Lesson 7 - Hadeeth 4 Of Nawawi 40 - Stages Of Man
As usual, you may need the Explanation of Nawawi's 40 Hadeeths by Shyakh Al-Uthaymeen to answer the questions. If you are not memorising the hadeeths, then you might wish to skip the first two questions.
- 1.Who does Abdullaah ibn Masood, the Companion, describe as "the truthful, the believed one"?
- A.
Allaah's Messenger (sall Allaahu alaihi wa sallam)
- B.
The angel Jibreel
- C.
The ten Companions promised Paradise
- D.
The ten imams
- 2.If a baby dies before reaching 40+40+40 days (4 months), then Islamically:
- A.
It is not given the rulings of a living person
- B.
It must be washed ceremonially
- C.
It must be buried
- D.
It must be prayed over
- 3.Which of these statements can be understood from the hadeeth? (2 correct)
- A.
There is an angel assigned to the womb.
- B.
Angels cause life and do need Allaah to specifically command this.
- C.
The soul of each of us has been breathed into us by an angel sent by Allaah.
- D.
The soul is breathed into a baby at the time of its birth.
- E.
It is an evil statement to say that an angel breathed life into a human. It is Allaah who breathes the soul into each one of us.
- F.
The souls of the righteous are breathed into them by angels but the souls of the sinful people are blown into them by devils (shayaateen).
- 4.Which of these are written about a person while they are still only a baby in their mother's womb? (One or more may be correct.)
- A.
Its provision
- B.
Its lifespan
- C.
Its actions
- D.
Whether it will be a wretched person or a person of complete happiness
- E.
Nothing is written down at this stage
- 5.Only one of these statements is true. Which is it?
- A.
The lifespan has been written down so if we were to take medicines when we became ill, this would show that we did not believe in predecree.
- B.
Our actions have been written down - when we do actions then we do so because we were forced to do so. We have no free will.
- C.
When we do good deeds, we should be confident that we will enter Paradise.
- D.
We should have fear and dread that we may not enter the Hellfire. This should make us do more good deeds.
- 6.Interesting fact! This hadeeth and the last one are both found in the hadeeth collections of Al-Bukhari and Muslim. The narrator of both this hadeeth and the last one have something in common too. They
- A.
Were both called Abu Abdirrahmaan Abdullaah
- B.
Were both sons of Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him)
- C.
Narrated about a hundred hadeeth each
- D.
Were both brothers-in-law of the Messenger (sall Allaahu alaihi wa sallam)
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