The whole guide
204 sections, arranged by what you are trying to do rather than by the order of the book. Every one is written three ways.
Belief (Iman)
What a Muslim believes, the words that carry it, and what is owed to the Prophet. · 15 sections
The articles of faith
- What faith means, and the words that carry it
- Belief in Allah
- Belief in the angels
- Belief in Allah's books
- Belief in the prophets, and the life of the Prophet ﷺ
- Belief in the Last Day
- Belief in destiny (Qadr)
- Paradise and Hell
- The Companions and the Prophet's family
- Saints, jinn, and further matters of belief
- The virtue of sending salutations (durood) on the Prophet ﷺ
The creed and its opposites
From belief to practice
Purification (Taharah)
What purity means, water, ablution (wudu), the full bath (ghusl), dry ablution (tayammum), and impurity. · 27 sections
Purity (Taharah)
Water
Ablution (Wudu)
- The virtues of ablution (wudu)
- When ablution (wudu) is obligatory, necessary, sunnah or recommended
- The conditions for ablution (wudu) to be valid
- The four obligatory acts (fard) of ablution (wudu)
- The sunnahs and preferred acts (mustahabbat) of ablution (wudu)
- How to make ablution (wudu), step by step
- The disliked acts (makruhat) of ablution (wudu)
- What breaks ablution (wudu), and the rulings of minor impurity
- Wiping over the socks (masah over khuffayn)
- The ablution (wudu) of a person with a chronic excuse (ma'zoor)
The full bath (Ghusl)
- What the full bath (ghusl) is, and when it is required
- The reasons that make the full bath (ghusl) necessary
- The sunnahs, preferred acts and disliked acts of the full bath (ghusl)
- How to make the full bath (ghusl), step by step
- Menstruation (hayd), postnatal bleeding (nifas), and the rulings of major impurity
Dry ablution (Tayammum)
Impurity (Najasah)
Cleaning after the toilet (Istinja)
Leftover water and food (Sur)
Prayer (Salah)
Times, the call to prayer, how to pray, praying together, and putting mistakes right. · 45 sections
Why prayer matters
The times of prayer
The call to prayer (Adhan)
- The call to prayer (adhan) and the call to begin (iqamah): what they are, their words, and the extra call (tathwib)
- The rules of the call to prayer (adhan) and the iqamah, and when an adhan counts
- The sunnah method of the call to prayer (adhan) and the iqamah, step by step
- The sunnahs and preferred acts of the call to prayer (adhan) and the iqamah
- Disliked ways of giving the call to prayer (adhan), and who may not give it
- How to respond to the call to prayer (adhan) and the call to begin (iqamah)
- The call to prayer (adhan) for a newborn and in distress, and other rulings
The parts of the prayer
How to pray
What spoils the prayer
Putting mistakes right
Praying together (Jama'ah)
- Congregational prayer, its virtues, and excuses for missing it
- Who most deserves to lead the prayer
- The conditions for valid leadership (imamate) and for valid following
- The rules between the imam and the follower
- Joining a congregation that has already begun
- The four categories of follower: on time (madrik), interrupted (lahiq), late (masbooq), and late and interrupted
- When ablution (wudu) breaks during prayer, and continuing it (bina)
- The rules and etiquette of the mosque
Witr and the voluntary prayers (Nafl)
Missed prayers (Qada)
Illness and travel
Prayers for particular occasions
Friday & Eid
The Friday prayer (Jumu'ah), the sermon, and the two Eid prayers. · 21 sections
The Friday prayer (Jumu'ah)
- The obligation of the Friday prayer (Jumu'ah), and who it is obligatory upon
- The emphasis on the Friday prayer, and the warning against abandoning it
- The virtues of Friday (Jumu'ah)
- The conditions for the Friday prayer to be valid
- The rules of the call to prayer (adhan) on Friday
- The rules of the rows on Friday
- The rules of the Friday sermon, and the etiquette of listening to it
- The method of offering the Friday sermon and prayer
- The Friday sermon of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
- The etiquettes of Friday
- Miscellaneous rulings of the Friday prayer (Jumu'ah)
The two Eids
- What is Eid? The obligation of the Eid prayers
- The conditions for the Eid prayers
