بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

Select Gems from Sheikh Abū Bilāl's Tafsīr Al-Baghawī class: We recently began Tafsīr Sūratul Ḥajj with the virtuous Sheikh Abū Bilāl Al-Ḥaḍhramī حفظه الله ورعاه. Below are some of the benefits extracted from Class 1: 1. The scholars differed as to whether Sūratul Ḥajj is Makkī (revealed before the Prophet's Hijrah) or Madanī (revealed after Hijrah)...The Sheikh holds that the Āyāt in this Sūrah are a mix between Makkī & Madanī; as is the opinion of most of the scholars (jumhūr). Some have even said: Sūratul Ḥajj is an amazing Sūrah as it contains: - Āyāt revealed during war as well as peacetime - Āyāt revealed during the night as well as daytime - Āyāt revealed during travel as well residency - Āyāt Nāsikhah as well as Mansūkhah (Verses which have come to abrogate previous rulings as well as Verses already abrogated) 2. Sūratul Ḥajj is superior to all the remaining Sūrahs in that it contains two prostrations of Tilāwah (Sajdah At-Tilāwah) [Āyah 18 & 77] 3. Sajdah At-Tilāwah is more restricted inside Ṣalāh than outside Ṣalāh; that is because the Prophet ﷺ prostrated in only four places within Ṣalāh; these four are as follows: - Sūratul ‘Alaq (Āyah 19) - Sūratul Inshiqāq (Āyah 21) - Sūratun Najm (Āyah 62) - Sūratu Ṣād (Āyah 24) * Another fact which proves the above point is that the Prophet ﷺ would usually recite Sūrah As-Sajdah in the first Rak‘ah of the Fajr prayer on Fridays, but despite that it has not been reported from him that he ever prostrated Sajdah At-Tilāwah when reciting this Surah inside Ṣalāh. 4. The Basmalah (﷽) is an individual Āyah which separates between each Sūrah - except Sūrah At-Tawbah; as it commences without a Basmalah. Also, the Basmalah is not considered amongst the seven Āyāt of Sūrah Al-Fātiḥah (according to the most correct opinion). However, the Basmalah is a part of Sūrah An-Naml (Āyah 30). 5. When a person recites the Basmalah inside Ṣalah, the Sunnah is to recite it quietly at all times. But if one is reciting outside of Ṣalāh, the Sunnah is to recite the Basmalah audibly; the evidence for this is that when Sūrah Al-Kawthar was revealed to the Prophet ﷺ, he ﷺ said: it has been revealed to me, then he began reciting Sūrah Al-Kawthar beginning with the Basmalah, i.e.: بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم إنا أعطيناك الكوثر...(السورة) 6. قال البغوي رحمه الله: يقال 'مرضع' بلا هاء إذا أريد الصفة، مثل حائض، وحامل، فإذا أرادوا الفعل أدخلوا الهاء (مرضعة) 7. التفسير بـ'أي' يستعمل معه ضمير التكلم، والتفسير بـ'إذا' يستعمل معه ضمير الخطاب. مثال ذلك: يقال: ذهلت عن كذا، أي: تركتُه وانشغلتُ بغيره يقال: ذهلت عن كذا، إذا: تركتَه وانشغلتَ بغيره Tanbeehāt: 1. Some things are just better left untranslated (benefits 6 & 7). 2. There were more benefits than this, but this is what Allāh made easy for me to note down. 3. The intent in relaying these benefits is to demonstrate to the reader the amount of benefits a student of knowledge can attain in the sittings of knowledge. Nonetheless, this a humble sample...it doesn't do this place justice - you just have to come and see it for yourself! {ومن يتوكل على الله فهو حسبه} {ومن يتق الله يجعل له مخرجا} _______________ ✍🏽 Abū Ishāq Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Bā ‘Alawī 🛶 Darul ḥadīth, Al-Ḥāmī, Yemen