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Discuss Latest News/Events / Bush Pardons Himself Against Potential Warcrimes

« on: January 20, 2008, 03:37:51 PM »

Peace all,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc


Abdelilah Arraudi

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Projects / Conferences / Events / Free-minds t-shirt

« on: December 27, 2007, 11:46:40 AM »

Peace,


Did anyone know about this? Good idea (by Natu?).

http://www.zazzle.com/www_free_minds_org_shirt-235296208039549115


Abdelilah Arraudi

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Health & Fitness / Bruce Lee

« on: December 03, 2007, 02:48:51 PM »

Peace,

http://www.blitzsport.com/prodinfo.asp?number=28-341

I bought "The Art Of Expressing The Human Body" couple of months ago. A book compiled by John Little. For those who don't know who he is;
well, Little is a bodybuilding expert and by the way the only person who has ever been authorized to review the entirety of Lee’s personal notes, sketches, and reading annotations.

For the past seven years I've been hard at work compiling all (and I mean ALL) of Bruce Lee's training programs,
notes and annotations on physical training for a book series that, like Lee's training methods, has proved to be constantly evolving.
And what amazes me after having looked through all of his materials is just how thorough his knowledge of training actually was.

The book starts with an introduction, a chapter on isometrics, followed by all the training routines (in chronological order) Bruce Lee used. Every time he gained more knowledge on the topic and felt the current routine wasn't up to his standards, he created a new one. After going through all the routines in detail, the book dedicates a complete chapter to abdominals (perhaps the most visually striking muscles of Lee) and one chapter to forearms (Lee was a forearm fanatic). Then it lists the best exercises for different body parts. After that a chapter titled The Tao Of Flexibility, listing a couple of stretching exercises and explaining why/when/how one should stretch. Next chapter is about cardiovascular training which Bruce considered to be "real-world power". Then a chapter titled Applied Power: training with the heavy bag, followed by an interval training program. After that a chapter titled Fueling The Dragon (nutrition). Well, after seeing the tremendous muscular definition of Lee's body, one could be forgiven for assuming that he was an expert in (among other things) nutrition. He didn't give the subject more than a cursory investigation. The task fell to Lee's wife, Linda, to assume the responibility for preparing the food. According to Linda, "I was the one who did more research in the field of nutrition because, truthfully, Bruce couldn't boil water - nor did he care to learn."

Well, any Bruce Lee fan knows that Lee's physique looked its most defined/"ripped" during the movie Enter The Dragon.
Not that his muscles looked any bigger or more shapely, but the level of definition they had acquired was absolutely astounding.
Even bodybuilding magnate Joe Weider, the man responsible for bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger to the United States, and someone who has "seen them all" told Little that he had "never seen a level of muscular definition to equal that of Bruce Lee in the photographs I've seen of him in Enter The Dragon."
Why did his physique look leaner and more defined, with each muscle group standing out in bold relief? The only contributing factor (Lee's diet and aerobic and activity level had not changed) was his acquisition in December 1972, and subsequent implementation into his daily training, of a multi-exercise weight-training machine called the Marcy Circuit Trainer.

So I (inspired by Lee) decided, 35 years later, to buy myself a multi-station homegym.
The Bodycraft K1 http://en.helisports.nl/homegyms/BodyCraft-K1-Home-Gym.html.
Plus a heavy bag and abshaper http://en.helisports.nl/abshapers.html.

To be honest, I've never really paid attention to my body/health/diet. But I must say that I've always been in great shape. For example, during my school years I've always been the best in literally everything at gym class. I'm 1m70 (Lee was 5' 7½" = 1m71). I weigh 58kg (Lee's lowest weight was 125lbs = 57kg). I'm not comparing myself to Bruce Lee, because this numbers say nothing. But  even though I can count all the workouts I did in my life on one hand, I'm in good shape, and if you saw me you'd think I work out daily. Anyway, I'll stop bragging now.

I hope we can share ideas here on training methods.
What routine do you follow? What are your goals*, achievements...?
Who is in favor of or opposed to weight machines, who is for free weights?
...

*I guess my goal is clear enough for all 


Abdelilah Arraudi

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Archeology & History / The Islamic Origins Debate Goes Public

« on: November 26, 2007, 01:11:34 PM »

Peace,

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/compass/hico_058.pdf


Abdelilah Arraudi

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Archeology & History / Studies In Late Antiquity And Early Islam (series)

« on: November 25, 2007, 08:22:44 PM »

Peace,

Before I was going to order it I wanted to know what the reviews said; I'm talkin about the book "Seeing Islam As Others Saw It" by Robert G. Hoyland.
This is how I found out about the series and I thought I'd share it with you.




Vol. 01 -   The Byzantine And Early Islamic Near East (papers of workshops on Late Antiquity And Early Islam edited by A. Cameron, L.I. Conrad, G.R.D. King and J. Haldon)

      1.1 Problems In The Literary Source Materials
      1.2 Land Use And Settlement Patterns
      1.3 States, Resources, and Armies
      1.4 Patterns Of Communal Identity
      1.5 Trade and Exchange
      1.6 Elites Old And New

Vol. 02 -   The Christian Communities Of Palestine From Byzantine To Islamic Rule: A Historical And Archaeological Study [Robert Schick]

Vol. 03 -   The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study [Albrecht Noth, Lawrence I. Conrad]

Vol. 04 -   Studies In Early Islamic History [Martin Hinds, Jere L. Bacharach, Lawrence I. Conrad, Patricia Crone]

Vol. 05 -   The Eye Of The Beholder: The Life Of Muhammad As Viewed By The Early Muslims - A Textual Analysis [Uri Rubin]

Vol. 06 -   Saints Syriaques [Jean-Maurice Fiey]

Vol. 07 -   A Gateway To Hell, A Gateway To Paradise: The North African Response To The Arab Conquests [Elizabeth Savage]

Vol. 08 -   Arabs And Others In Early Islam [Sulayman Bashir]

Vol. 09 -   History Of Historiography In Early Islamic Times: Studies & Perspectives [Lawrence I. Conrad]

Vol. 10 -   Continuatio Of The Samaritan Chronicle Of Abu L'Fath Al Samiri Al Danafi [Al Samiri Abu Al Fath Ibn ABi AL Hasan, Milka Levy-Rubin]

Vol. 11 -   The Earliest Biographies Of The Prophet And Their Authors [Josef Horovitz, Lawrence I. Conrad]

Vol. 12 -   ...?

