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Is it obligatory for a Muslim to learn and memorize the sciences of the Quran and the Prophetic biography in detail, and specific hadiths such as the descriptions of the Dajjal and the Mahdi and the details of the Day of Judgment, and does this fall under the category of seeking obligatory knowledge?

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This falls under the category of seeking knowledge that is obligatory to learn as a collective duty (fard kifaya), and it is not an individual obligation (fard ayn) upon every single member of the Ummah.

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