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An-Nass Wel-Ijtihad (Text and Interpretation)

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• A glance at the author’s biography
• His birth and upbringing
• His study
• His return to Mountain Aamil
• His travel to Egypt
• His national jihad
• In Damascus
• In Egypt
• In Palestine
• His return to his country (Mountain Aamil)
• His delving in traditions
• His letters
• His prose
• His speeches
• His criticizing poetry
• His generosity
• His dignity
• His assist to people of knowledge and pen
• His works
• His lost works
• His projects and heritage
• His visiting the sacred places
• Najaf was in need of him
• His death and burial
• Introduction
• An-Nass wel-Ijtihad
• Preface
• Chapter one: Interpretations of Abu Bakr and his followers
• The day of saqeefa
• The second situation
• the third situation
• The army of Ussama bin Zayd
• The share of those whose hearts are made to incline (to the truth)
• The share of the relatives
• Bequeathing by the Prophets
• The donation of Fatima
• Hurting Fatima (s)
• The Prophet (s) orders Abu Bakr and Umar
• 11. The Prophet (s) orders Abu Bakr and Umar for the second time
• The Kharijites
• Killing the Kharijites
• They are the worst of people
• The Kharijites’ apostasy
• Fighting innocent people
• The day of al-Bitah
• Who was Malik?
• What was the guilt of Malik?
• Khalid’s advance towards al-Bitah
• Killing Malik and his people
• The anger of Abu Qatada and Umar
• How wonder it is!
• Showing the opinion
• Some fairness
• Conclusion
• Preventing from writing down the prophetic traditions
• A task
• Chapter two
• Interpretation of Umar and his followers
• The calamity of Thursday
• The true fact of this calamity
• The excuses of the resistants
• Refuting the excuses in other ways
• Sheikh al-Bishri admires what we have said
• Treaty of al-Hudaybiya
• The event in details
• Aggressiveness of Quraysh and the wisdom of the Prophet (s)
• Fright of the polytheists and request for peace
• Umar disdains the conditions of the truce
• Carrying out the treaty of peace
• The fruit of the peace
• Coming back to Medina
• Deliverance the Oppressed were promised of
• The Prophet’s prayer for ibn Ubayy, the hypocrite
• The Prophet’s prayers for some of the believers
• Paradise is for the monotheists
• The pleasure of the hajj
• 22. Temporary marriage
• 23. Changing the azan
• 24. “come to the best of deeds”
• Note
• 25. Changing the rules of divorce
• 26. The prayer of taraweeh
• 27. The prayer of funerals
• 28. Bequeathing between brothers and sisters
• 29. Shortage of inheritance
• 30. Inheritance of grandfather when there are brothers
• 31. Common inheritance
• 32. The share of the heirs
• 33. Uncle’s inheritance from his sister’s son
• 34. Iddah of a pregnant woman
• Note
• 35. Marrying a missing husband’s wife
• 36. Selling bondwomen
• 37. Necessity of Tayammum when there is no water
• 38. Two supererogatory Rak’as after Asr prayer
• 39. Displacing Abraham’s temple
• 40. Weeping for the dead
• 41. The Prophet (s) confirms truthfulness of Hatib
• 42. The Prophet’s book to his emirs
• 43. Dividing the charities
• 44. The Prophet (s) orders Umar to hide his faith
• 45. Fasting at the beginning of Islam
• 46. Prohibiting wine
• 47. The Prophet (s) forbids from killing al-Abbas and others
• 48. Taking ransom from the prisoners of Badr
• 49. Prisoners of Hunayn
• 50. The fleers from jihad
• Note
• 51. The Prophet (s) orders his companions not to answer Abu Sufyan in Uhud 
• 52. Spying although prohibited
• 53. Legislating a limit to women’s dowries
• 54. Changing legal penalties
• 55. Taking non-legislated ransom
• 56. Penalty of adultery
• 57. Canceling the penalty of al-Mugheera
• 58. His severity to Jabala bin al-Abham
• 59. His severity to Abu Hurayra
• 60. His severity to Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas
• 61. His severity to Khalid bin al-Waleed
• 62. Beating and exiling Dhabee’
• 63. Exiling Nasr bin Hajjaj
• 64. Exceeding the legal penalty with his son
• 65. Cutting the tree of al-Hudaybiya
• 66. Umm Hani complains against him to the Prophet (s)
• 67. The day of consultation (an-Najwa)
• 68. His indulgence to Mo’awiya
• 69. His illegal order
• 70. Inventing the Shura
• Chapter three
• Othman and his followers’ Interpretations
• 71. His kindness to his relatives
• 72. His prayer in travel
• Chapter four
• Aa’isha and her interpretations
• 73. The prayer of Aa’isha in travel
• 74. The marriage of Asma’ with the Prophet
• 75. Fabrications against the Prophet’s wife
• 76. The day of Maghafeer
• 77. Aa’isha and Hafsa were ordered to repent
• 78. Backing up against the Prophet (s)
• 79. The great example
• 80. Engagement of Shiraf
• 81. She quarreled with the Prophet (s)
• 82. Being impolite to the Prophet (s)
• 83. Criticizing Othman and ordering to be killed
• 84. Some of her traditions about the Prophet (s)
• 85. Her rising against Imam Ali (s)
• About this tragedy
• Umm Salama’s situation toward this sedition
• The situation of Hafsa
• The situation of Malik bin al-Ashtar
• General leadership in this sedition
• Aa'isha rises from Mecca to Basra
• The well of al-Haw’ab
• The situation of Abul Aswad ad-Du’Ali
• Aa'isha and ibn Souhan
• Jariya bin Qudama and Aa'isha
• A young man from bani Sa’d
• A young boy from Juhayna
• al-Ahnaf bin Qayss and Aa'isha
• Abdullah bin Hakeem and Talha
• A wise man advising the people of Basra
• The speech of Aa'isha to the people of Basra
• Getting ready to fight
• The situation of Hakeem bin Jabala
• Imam Ali arrives at Basra
• Chapter five
• Interpretations of Khalid bin al-Waleed 
• 86. On The day of the conquest of Mecca
• 87. His violence to bani Juthayma
• Chapter six
• The violations of Mo’awiya
• 88. Joining Ziyad to Abu Sufyan (as a son)
• 89. Entrusting his son Yazeed with the caliphate
• 90. His corruption in Yemen
• 92. Killing the virtuous believers
• 92. His bad deeds and his bad officials
• 93. His hatred and aggression towards Ali
• 94. Cursing Imam Ali (s) in prayers
• 95. His fights against Imam Ali (s)
• 96. Fabricating traditions against Imam Ali
• 97. Breaking the promises he had given to Imam Hasan (s)
• Chapter seven
• The slips of the public (the Sunni)
• 98. Trusting in everyone who has accompanied the Prophet (s)
• 99. Turning away from the infallible imams
• 100. A call for good faith
• Conclusion
• Endnotes