Question Are these ḥadith sound? Are the references provided correct and accurate? When you see the belly of Makkah will be cleft open and through it will be dug out river-like passages (i.e. tunnels) (or water in the road to Makkah), and you see the buildings surpass its mountains, then take care (or beware, or a variant has: then know that the matter is at hand, or then understand that the time of trial (Judgment day) is near at hand). [Narrated by Al-Azraqi in the Book of reports about Makkah – Kitab Akhbaar Makkah, Hadiyth-1725; A specific Hadiyth (in fact several related-Hadiyths) which prophesizes about this Tower. Itha ra’aitun mecca bu’ijat katha’ima, wa ya-tasawa bunyanuha ru’usa jibaliha, faqad athalati as-Sa’atu. When you see Mecca, its mountain with holes (pierced through them), and its buildings reach its mountain tops, then as-Sa’ah (the Hour) has already cast its shadow. [Suyuti] So when you see in Makkah that channels have already been dug (or tunnels built), and you
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Isnt there an English Translation?
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I was asked about who has given ijazah to the scholars in the hizb including sheik atta. Please could you help me with this information.
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Ijaza is a tradition and not a requirement for scholarship, as it is not based on textual evidence.
However many of the scholars of the hizb also have the traditional Ijaza
You can see details of some of them from: http://islamicsystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/scholars-who-are-working-for-khilafah.html
Sheikh Ata had approval from Sheikh Abdul Qadeem Zalloom and Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani, whose scholarship are well known in fact he was his assistant Sheikh Abdul Qadeem.
in the book, "Thinking", the sheikh writes on page 104, that it is possible for one to be knowledgable enough to make istinbat but not ijtihad. Please could you clarify this statement and what level of study is required to attain at least this level of making istinbat?
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