Hayat-us Sahaba

**uali3** · 15-06-2012, 02:03 PM

Salam, I've recently started reading this book. I have an English translation of it and it's probably the best book on the sahaba i've read. However, i'd like to know how authentic it is. I typed it on to google and there were quite a few ahle-hadith forum people belittling it (as they do). I'd recommend the book to anyone, especially if your imans quite weak.

**hmdsalahuddin** · 15-06-2012, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by uali3

Salam, I've recently started reading this book. I have an English translation of it and it's probably the best book on the sahaba i've read. However, i'd like to know how authentic it is. I typed it on to google and there were quite a few ahle-hadith forum people belittling it (as they do). I'd recommend the book to anyone, especially if your imans quite weak.

Source for every incident has been given in the book itself. Who ever wants can check out the authenticity.

**amr123** · 15-06-2012, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by uali3

Salam, I've recently started reading this book. I have an English translation of it and it's probably the best book on the sahaba i've read. However, i'd like to know how authentic it is. I typed it on to google and there were quite a few ahle-hadith forum people belittling it (as they do). I'd recommend the book to anyone, especially if your imans quite weak.

Its a really good book, As the brother mentioned above, all the sources are mentioned in the book itself.

**Jadeed** · 15-06-2012, 03:23 PM

It is a good book, and whether or not the narrations are weak is not especially relevant if it is being used for historical information. Just don't go around basing ahkam on the narrations (not that you're qualified to do that anyway) and you're golden.

**TripolySunni** · 15-06-2012, 03:58 PM

Salam`Aleykum,

It is a collection of narrations, some of them are authentic and some are not. If you are interested in a specific narration and you wish to know its authenticity then you have to ask qualified scholars and other Muslims.

**uali3** · 15-06-2012, 07:07 PM

Yeh, I've just realised that the source of narrations are given at the bottom of each page, and a lot of them are declared as saheeh or reliable. There's a lot of stuff i found interesting, such as angels fighting alongside the Muslims on the battlefield, and general narrations to do with the unseen, a lot of which is authentic.

**miirfan** · 15-06-2012, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by uali3

Yeh, I've just realised that the source of narrations are given at the bottom of each page, and a lot of them are declared as saheeh or reliable. There's a lot of stuff i found interesting, such as angels fighting alongside the Muslims on the battlefield, and general narrations to do with the unseen, a lot of which is authentic.

Angles fighting alongside: Can u believe that it can happen even today.? Yes, once my friend said d incident of his village which took place due to quarrel on land area of Mandir(temple) and Masjid which reminds me of battle of Badr. Muslims were 72 men and 1 women(was above 50 & she use to collect stones which was d only weapon for us), and Hindus were approx 9000 to 10,000 in number and were equipped wit sword, base-ball sticks etc. . Quarrel stops when police got involved in wit air firing, tear gas and all and arrested ppl from both sides. He also say dat even today if sometime discussion on abv incident comes wit our hindu bro's dey say, u ppl r saying lie if not den v could had finished(vanished) u if u were not so much in number on dat day. When enquired on our total strength, dey wil say around 15,000 to 20,000, but in reality v were as said above.
Subhanalla.

**miirfan** · 17-06-2012, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by miirfan

Angles fighting alongside: Can u believe that it can happen even today.? Yes, once my friend said d incident of his village which took place due to quarrel on land area of Mandir(temple) and Masjid which reminds me of battle of Badr. Muslims were 72 men and 1 women(was above 50 & she use to collect stones which was d only weapon for us), and Hindus were approx 9000 to 10,000 in number and were equipped wit sword, base-ball sticks etc. . Quarrel stops when police got involved in wit air firing, tear gas and all and arrested ppl from both sides. He also say dat even today if sometime discussion on abv incident comes wit our hindu bro's dey say, u ppl r saying lie if not den v could had finished(vanished) u if u were not so much in number on dat day. When enquired on our total strength, dey wil say around 15,000 to 20,000, but in reality v were as said above.
Subhanalla.

Done wit necessary correction by editing above post

**FazalKhan** · 17-06-2012, 07:30 AM

Shaykh GF Haddad:

"The lives of the Sahaba by al-Kandihlawi is a masterpiece."

**gabriel** · 17-06-2012, 10:41 AM

I have met the scholar who provided the commentary on the narrations collection of Hayatus Sahabah at the bottom. He is the Sheikhul Hadith in NizamUddin and teaches Bukhari.

That said not all the narrations are proven to be authentic (please note the use of the word narrations and not hadith). For example there is no authentication (anywhere) to prove that Abu Bakr (May Allah be please with him) fought in battle, but it would be ludicrous to say he did not, right? as there are narrations that put him.

if you are looking for authentication in the same context of Hadith collection then you would have to disgard most of all historic data regards to Islam. but that again would be ludicrous as only one who lacks the understanding of the sciences would do something like this.