Hadith and Authenticity
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How can the verse "And when the Horn is blown, there will be no ties of relationship between them that Day, nor will they ask about one another" be reconciled with the hadith "Every lineage and kinship will be severed on the Day of Resurrection except my lineage and kinship"? And what is the degree of authenticity of this hadith?
What is the authenticity of the hadith narrated by Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning the increase in lifespan due to maintaining kinship ties and its decrease due to severing them?
To what extent is the hadith authentic: "By My Glory and Majesty, I do not seize My believing servant, while I desire to have mercy on him, except that I test him with every sin he committed, (making it) an illness in his body, or poverty in his sustenance, or a calamity in his wealth or children, until I reduce him to the equivalent of an atom. If anything remains (of his sins), I intensify the throes of death upon him, until he meets Me as pure as the day his mother bore him"?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "A thief was brought to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him; so his hand was cut off, then he commanded it, and it was hung around his neck"?
What is the authenticity of the Hadith: "A piece of me will be buried in the land of Khurasan; no believer visits it except that Allah guarantees him Paradise and forbids his body from the Fire"?
What is the authenticity of the saying: "The grave does not open for the wretched on Wednesday," and is it a hadith or a maxim?
How could Abdullah ibn Mas'ud replace the word (الأثيم - al-atheem - the sinful) with the word (الفاجر - al-fajir - the wicked) in the verse: "Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum is the food of the sinful" [Quran 44:43], given the Messenger of Allah's ﷺ saying: "It is not for me to change it of my own accord"?
Is it reported that Gabriel descended with three banners on the day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was born, planting one on the Kaaba, another on Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and a third on the house of Amina? And what is the authenticity of this statement?
To what extent is the authenticity of the hadith "Erase it, O Ali," mentioned in the story of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah?
What is the authenticity of the narration mentioned on the authority of Anas ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, regarding the Companions gathering in circles around the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after the morning prayer to learn from him the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and the obligatory duties?
Are the phrases "Ahmad was alone in narrating it," "Ibn Majah was alone in narrating it," and "was alone in narrating it" in general, and "it was only narrated through this channel," and "no one narrated it except," and "according to the conditions of Al-Bukhari and Muslim" or one of them, definitive statements about the authenticity or weakness of the hadith, or are they merely for clarifying the chains of narration and their narrators?
What information is available concerning the locust insect, what is the wisdom behind its existence, and what is the interpretation of it being among the greatest of Allah's soldiers?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "Recite Surat Hud on Friday," which is mentioned in Musnad al-Darimi, Shu'ab al-Iman, al-Durr al-Manthur, and Fada'il Suwar al-Qur'an al-Karim?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "The best men of my Ummah are those who do not oppress their families, are kind to them, and do not wrong them"?
Is the ḥadīth: "The earths are seven. Between each earth and the one after it is a journey of five hundred years. The uppermost [earth] is upon the back of a whale whose ends meet in the sky. The whale is upon a rock, and the rock is in the hand of the angel. The second [earth] is the prison of the wind. The third has the stones of Hell. The fourth has the brimstone of Hell. The fifth has the serpents of Hell. The sixth has the scorpions of Hell. The seventh has Saqar, and therein Iblīs is chained with iron, one hand in front of him and one hand behind him. If Allah wills to release him for what He wills, He releases him," ṣaḥīḥ (sound), ḥasan (good), ḍaʿīf (weak), or mawḍūʿ (fabricated)? And does it ascend to the rank of ṣaḥīḥ or ḥasan by virtue of its aggregated chains of narration?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "Set up a tent for me by Khadijah's grave"?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "My flesh is from me, even if it be rotten," and can it be cited as evidence for those who are descendants of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, but are engaged in acts of disobedience?
What is the authenticity of the hadith: "There is no hour of night or day except that the sky rains in it, Allah directs it wherever He wills," and the hadith: "There is no year that rains more than another year"?
What is the authenticity of the Hadith about the Prophet's (PBUH) invitation to food with the young girl and the Bedouin, and who narrated it? What is meant by "the young girl" and her origin, and how did the Messenger hold her hand? What is meant by "Satan makes food lawful" and "he came with this young girl to make it lawful by her"? What did the Prophet (PBUH) mean by saying: "that my hand is in her hand along with the hand of Satan"? And what is a Bedouin, and does it have an etymological root?
What is the authenticity of the Hadith, "Whoever recites Ayatul Kursi after every prayer, nothing will prevent him from entering Paradise except death; and none is assiduous in doing so except a Siddiq (truthful one) or an Abid (worshipper). And whoever recites it when he goes to bed, Allah will grant him safety for himself, his neighbor, his neighbor's neighbor, and the houses around him," narrated from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)?
How can one act upon a Sunnah whose authenticity is presumptive and consider it part of the religion, and is the Hadith "My Ummah will not agree upon error" consecutively transmitted (mutawatir)?
Is the Hadith that mentions the arrival of people from Persia, with shaven beards and long mustaches, and the Prophet (PBUH) asking them: "Who commanded you to do this?" to which they replied: "Our Lord commanded us," and he responded: "But my Lord commanded me to trim my mustache and lengthen my beard," authentic?
Is the Hadith of the individuals narrated by continuous testimony from those other than the Companions, or not?
What is the authenticity of the Hadith narrated from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning drinking rainwater on the night of Jumu'ah while reciting specific surahs and supplications for protection and healing?