Tarawih: A Zaidi perspective

Ramadan Kareem to all our readers!
Imam Rassi Society has just sent us a detailed article describing the Zaidi position on Tarawih prayers in Ramadan. Also, an article about Ramadan itself. To read these articles, please click on the link to our new website: www.zaidiblog.com

English Translation of Zaidi Book on Fasting

A Book on Fasting has just been translated into English by scholars at the Imam Rassi Society. Below is the title of the Book and the Table of Contents. To read the new translation, please go to our sister blog, www.zaydiyyah.wordpress.com
You will also find English translations of books about Zaidi Credal Statements, Prayer (Salaat), Wudhu (Purity), Funeral rituals, and Imamate at the same blog. For Spanish translations, go to www.zaydi.org, a brand new website created by Zaidis in Chile.
Thanks Imam Rassi Society for making these important Zaidi books accessable to Zaidis outside the Arabian Peninsula!

An Abridgement of the School of the Two Imams:
The Star of the Messenger’s Family, al-Qāsim bin Ibrahim and
The Guide to Truth, Yahya bin al-Hussein
(Book of Fasting)
By
Imam al-Muayyad Billah, Ahmed bin al-Hussein bin Harūn

Translation of: Tajrīd Madhhab al-Imāmayn: An-Najm Āl ar-Rasūl, al-Qāsim bin Ibrāhīm wa al-Hādi ila al-Haqq, Yahya bin al-Hussein (Kitāb aš-Šiyām)

Book of Fasting

1. Concerning the Manner of Entering the Fasting
2. Concerning the Recommended and Disliked Actions during a Fast
3. Concerning the Recommended and Disliked Fasts
4. Concerning That Which Invalidates the Fast, Does Not Invalidate the Fast, and What Obligates a Sacrifice
5. Concerning the Fast of Oaths, Unlawful Declarations (az-zihār), and Unintentional Homicide
6. Concerning Making up the Fast
7. Concerning Religious Confinement (al-I’tikaaf) and the Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr).

Zaidi Prayer (Salaat) Rituals, by Early Zaidi Scholar

Here is the Contents page of the translation of an early Zaidi book about Salaat (Prayer), Wudhu (Ablutions), and Funeral rituals.
To read the entire book, click on the following link:

http://zaydiyyah.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/zaidi-book-about-prayer-salaat-and-other-rituals/

Sources of Collected Rulings Pertaining to the Proofs of the Permissible and Prohibited:

The Book of Ritual Purity, The Book of Prayer, and the Book of Funeral Rites

By
Imam al-Mutawakkil ‗ala Allah Ahmed bin Sulaymān

CONTENTS:

(a) Translator’s Introduction.
(b) Author’s Biography.
(c) Content (summary) of the book.
(d) The Translation of the text:

Part 1:
The Book of Ritual Purity

Chapter 1A: Water:
Chapter 1B: Cleansing the Private Parts (Istinjā)
Chapter 1C: The Attributes of Purity and Its Obligations
Chapter 1D: Washing the Hands
Chapter 1E: Wiping the Head
Chapter 1F: Washing the Feet
Chapter 1G: What Obligates Ablution
Chapter 1H: Purification

Part 2:
The Book of Prayer

Chapter 2A: Call to Prayer (al-adhān) and the Pre-Prayer Call (al-iqāma)
by Clean Earth (at-Tayammum)
Chapter 2B: Prayer Times
Chapter 2C: Combining the Prayers
Chapter 2D: The Characteristics of the Prayer and Its Manner
Chapter 2E: The Testimony of Faith (at-Tashahhud) and the Salutation (at-Taslīm)
Chapter 2F: The Introductory Orientation (at-Tawjih)
Chapter 2G: The Recitation of Bismillah ar-Rahmān ar-Rahīm (al-Basmala)
Chapter 2H: The Appearance of the Prayer
Chapter 2I: Leading the Prayer
Chapter 2J: Regarding the Prostration of Forgetfulness
Chapter 2K: Regarding the Prostration of Forgetfulness
Chapter 2L: Making Up the Prayers
Chapter 2M: The Travelling Prayer and Fear Prayer
Chapter 2N: The Friday Prayer and the Two Festival (‗Eidayn) Prayers
Chapter 2o: The Eclipse Prayer and the Rain Prayer


Part 3: Funeral Rituals.

Chapter 3A: Preparing the Dead
Chapter 3B: Shrouding and Embalming the Dead
Chapter 3C: Praying over the Dead
Chapter 3D: Concerning the Burial

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