Celebrating Shab E Barat - A Thread

Some Muslims celebrate the middle of Sha‘baan, fasting on that day and spending that night in prayer. There is a hadeeth concerning that which is not saheeh, hence the scholars regarded celebrating this day as an innovation

It is not prescribed in Islam to celebrate the night of the fifteenth of Sha‘baan, whether that is by spending the night in prayer, dhikr and reading Qur’aan, or by distributing sweets or giving food to people and so on.
It is not known in the saheeh Sunnah that this night is to be singled out for acts of worship.
Al-‘Iraaqi said: The hadeeth about the prayer on Laylat al-Nisf (mid-Sha‘baan) is false. Ibn al-Jawzi narrated it in al-Mawdoo‘aat (which is a compilation of fabricated hadeeths)
The hadeeth, “When the night of ‘nisf Sha‘baan’ (mid-Sha‘baan) comes, spend the night in prayer and fast on that day” was narrated by Ibn Maajah from ‘Ali. Muhashiyyah said: (It was also narrated) in al-Zawaa’id.
Its isnaad is da‘eef (weak) because of the weakness of Ibn Abi Basrah, of whom Ahmad and Ibn Ma‘een said: He fabricates hadeeth. End quote.
Sh. ‘Abd Al-‘Azeez Ibn Bāz [رحمه الله] said:

❝From the Bid'ahs which have been introduced into the religion by people is the Bid'ah of celebrating the Mid-Sha'ban night and fasting on its day. There is no reliable evidence for such actions.❞

[Fatwas of Ibn Bāz, (1/186-187)]
Sh. ‘Abd Al-‘Azeez Ibn Bāz رحمه الله said:

❝What the majority of Muslim scholars agreed upon is that the celebration of Mid-Sha'ban night is Bid'ah and tht the Hadiths reported regarding the virtue of this night are all weak and some of them are fabricated.❞

[Ibn Bāz, (1/187]
Ibn Dihyah Al-Kalbī [D.633H] said:

❝The people of At-Ta'dīl Wa At-Tajrīh [i.e. the 'Ulamā of Hadīth] have said: 'There isn't a single Hadīth about the 15th night of Sha'bān that is Sahīh [authentic]'.❞

[Mā Wud'a Wa Istibān Fī Fadā`il Sharh Sha'bān, (Page: 43)]
Allaah’s descending to the first heaven does not only happen on the night of the fifteenth of Sha’baan, rather it is proven in al-Saheehayn and elsewhere that Allaah descends to the first heaven every night, in the last third of the night.
The night of the fifteenth of Sha’baan is included in this general meaning. 

Hence, when ‘Abd-Allaah ibn al-Mubaarak was asked about the descent of Allaah on the night of the fifteenth of Sha’baan, he said to the one who asked him: “O weak one!
The night of the fifteenth?! He descends every night!” 
Narrated by Abu ‘Uthmaan al-Saabooni in I’tiqaad Ahl al-Sunnah, no. 92. 

If a person wants to pray qiyaam on this night as he does on other nights!without singling this night out for anything then that is OK.
Even with regard to the night of the fifteenth of Sha‘baan, there is no proof that the Messenger ﷺ ever venerated it or spent that night in prayer.
To sum up, there is no celebration in Sha‘baan and there is no special act of worship to be performed in the middle of it or during the last days of the month. Doing that is an innovation that has been introduced into the religion. 
And Allah knows best.

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As we know, Rightwing Hindutva is the loudest proponent of the “Caste in Muslims” line.
Gullible Pasmanda activists fall for this charade while willing Quislings perpetuate it.
In this thread I give a rebuttal to each point of fitnāh made by this man.

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Lie!
This is not an assertion of superiority but a genealogical frame merely tracing descent.
Nor is it comparable to Caste as institutionalised and practised by Vedic Brahminism.

NB: The Prophet (S.A.W.) in fact first took up arms against his own tribe, the Quraish.


The Quran is clear:
“He has ordained for you of religion what He enjoined upon Noah and that which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what We enjoined upon Abraham and Moses and Jesus - to establish the religion and not be divided therein...”

Surah Ash-Shūrá Quran 42:13

The fact is, the Quran and The Prophet (S.A.W) lay great stress on the characteristics of superiority being righteousness and piety.
Tribal (again, not comparable to the caste system) membership did not denote superiority in religion.
This is a basic difference from Casteism.


What amateurs!
A fatwa is a non-binding legal opinion.
For more on the subject read this interview of Dr. @rezaaslan:
https://t.co/7CcEv3Up0D

As for Barani let us go on to the next tweet in this thread so I can tear your fabrications to shreds.

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