Can someone please substantiate/confirm

[Ibn_Sadique]

Re: Can someone please substantiate/confirm

@psyah

This site should be substantiation for the shadow matter …

The Shadowless Prophet

So the matter is there and documented … It is not my job to say whether it is right or wrong and neither can I say anything about it regarding authenticity.

Assalama alaykum respected brother pysah

The link provided by you is an extreme Barelvi Site:

I’ll quote from the link:

Can these people who are influenced by the new innovators in religion, the Wahabi/Salafi movement, deny the veracity of these miracles? If these are possible, then why is it difficult to accept the miracle that the Prophet did not possess a shadow? Do they have any conclusive proof from a single hadith to prove the contrary ? Can these people who are influenced by the new innovators in religion, the Wahabi/Salafi movement, deny the veracity of these miracles? If these are possible, then why is it difficult to accept the miracle that the Prophet did not possess a shadow? Do they have any conclusive proof from a single hadith to prove the contrary?

I’ll provide them with 2 ahadith – Now Barelvis can’t accuse Sayyida A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) and Sayyidduna Anas ibn Malik (Allah be pleased with him) of being influenced by Wahabi/Salafi movement!

Some authentic narrations that the Blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did NOT have a shadow.

Sayyida A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) narrates that once while the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) was on a journey, the camel of his wife Sayyida Safiyya (Allah be pleased with her) fell ill. However, his other wife Sayyida Zaynab (Allah be pleased with her) had an extra camel.

The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said to Sayyida Zaynab: “The camel of Safiyya has become ill, can you lend her your extra camel?” She replied: “should I give that Jew?” (Sayyida Safiyyah was originally a Jew). So, (upon hearing this, the Messenger of Allah became upset and) deserted her for two or three months and he would not come to her…. She says: “Until one day, at midday, I could see the shadow of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) approaching…..” **(Musnad Ahmad, 6/132) **

Sayyidduna Anas ibn Malik (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that, one night the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) led us in prayer, and whilst in prayer he stretched out his hand and then pulled it back. We said: “O Messenger of Allah! We saw you doing something in prayer that we have not seen you do before.”

The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “Indeed, Paradise was presented before me, and I saw in it, fruits that were low and near. I intended to take one but was told to holdback, thus I held back. Then Hell was presented before me until I saw my and your shadow in it, thus I gestured to you to move back.” (Mustadrak al-Hakim, 4/456 & authenticated by Imam al-Dhahabi)
Quoting from the link

From Scholars

Having read the words of those who had lived with the Prophet and had closely watched his every action, we shall now turn to some great scholars of Islam, whose writings are considered most authentic in Islamic affairs. Pay heed to these to dispel any doubts that you may have regarding the subject. All these great scholars firmly believed that the Prophet did not possess a shadow.

The link mentioned the following scholars;

I have given the relevant dates of their lives:

Qadi Iyad ibn Musa (1083–1149)
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 – 17 December 1273)
Shihab al-Din Abu’l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr al-Qastallani 1448 – 1517
Sheikh Abdul Haq Muhaddith Dehlawi also known as Al Muhaddith Sheikh Abdul Haq Dehlavi was born in 1551

The article just mentions a few Scholars, all very respectable but they are later day scholars and the article fails to mention even one scholar from the days of the Salaf – Like Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Shafii, Imam Ahmad, Imam Malik, Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, Imam Trimidhi, Ibn al-Jawzi, Imam Abu Hasan Ali ibn Ismail al-Ashari, Imam Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi, Imam Abu Ja’far Ahmad ibn Salamah at-Tahawi, Imam Muhammad al Baqir, Imam Jaffar asSadiq, Imam Muhammad Az-Zuhri, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Amr al-Awzai, Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, Qadi Abu Yusuf, Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani (may Allah have mercy on them all).

The few Scholars that I have mentioned individually carry more and scholarship then those mentioned by the article.

Also

Mushrikeen of Makkah were for ever looking to find fault with the Blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) so they could warn the people away from him.
“They would make things up, spread rumours and lies so that people would stay away from the Blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and not listen to him. At times they accused him of being a sorcerer, using magic to trick and influence people. Other times they would say that was just a madman and is talking nonsense. Or that an evil spirit possessed him so that the Arabs should ignore him and keep away from him. Or they say that he was just a poet and the message of the Qu’ran was just poetry.
If they had seen that the Blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had no shadow they would have made a huge hue and cry and taken a confirmation of him being a sorcerer possessed by evil spirits.

This has never happened and is not recorded in any seerah books.