- The times of the Eid prayers
- The units of prayer (rakats) and the extra takbirs of the Eid prayer
- How to pray the Eid prayer, step by step
- The rulings of the Eid sermon
- Mistakes, forgetfulness and joining late in the Eid prayer
- Missing and postponing the Eid prayer
- The etiquettes of Eid day
- The takbir of the days of Tashriq (Takbir al-Tashriq)
Fasting (Sawm)
Ramadan, who must fast, what breaks a fast, and making fasts up. · 11 sections
The basics
Keeping the fast
What breaks a fast
Excuses and making fasts up
Vows and seclusion in the mosque (I'tikaf)
Almsgiving (Zakat)
What zakat is due on, how much, and who may receive it. · 9 sections
What zakat is due on
Paying it
The charity of Eid al-Fitr (Sadaqat al-Fitr)
Pilgrimage (Hajj & Umrah)
The pilgrim's dress (ihram), the rites in order, and visiting Madinah. · 33 sections
The basics
The journey
The pilgrim's state (Ihram)
- The boundary points (miqats) and the time for entering the pilgrim's state (ihram)
- How to enter the pilgrim's state (ihram), step by step
- How a woman's pilgrim's state (ihram) differs from a man's
- What is disliked and what is allowed in the pilgrim's state (ihram)
- What is forbidden in the pilgrim's state (ihram), and the penalty for each
- Penalties for mistakes in the circling (tawaf), the walk (sa'y) and the stoning (rami)
Makkah, circling the Kaaba (Tawaf) and Umrah
- Entering Makkah and the first sight of the Kaʿbah
- The seven kinds of circling the Kaaba (tawaf), and its obligatory, necessary and sunnah acts
- How to circle the Kaaba (tawaf), step by step
- The walk between Safa and Marwah (sa'y), and completing Umrah
- Where dua is accepted in Makkah, and sacred places to visit
The days of Hajj, in order
- The obligatory (fard), necessary (wajib) and sunnah acts of Hajj and Umrah, at a glance
- The days of Hajj, from the 8th to the 13th of Dhul-Hijjah, at a glance
- The 8th of Dhul-Hijjah (the Day of Tarwiyah): entering the pilgrim's state (ihram) for Hajj and going to Mina
- The standing at Arafat, on the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah
- From Arafat to Muzdalifah, and the night there
- The 10th of Dhul-Hijjah: stoning the great pillar (Jamrat al-Aqabah), the sacrifice, and shaving
- The circling of visitation (Tawaf al-Ziyarah), the pillar of Hajj
- The Days of Tashriq: stoning all three pillars (Jamarat), and leaving Mina
- The farewell circling of the Kaaba (Tawaf al-Wada)
- Performing Hajj on behalf of someone else (Hajj Badal)
Marriage & Family
The marriage contract (nikah), guardianship, and the rulings of divorce (talaq). · 26 sections
Marriage (Nikah)
- What marriage (nikah) is, and its ruling
- The pillar and conditions of a valid marriage (nikah)
- The rules of offer and acceptance
- The witnesses to a marriage (nikah)
- Guardianship in marriage
- Suitability (kafa'ah) between husband and wife
- The dower (mahr)
- Who you cannot marry: blood relations and in-laws
- Who you cannot marry: fosterage (breastfeeding)
- Who you cannot marry: the other causes
- Marriage of the insane and of minors
- The marriage sermon (khutbat an-nikah)
- How a marriage (nikah) is conducted
- Spouses' rights, and marriages that do not hold
Divorce (Talaq)
- What divorce (talaq) is, and when it is allowed
- Who may pronounce a divorce, and what makes it valid
- The words that effect a divorce: explicit and allusive
- The kinds of divorce: best (ahsan), good (hasan), and innovated (bid'ah)
- Revocable and irrevocable divorce, and divorce before consummation
- Taking the wife back during her waiting period (ruju')
- The wife's release in exchange for compensation (khul')
- The oath not to approach one's wife (ila')
- Likening a wife to one's mother (zihar), and the oath of accusation (li'an)
- The waiting period (iddah) after divorce or death
- Custody of children and maintenance after divorce
- Further rulings connected to marriage and divorce
Food & Daily Life
Lawful and unlawful animals, slaughtering, the Eid sacrifice (qurbani), and the newborn's sacrifice (aqiqah). · 6 sections
Food and slaughtering
The Eid sacrifice (Qurbani)
Death & Burial
Caring for the dying, washing, shrouding, the funeral prayer and burial. · 11 sections