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1/3 The monitor lizard's scientific Latin name is 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒔. This comes from dialectal Arabic وَرَن (𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛) which comes from Classical Arabic وَرَل (𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑙).
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Excited to be at @TelAvivUni today for the MindIL Computer Science conference, presenting our poster on “SHAMS: SHami Annotated Multi-dialectal Speech”
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Access on my GitHub the Riwāyāt corpus, the largest online corpus of Islamic traditions, which contains around 1M traditions, from both Sunni and Shi'i sources.
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The Prophet had a mosque in Medina with 2 qiblas (prayer niches), 1 facing Jerusalem & 1 facing Mecca. The 2 qiblas remained through Umayyad times until al-Mansur’s reign (754-775 CE), when the superfluous qibla was removed to avoid confusion. Here’s why it had 2… 🧵[1/6]
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Alternatively, in both cases, the story about Muslims switching direction mid-prayer is a dramatic invention meant to highlight the Muslims’ willingness & eagerness to adopt Mecca as THE direction of prayer. [5/6]
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Whatever the case, at least 2 early mosques retained physical evidence of the switch from Jerusalem to Mecca, by having two different mihrabs (prayer niches) facing 2 different holy cities. FIN [6/6] Pictured: niche for Torah scrolls in the Dura Europus synagogue [Wikimedia]
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My article "Early Sunni Witnesses to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq’s Teachings" has been published in the Festschrift in honor of Etan Kohlberg (message me for a copy) brill.com/display/book/97890…
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Replying to @MARazack26
مع الاحترام لابن رجب فمن الجدير بالذكر أن غلام خليل ربما لا يكون الوحيد الذي ينسب هذا الحديث للزهري فإنا نجد عند ابن سعد أنه ينسب نفس الحديث (أو حديثا شبيها به) للزهري عبر ثلاثة من تلاميذه الآخرين ومع أننا لا نعرف بالضبط ما متن حديث الثلاثة من الممكن أنه قريب من حديث غلام خليل
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من يهتم بشخصية غلام خليل كمحدث فأنصح قراءة ثْريدي هذا القديم xitter.cf/hadithworks/status/166…
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@hadithworks23 May 2023
1/14 Do Hadith transmitters influence the contents of the traditions they transmit? A little case study from al-Qushayrī’s “Epistle on Sufism” (transmitted 438/1045) & from “the Malady of the Hearts” by al-Kharāʾiṭī (d. 327/938).🧵
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An Authentic Letter from the Prophet? Kister & Son (1979) hold as authentic a letter where the Prophet appears to establish the Islamic Friday prayer in correspondance with the Medinan Jews' veneration of the Sabbath.
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I side with the Kisters: The letter's core is likely authentic & it originally referred to the Jews "raising their voices" (تجهر), not to "preparation" (تجهز). Still, as they suggest, the version they cite by al-Suhayli seems to have some interpolations. Compare other versions:
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Link to the Kisters' article: jstor.org/stable/23595016
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🟢Thesis: the harth ("ploughed field") in Q 21:78 is a nabt ("a field where plants grew") 🔵Antithesis: No, it's a karm ("vineyard") 🔵🟢Synthesis: It's a karm ("vineyard") that anbatat ("grew") grape clusters.
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Note how the synthesizing, i.e., most developed view also has the most developed isnad on the authority of the Companion Ibn Mas'ud. This is a good example of isnad growth or back projection
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A hadith for Sukkot:
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A hadith: A woman was framed for fornication by having egg-whites🥚 sprinkled on her & claimed that it's semen ᯡᯡᯡ Solomon vindicated her by heating the egg-whites, turning them into an omelet 🍳 & proving it wasn't semen. A similar story is found in the Talmud about a rabbi
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I found the reference to Ibn al-Qayyim in Baskin's chapter:
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A similar story about 'Ali b. Abi Talib:
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@hadithworksAug 28
Did Abu Hurayra forget a verse of the Qur'an? Once he heard the Prophet use the word "sikkin" (knife🔪) in a story. He said that this was the 1st time he heard this word, as his tribe's dialect used a different one "mudya". But the word "sikkin" appears in Surat Yusuf! [1/3]🧵
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Did Abu Hurayra forget a verse of the Qur'an? Once he heard the Prophet use the word "sikkin" (knife🔪) in a story. He said that this was the 1st time he heard this word, as his tribe's dialect used a different one "mudya". But the word "sikkin" appears in Surat Yusuf! [1/3]🧵
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A different solution to this problem is found in a report recorded by the Maliki scholar al-'Utbi (d. 869). There Abu Hurayra claimed that he 1st heard the word sikkin🔪 in Surat Yusuf. Al-Damamini, also a Maliki, maybe wasn't aware of al-'Utbi's report [3/3]
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Arabic "sikkin" is most likely a loanword from Aramaic (see Jeffery's note). It's interesting that this foreign word appears in the Qur'anic retelling of the story of Joseph and in the Prophet's retelling of the story of Solomon's judgement in a hadith.
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