* Ajwah — from the town of Medina in Saudi Arabia, it is the subject of a famous Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to ` Abd Allah ibn ` Abbas ( cousin of Muhammad ) Book 13 Hadith No. 4016, the dying Muhammad said that he wished to write a letter — or wished to have a letter written — detailing his wishes for his community.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

* How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs — Biblical Archaeology Review

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

* History of Aluminium — from the website of the International Aluminium Institute

While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The Chacoan structures altogether required the wood of 200, 000 coniferous trees, mostly hauled — on foot — from mountain ranges up to away.

Cash remittances sent back home from Armenians working abroad — mostly in Russia and the United States — are growing and contribute significantly to Armenia's Gross Domestic Product ( between 15 to 30 percent ).

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

Quotes from the Quran and Hadith were used by Muslims in the Kuomintang-controlled Muslim publication, the Yuehua, to justify Chiang Kai-shek's rule over China.

According to as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani, the Hadith Qudsi differ from the Quran in that the former are " expressed in Muhammad's words ", whereas the latter are the " direct words of God ".

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

In a similarly worded Hadith to the one above, Ibn Nuhaas cited a hadith from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, where it states that the highest kind of Jihad, is "“ The person who is killed whilst spilling the last of his blood .” 4 / 144

An Imam Bukhari Hadith describes Jesus as having wet hair that looked as if water was dripping from it, possibly meaning he was naturally anointed.

These scholars regard apostasy as a serious crime, but argue for the freedom to convert to and from Islam without legal penalty, and consider the aforementioned Hadith quote as insufficient justification for capital punishment.

There is a Hadith of the Prophet stating, " Ali and I are from the same Noor ".

Quotes from the Quran and Hadith were used by Muslims to justify Chiang Kai-shek's rule over China.

( Hadith narrated by Muslim from Abu Hurayrah, as mentioned in sahih al-Jami # 7705 )

Muhammad is reported to have said, " Make du ' a to God in a state that you are certain that your du ' a will be responded to, and know that God does not respond to a du ' a that originates from a negligent, inattentive heart "( Hadith narrated by al-Tirmidhi and al-Hakim from Abu-Hurayrah and authenticated by al-Albani in sahih al-Jami )

How then can his supplication be accepted ?” ( Similar version in Hadith reported by Ahmad, Muslim, and al-Tirmidhi from Abu Hurayrah, as mentioned in sahih al-Jami # 2744 )

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

They believe that it is necessary to derive rulings directly from the Qur ' an and the Hadith.

He was a world-renowned scholar of Islam and International Law from India, who was known for contributions to the research of the history of Hadith, translations of the Koran, the advancement of Islamic learning, and to the dissemination of Islamic teachings in the Western world.

According to Sarah Slroumsa " The verb i ' tazala means " to withdraw ", and in its most common use, as given in the dictionaries and attested in Hadith literature, it denotes some sort of abstinence from sexual activity, from worldly pleasures, or, more generally, from sin.

The sīrat rasūl allāh ( Life of the Messenger of God ; ) or al-sīra al-nabawiyya ( Prophetic biography ; ) or just al-sīra, is the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad from which, in addition to the Qur ' an and Hadith, most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived.

All other sins may be forgiven through true repentance: shirk speaks of associating partners with God after having received the Divine Guidance, as it is said in the Quran and Hadith that when one submits to God ( i. e. embraces Islam ), their " accounts " ( of sins and righteous deeds used to determine the standing of a person on the Last Day ) are numbered from that moment.

Twelvers theology is based on the Hadith which have been narrated from the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the first, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Imams and compiled by Shia scholars such as Al-Shaykh al-Saduq in al-Tawhid.

In Hadith, Muhammad says that some forty thousands prophets and messengers came from Abraham's seed, most of these were from Isaac, and that the last one in this line was Jesus.

At the age of ten, he was well-versed in the Qira ’ āt ; afterwards he learned the sciences of Hadith, Fiqh and Sirah from the famous scholars of the time such as Al-Suhayli.

Regarding consultation with the people of the book, it is also narrated by Abu Hurairah in Hadith literature ( Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book 6, Volume 60, Hadith 12 )

* Muhammad al-Bukhari ( Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari ) ( 810-870 ), editor of Sahih al-Bukhari, the book of Hadith

The book was a summary of the Sahih Muslim Hadith, and consisted of extracts from the Hadiths.

They support their discussion by putting facts from Genesis 17: 19 – 20 and sunni hadeeth: Sahih Muslim, Hadith number 4478, English translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.

The most accepted collection of Hadith Sahih al Bukhari has 4 entries ( under 3829, 8804, 8805 and 8824 ) which refer to death by stoning.

This Hadith was recorded by Ahmad, At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa ' i. At-Tirmidhi said, “ Hasan Sahih .”

An authentic or Sahih Hadith says that Imam Ahmad recorded that Ubayy bin Ka ` b said that ;

" Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari ( Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan translation of Zubidi's Mukhtasar Sahih Bukhari ) Hadith 539, pg.

* Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 16: Witr Prayer Hadith no 111, 112

Sunni Muslims regard this collection as the second most authentic of the Six major Hadith collections, containing only sahih hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih Bukhari, both being referred to as the Two Sahihs.

Within the Sahih al-Bukhari collection, worldy punishments are described in the following Hadith:

( Sahih Bukahri, Book # 54, Hadith # 457 )

The classification of Hadith into Sahih ( sound ), Hasan ( good ) and Da ' if ( weak ) was firmly established by Ali ibn al-Madini ( 161 – 234 AH ).

It has no basis in the Qur ' an however it is found in Hadith ( e. g. Sahih Muslim 17: 4191-4209 and 17: 4916 & 17: 4194 ).

" ( Book # 61, Hadith # 579 ) & Sahih Muslim