties from Allāh’s Throne), in Mukhkhu’l ‘Ibādah (The Essence of Worship), compiled by al-Habīb ‘AbdAllāh bin Mustafā bin Hasan al-‘Aydarūs, n.d.

Shaykh As-Sayyid ‘Abd al-Jalīl bin ‘Azūm al-Maghribī al-Qayrawānī, Tanbīh i’l Anām fī bayān ‘ulūw maqām Nabiyyunā Muhammad Afdalu’s-Salāti wa azka’s-salām, al-ma‘rūf bi-Shifā i’l asqām wa mahw al-āthām fis-Salāti ‘alā Khayri’l Anām (Exhorting Mankind in Explaining the Exalted Station of our Prophet Muhammad, may the Best Blessings and the Purest Salutations be upon him. This book is popularly known as: The Healing of the Sick and the Erasing of sins through offering Salāt on the Best of Mankind), Mustafā al-Bābī al-Halabī, Cairo, 1347/1928.

Mawlānā Diyā ad-Dīn Khālid al-Baghdādī, Jāliyatu’l akdār wa’s-sayfi’l battār fi’s Salāti ‘ala’l Mukhtār (A Community With Meagre Means but with the sword that slays in the Invocations of Blessings on the Chosen One), Hakīkat Kitabevi (Maktaba al-Haqīqa), Istanbul, 1411/1991.

Imām Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl an-Nabhānī, Afdalu’s-Salawāt ‘alā Sayyidi’s Sādāt (The Best of Blessings on the Master of all the Nobles), al-Maktaba al-Qāfiyyah, Beirut, n.d.

Shaykh ‘AbdurRahmān Chohrawī, Majmū‘a Salawāt u’r Rasūl (A Compendium of Blessings on Prophet Muhammad, Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), Bangladesh Press, Chatgam, Bangladesh, n.d.

Mawlana Muhammad Ilyās Burney, Mishkāt u’s-Salawāt (A Niche for Lit-Up Blessings), translation and transliteration by Qārī Muhammad ‘Abdul Haleem Eliasi, Burney Academy, Masjid Pir Pasha, Dabeerpura, Hyderabad, India, 1398/1978.

Shaykh Hasan Muhammad Shaddād bin ‘Umar Bā ‘Umar, Nafahāt u’l fawz wa’l qubūl fi’s-Salāti wa’s-Salāmi ‘alā Sayyidinā ar-Rasūl Muhammad (The Fragrance of Victory and Acceptance in the Invocation of Blessings and Salutations on our Master, the Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam), Maktaba al-Mutī‘ī, Kismayu, Somalia, 1994.

Dr. Mostafā bin Hasan al-Badawī, Nafahāt u’l Aimmati’l Muqarrabīn fī Ziyārati Sayyidi’l Kawnayn Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam bi’l Madīnati’l Munawwarah (The Gifts of our Very Own Imams for the Visit to the Master of both the Worlds, may the Peace and Blessings of Allāh be upon him, in Madīna al-Munawwarah), n.d.

Hidāyat u’z-zāirīn ilā ad‘iyati Ashāb i’l yamīn, Guidance for visitors to the Companions of the right hand, that is, guidance for visitors to Prophet Muhammad Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam in Madīna, to al-Baqī, and the martyrs of Uhud, about how to greet them with salām, the greeting of peace, al-Ghannā’ al-Islāmīya, Mambrui, n.d.

Al-Hadiyyat u’s Saniyyah fi’s-Salāti ‘alā Khayri’l Bariyya (A Splendid Gift in the Invocation of Blessings on the Best of Mankind), compiled by As-Sayyid Hāmid bin ‘Alawī bin Tāhir al-Haddād, n.d.

As-Salawāt wa’l Madāih fī Hubb i’r Rasūl Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam (Blessings and Eulogies For the Love of Prophet Muhammad, may the Peace and Blessings of Allāh be upon him), Iqra’ Islamic Publications, Toronto, 1418/1998.

 

SOME MORE ANCIENT CLASSICS

Shaykh Qādī ‘Iyād ibn Mūsā al-Yahsubī, Kitāb Ash-Shifā’ bi Ta‘rīf Huqūq al-Mustafā (Healing by the Recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One). Mu’assasah Al-Kutub ath-Thaqāfiyyah, Beirut, 1421/2001. Translated by ‘Āisha ‘Abdarrahmān Bewley, Madīna Press, Granada, in association with Islamic Book Trust, Kuala Lumpur, 1991.

Imām Shihābuddīn as-Suhrawardī, ‘Awārif al-Ma‘ārif (The Illuminative Knowledge of the Spiritual Masters), forms part of Vol. 5 of Ihyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1417/1996.

Hadrat Dātā Ganj Bakhsh ‘Alī al-Hujwīrī, Kashf al-Mahjūb (Unveiling the Veiled Spiritual Aspects of Islām), Urdu translation and publication by Janāb Muhammad Altāf Saheb, Lahore, 1992.

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Khāliq al-Shabrāwī, Marātib al-nafs (The Degrees of the Soul: Spiritual Stations on the Sūfī Path), tr. by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī, The Quilliam Press, London, U.K., 1417/1997.

Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyiddīn Ibn al-‘Arabī, Kitāb Kunh mā la budda minhu li’l murīd, translated as What the Seeker Needs, by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrāhī, and Rābia Harris al-Jerrāhī, Threshold Books, Putney, Vermont, The Jerrāhī Order of America, New York, 1992.

Al-Habīb ‘AbdAllāh bin ‘Alawī bin Hasan al-‘Attās, Al-‘Ilm u’n Nabrās fi’t Tanbīh ‘alā Minhāj i’l Akyās, translated by Dr. Mostafā al-Badawī as The Way of the Banī ‘Alawī, Cairo, 1399/1979.

 

AN-NAHW (ARABIC GRAMMAR)

Imām Abī ‘Abdillāh Muhammad bin Muhammad as-Sanhājī bin Ājurrūm, Matn al-Ajrūmiyyah (The Text of Shaykh Ājirrūm on Arabic Grammar), Maktaba Ishā‘at al-Islām, Delhi, n.d.

 

ORAL TRADITION

Nasīha (religious advice) received from:

Al-Imām al-Habīb Ahmad Mashhūr bin Tāhā al-Haddād (in his gatherings of dhikr).

Mawlānā Shāh Ahmad Nūrānī Siddīqī al-Qādirī (in his khutubāt, talks and lectures)

Grandmother Hajja ‘Āisha bint al-Hājj Muhammad Ibrāhīm

 

JOURNALS

Iqra’: The Islamic Journal.
Can be obtained from Kenya.
E-mail address: editor@iqra-publications.com

 

RELATED WEB-PAGES

Iqra’ Islamic Publications: A Catalogue of Muslim Prayers and Supplications
www.iqra.net/About/cat.php

Siddīq Noormuhammad.
Toronto, 12 Rabī‘ Awwal 1426/ 21 April 2005
Al-Hamdu Lillāh: All Praise is for Allāh.

Al-Fātiha!