Excerpts from
the book “The Moon & The Month: A Fatwa on the Importance of Sighting the
Crescent for Determining the Lunar Month”, by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse.
Message from
Sidi Ibrahim Dimson (Fayda books)
Salaamu alaikum
Family,
I hope
everyone is well and well protected during this time. I’m writing this to highlight one point. That
is, we Tijanis must follow the footsteps of our Grand Shaykh and his Khalifa
and our Shuyukh who follow in his footsteps. All of whom followed the Qur’an
and Noble sunna with a blessed and pure understanding. The issue of the
sighting of the Hilal (New crescent moon of the Islamic calendar cycle) is not
new. It rears its head mostly during the beginning and end of the holy month of
Ramadan. Alhamdulillah, we have translated a book written by Shaykh Ibrahim and
first published by the illustrious Shaykh Hassan Cisse. It brings out all of
the arguments for the different groups regarding the proper way to bring in the
new month in the Islamic lunar calendar. And the Shaykh is adamant about the
proper way, according to the Quran and sunna, to bring in a new month, which is
to site the moon locally, and begin your month based on that LOCAL sighting.
Here, I
present to you a few lines from the book, that are worthy of being written in
gold! Simple proof, for those who wish to be well informed on this matter.
Please read.
Wa’Salaam
Ibrahim
Dimson
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‘What is
clear is that if the Ummah begins to calculate and write, it will not affect
the ruling of the Sacred Law under any circumstance.’
The author of
Muntaqi al-Akhbar:
Chapter on
the Hilal asks.....’When it is seen by the people of one land, is it binding on
the people of all the other lands? Kurayb said that Umm al-Fadl sent him to
Mu’awiyah in Sham. “So, I went to Sham and fulfilled her need. While in Sham,
Ramadan came upon me. I saw the Hilal on a Thursday night. Then, I set out for
Madinah at the end of the month. Abdullah b. ‘Abbas asked me about the Hilal.
He said, ‘When did you all see the Hilal?’ I said, ‘We saw it on a Thursday
night.’ He asked, ‘Did you see it?’ I replied, ‘Yes. And the people saw it.
They and Mu’awiyah fasted.’ He said, ‘But we saw it on a Friday night. So, we
will continue to fast until we complete it, or we see the Hilal.’ I asked him,
‘Is Mu’awiyah’s sighting the moon and fasting not sufficient?’ He replied, ‘No.
That is what the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and give him peace)
ordered us to do.’”
This was
narrated by the authors of the six (famous) books (of Hadith) except Bukhari
and Ibn Majah. Al-Shawkani said in Nayl al-Awtar:
The narrators
doubted when he said, “Is it not sufficient,” whether he meant “for us,” or for
Ibn ‘Abbas. Those who said that the sighting of the moon in one land is not
binding upon the people of another land were adhering to the Hadith of Kurayb.
However, they were divided into different schools of thought regarding it.
The author of
al-Fath mentioned them:
One group
holds that each the inhabitants of every land should sight the moon, taking
only into account their own sighting. The sighting of the moon in another land
will not affect them. This opinion was transmitted by Ibn Mundhir from ‘Ikrima,
al-Qasim b. Muhammad, Salim and Ishaq. And it was transmitted as a solitary
opinion of “the people of knowledge.” It was also transmitted by al-Mawuridi as
the opinion of the Shafi’is.
The second
opinion is that the sighting of the moon of the people of one land is not
binding upon the people of another land, unless it is established by the Imam
of the Muslims. That is because all the lands are as one with regard to him
because his ruling is enacted upon all of them. This opinion was stated by Ibn
al-Majishun.
The third
opinion is lands within the proximity of one another are under one moon
sighting. If they are far away from one another, then there are two opinions.
According to most of the scholars, the moonsighting in one land is not binding
upon another land that is distant from it. That was transmitted by some of the
Shafi’is. However, Abu al-Tayyib and a group of scholars opined that it is
binding. Al-Baghawi narrated various positions from Imam al-Shafi’i regarding
the meaning of being distant. One of them, it is having different horizons.
This was the verdict of the Iraqis and al-Saydalani. And Nawawi declared it the
correct position in al-Rawdah and Sharh al-Madhhab. The second having a distant
border. This was the verdict of al-Baghawi. And al-Rafi’i and al-Nawawi
declared this position as sound. The third is that they are distant if they are
in different countries or districts. This position was transmitted in al-Fath.
The fourth
position (on whether the moonsighting in one land is binding on another) is
that it is binding upon everyone who would not be obstructed from seeing it, to
the exclusion of all others. This position was transmitted from al-Sarkhasi.
The fifth
position is like the position of Ibn al-Majishun, mentioned above.
The sixth
position is that it is not binding when the two places differ in elevation,
such as if one land is in a valley and the other in a mountain, or if each of
the lands is in a different country. This was transmitted by al-Mahdi in
al-Bahr, from Imam Yahya.
The guiding
principle and the evidence for the people of all these opinions is this Hadith
of Kurayb. And the way that proof is extracted from it is that Ibn ‘Abbas did
not act upon the sighting of the people of Sham and said, at the end of the Hadith,
“That is what the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and give him peace)
commanded us to do.” This statement indicated that he had memorized from the
Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and give him peace) that it is not
binding for the people of one land to follow the sighting of another land.
“And you
should know that the proof in the narration of Ibn Abbas is in that which he
attributed to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and give him peace),
rather than his own juristic reasoning, which people understood from the
narration.”
JAWĀHIR UL-MA’ĀNĪ
WA BULŪGH UL-AMĀNĪ
FĪ FAYD ABĪ-L ABBĀS AT-TIJĀNĪ
(PRECIOUS MEANINGS & ATTAINMENT OF HOPES: FROM THE OUTPOURING OF SĪDĪ
ABĪ-L ABBĀS AT-TIJĀNĪ)
Salaam
alaikum Family,
It is with
the greatest honor and happiness that I present to you, our newest and most
important title. Although, we have translated and published several amazing
works, the Jawahir al-Ma’ani is the crown achievement of Fayda Books Publishing
and Distribution.
After the
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lifetime, preserved and protected. It is a book that outlines the Shaykhs life,
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This first
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A soft-cover
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We pray that
Allah bless all who worked for years to bring this first volume to the public.
First and foremost of our thanks must go to Imam Shaykh Tijani Cisse for
granting us the permission, 7 years ago, to undertake the translation and
publishing of the books of the Tijani Tariqa. It is without doubt that Imams
permission has been the driving force that has led us to produce over 30 titles
in such a short time. May Allah preserve and increase our Imam.
We must also
give thanks to Shaykh Mahy Cisse for his encouragement and guidance in this
effort. May Allah preserve the Shaykh for us. And special thanks to our
brother, the scholar, Sidi Talut Dawud for translating the work. His sacrifices
and high aspirations have proven to be truly blessed.
Finally, our
thanks to all who have supported Fayda Books over the years. It is your support
that has kept our publishing house a success and benefit to the lovers of
Allah, His Prophet, His Khalifa and his Khalifa.
May Allah
increase us in this Deen and Tariqa, and May we all come to understand the
value of the leader of the Saints, as has been expressed to us by his Grand
Khalifa, Sahibul Fayda, Shaykh al-Islam al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse.
Amin, Wa’Salaam.
May Allah
give us Allah.
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