The Madinan Way

Besides the normal dispute over when Ramadan begins and ends, there is the dispute every year over whether or not the correct day of Arafat is the one being observed by those making the pilgrimage to Mecca. A considerable number of Muslims follow the assumption that Islam demands from every Muslim in the world to adjust their local calendars to make them conform to the Saudi Arabian Islamic calendar, since, naturally, there ca...

Reciting the Takbira in Unison is the Sunnah

Imam al-Bukhari said in his Sahih in Kitab al-‘Idayn, Chapter 11,

“Ibn ‘Umar and Abu Hurayra used to go out to the market place during the first 10 days [of Dhu al-Hijja], and they would recite the takbira, and the people recited the takbira with them...”

Then he reports the following in Chapter 12,

“’Umar [ibn Al-Khattab] used recite the takbira in his tent in Mina. So the people in th...