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[quote]Assalaamu 'Alaikum. This topic is being initiated because I realise that nowadays many of us are troubled where knowledge about Islam is concerned. The thing is: Whenever we ask scholars to help us out regarding a matter, they sometimes tend to make it worse. One scholar gives a statement that the other disagrees with. The worst part is that they don't even quote any Hadeeth through which we can clear our doubts. I've had my personal experiences. You don't know which scholar is correct because you yourself have very little knowledge about a certain issue, so you go crazy in deciding which one is an extremist, which is moderate, and which is liberal. But hold on. The purpose of this topic is not to condemn scholars; it's to gain knowledge. Bottomline: Can anyone please recommend some authentic books that ignorant people like me can refer to when they're doubtful about a certain issue? Personally, I think that in order to live Islam, we need to study Islam ourselves so we can be less dependant on scholars. What I suggest is that we all read up the Ahadeeth ourselves, along with their chains of narrators, so that we ourselves are able to judge the authenticity of every Hadeeth. I say we study every aspect of Islam A to Z so we can decide ourselves what is lawful and what is not. And in case we are doubtful regarding any matter, we should perform Ijtihaad based on this acquired knowledge, and try to avoid the views of scholars. I recently got to know the names of a few books which tell you about the authenticity of Ahadeeth. Thay are as follows: al-‘Ilal al-Mutanaahiyah by Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Manaar al-Muneef by Ibn al-Qayyim, al-La’aali’ al-Masnoo’ah fi’l-Ahaadeeth al-Mawdoo’ah by al-Suyooti, al-Fawaa’id al-Majmoo’ah by al-Shawkaani, al-Asraar al-Marfoo’ah fi’l-Ahaadeeth al-Mawdoo’ah by Ibn ‘Arraaq, Da’eef al-Jaami’ al-Sagheer and Silsilat al-Ahaadeeth al-Da’eefah wa’l-Mawdoo’ah, both by Shaykh al-Albaani If anyone knows the names of other books through which you can get to know the chains of narrators (isnad) or judge the authenticity of the text (matn), please do inform us (the forum members) about it. Thanks.[/quote]
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