The ruling on reciting Faatiha upon the souls of the dead. حكم قراءة الفاتحة وغيرها إلى أرواح الموتى

الشيخ العلامة المحدث يحي الحجوري حفظه الله تعالى
as-Shaykh al-Allaamah al-Muhaddith Yahyaa al-Hajoori (may Allaah preserve him)

السؤال: ما حكم من يقرأ الفاتحة أو شيء من القرآن على أرواح الأموات؟

الإجابة:
هذا أمر محدث، لم يفعله النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ولا أصحابه رضوان الله عليهم، ما كانوا يقرءون على الأموات الفاتحة، أو آية الكرسي، أو المعوذتين، أو قل هو الله أحد، أو شيئًا من القرآن؛ قال صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: «من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو رد».. وقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: «إن الله لا يقبل من صاحب بدعة توبة حتى يدع بدعته» فيجب التوبة من هذا الفعل.

Question: What is the hukm of the one who recites Faatiha or other than that from the Qur'aan upon the souls of the dead?

Answer: This is a newly invented matter, which the Prophet sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam never did nor did the companions ridaawanuAllaah 'alaihim, they did not recite Faatiha upon the dead, nor Ayatul Kursi, nor Mu'awidhatain, nor قل هو الله أحد (Surah Ikhlaas). The Messenger sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam said (which means): 'He who innovates something into this matter of ours will have it rejected'... And also the Messenger sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam said (which means): 'Allaah never accepts from an innovator up until he repents from his innovation'. So it is waajib to make ta'uba (repentence) from this action!

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Source: www.sh-yahia.net

Saying 'where is Allaah?" is not from good manners?

الشيخ العلامة المحدث يحي الحجوري حفظه الله تعالى

السؤال: رجل يقول: من قال: (أين الله؟!) فهو بلا أدب؟

الإجابة:
هذا كلام خطير؛ فرسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم هو الذي سأل الجارية فقال لها: «أين الله»، والحديث في مسلم من حديث معاوية بن الحكم السلمي رضي الله عنه، ولنا في رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم أسوة حسنة.

Question: A person says, 'the one who asks, "Where is Allaah?" is doing so without any manners?

Answer: This statement is khateer (dangerous), as the Messenger of Allaah (sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam) was the one who asked the slave girl saying: "Where is Allaah?". This hadeeth is in Muslim, from the hadeeth of Mu'aawiyah ibn al-Hakam as-Salamee (radiAllaahu anhu). And the Messenger of Allaah (sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam) is the best of examples.
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Source: From the fatwa book of Shaykh Yahya al Hajoori (hafidhahullaah) which can be downloaded from here.

Ruling of importing, selling, buying and eating chicken and other meat slaughtered in the lands of Kufr.

Shaykh Aboo Abdi Rahmaan Yahyaa bin 'Ali al-Hajoori

Question: What is the ruling of importing chicken meat from the lands of Kufr? The likes of those named 'French Chicken' or other than that which are imported from the lands of Kufr? What is the ruling of eating them? Selling them? and buying them? Is this trade permissible?

Answer: The conditions for the correctness of a slaughtering of animals, chickens, or their likes of what Allah has made permissible to eat from their meat are: that the slaughterer be a Muslim or from the people of the book, and that the name of Allah is mentioned on it before it was slaughtered in order for it to be according to the Islamic way, as Allaah said:

الْيَوْمَ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتُ وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ وَطَعَامُكُمْ حِلُّ لَّهُمْ
Made lawful to you this day are At­Tayyibât [all kinds of Halâl (lawful) foods, which Allâh has made lawful (meat of slaughtered eatable animals, etc., milk products, fats, vegetables and fruits, etc.). The food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals, etc.) of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) is lawful to you and yours is lawful to them. [Surah al-Maidah: 5]

And Allaah also said:

لاَ تَأْكُلُواْ مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنَّهُ لَفِسْقٌ
Eat not (O believers) of that (meat) on which Allâh's Name has not been pronounced (at the time of the slaughtering of the animal), for sure it is Fisq (a sin and disobedience of Allâh). [Surah al-An'aam: 121]

And the hadeeth of Shadaad bin Aws (radiAllaahu 'anhu) in Saheeh Muslim, that the Prophet (sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said: إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ (Allaah has prescribed al-Ihsaan on everything) and also : وَإِذَا ذَبَحْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الذَّبْحَ (If you slaughter, slaughter with Ihsaan). These slaughtered meat imported from France and from other than them from the lands of Kufr, either chicken and other meat, from what I know is that they don't fulfill the Shuroot as-Sihhah (conditions of the correctness) for the slaughtered animal to be eaten. As it is shown by the adillah (evidences), it is waajib to avoid eating such meat that are imported by the lands of kufr, and avoid selling them and other such trades which are promoted among the muslims as the hadeeth states: إن الله إذا حرم شيئًا حرم ثمنه (Verily if Allaah forbids somethng, He forbids earning from it.) Allaah has instead given us wealth of animals in this country (yemen) and other countries from the imports from the lands of Muslims. And with this richness it is haraam to eat the slaughtered animals in question, and (it is haraam) to buy them as the Messenger of Allaah said: إنه لا يدخل الجنة لحم نبت من سحت (أي من حرام) النار أولى به. (Any flesh that grows from ill-gotten gains is more deserving of being touched by Hell-fire).

These slaughtered animals raise doubt and suspicion for its permissibility or forbidennes on the intellect, the Messenger (sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said: دع ما يريبك إلى ما لا يريبك (Leave the doubtful matters to that which you don't have doubt), and the hadeeth is saheeh which is narrated from Hasan bin 'Ali (radiAllaahu anhu), and the Messenger (sallalaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said: فمن اتقى الشبهات استبرأ لدينه وعرضه (Whoever avoids the doubtful matters, he has absolved himself (from wrongdoing) in his religion and in his honor.) Agreed upon on Nu'maan bin Basheer (radiAllaahu anhu). And all praise is due to Allaah.
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'Eid Milad (The Prophet's Birthday)

Question:

What is the ruling upon celebrating the birthday of the Prophet (sal Allaahu alaiyhi wa sallam) in the month of Rabee’ ul Awwal, as a means of extolling him – sal Allaahu alaiyhi wa sallam?

Answer:

Extolling the Prophet and venerating him is only through: eemaan in everything with which he came from Allaah, and following his sharee’ah – in aqeedah (creed), and speech, and action, and manners – and leaving off innovating in the religion.

And celebrating the birthday of the Prophet (sal Allaahu alaiyhi wa sallam) is from innovating in the religion.

And with Allaah is the tawfeeq. And may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet, Muhammad and upon his family and Companions.

Permanent Committee for Research and Verdicts
Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz
Shaykh `Abdullah bin Ghudayaan
Shaykh `Abdullaah bin Qu`ood
Shaykh `Abdur-Razzaaq al-`Afeefee

Question 1 from fatwa number 3257 Volume 3 p 23 of the fatawa of the Permanent Committee

Translated by Abu Abdir Rahmaan ibn Najam

Source: fatwaislam.com