Vol. 13 -   Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey And Evaluation Of Christian, Jewish And Zoroastrian Writings On Early Islam [Robert G. Hoyland]

Vol. 14 -   Narratives Of Islamic Origin: The Beginnings Of Islamic Historical Writing [Fred McGraw Donner]

Vol. 15 -   ...?

Vol. 16 -   ...?

Vol. 17 -   Between Bible And Quran: The Children Of Israel And The Islamic Self-Image [Uri Rubin]

Vol. 18 -   ...?

Vol. 19 -   Lonely Wayfarer's Guide To Pilgrimage [Josef W. Meri, Ali Ibn Bakr Harawi]

Vol. 20 -   Ibn Asakir And Early Islamic History [James E. Lindsay]

Vol. 21 -   Studies In Muslim Apocalyptic [David Cook]

Vol. 22 -   ...?

Vol. 23 -   Constitution Of Medina [Michael Lecker]

Vol. ?? -   Das Kitab Al-Amwal Des Abu 'Ubaid Al-Qasim B. Sallam: Entstehung Und Uberlieferung Eines Fruhislamischen Rechtswerkes... [Andreas Gorke]

Vol. ?? -   Muhammadanea Edessensis: The Rise Of Islam In Eastern Christian Historiography Under The Early 'Abbasids [Lawrence I. Conrad]


P.S. : Btw, I received my copy a week ago or so. Still have to read it though.



Abdelilah Arraudi

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Discuss Latest News/Events / Aaron Russo Interviewed Ron Paul Before Passing Away

« on: October 18, 2007, 04:53:31 PM »

America: Freedom to Fascism is a compelling and troubling account of how the wealth of our nation was
silently passed from its citizens to a handful of powerful bankers in 1913. That's the year the Federal Reserve Act
and the 16th Amendment were introduced, giving a privately held corporation the means to control our finances
while ensuring its interest payments through the strong arms of the newly-formed Internal Revenue Service.
Ever since then, Russo suggests, Americans have been gradually conditioned to accept fewer freedoms and a lower standard of living...
all the while considering debt and servitude as distinctly American values.

Russo's first and most cogent point is simple: Americans are not required to pay a federal income tax.
That's a bold statement to make, as few people believe that such a fraud could be perpetrated for so long.
My father, himself an accountant, insists that the income tax is a very real thing. Russo takes that same belief
to IRS employees and simply asks them to cite where it says an unapportioned income tax is required of us all.
Guess what? They can't. In a telling segment Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the IRS, goes so far as to
reject Supreme Court rulings and the Constitution as benchmarks over what is legal with regards to taxation.
Russo also interviews members of the tax honesty movement as well as disenfranchised IRS agents who agree
that no law on the books conjures up a requirement to send the government part of one's hard-earned paycheck.
Russo then showcases court cases where those accused of tax evasion have won precisely because the prosecution
cannot provide evidence of a legal federal income tax law.

It's shocking to have it hammered into your head over and over that you've thrown your money away for nothing,
but repetition is good; it helps knock loose the deeply entrenched belief that we owe a portion of our livelihood to our government.

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/



Abdelilah

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Discuss Latest News/Events / The American Occupation of Iraq - The Inside Story From the Ultimate Insiders

« on: October 18, 2007, 01:31:16 PM »

http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/

                                                                                NOW PLAYIN IN SELECT THEATRES


Abdelilah

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Questions/Comments on the Quran / "My people have deserted this reading"

« on: May 17, 2006, 12:39:48 PM »

Peace,

And the messenger said: "My Lord, my people have deserted this reading."

This verse on its own could just be saying that people don't read it,
(like most "muslims" nowadays) or don't believe in it anymore.

But reading the surrounding verses I think it's more saying that people
deserted it by following something else:

And that Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hand
and say: "I wish I had taken the path with the messenger!"
"Woe unto me, I wish I did not take so and so as a friend!"
"He has misguided me from the remembrance after it came to me,
and the devil was always a betrayer of mankind!"
And the messenger said: "My Lord, my people have deserted this reading."
And it is such that We make for every prophet enemies from among the criminals.
And your Lord suffices as a Guide and a Victor.
25:27-31

People deserted the great reading by not taking the path with the messenger
and taking the enemies of the prophet as "friends",
letting themselves be deceived by their fabrications
even when The God suffices as a Guide.

We have permitted the enemies of every prophet...
to inspire in each other with fancy words in order to deceive...
You shall disregard them and their fabrications.
That is so the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter will listen to it,
and they will accept it, and they will take of it what they will.
"Shall I seek other than God as a judge when He has sent down to you this scripture fully detailed?"
6:112-114


Abdelilah

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Free-Minds.Org / ProgressiveMuslims.Org / Know Thy Enemy!

« on: May 15, 2006, 07:29:37 AM »

Peace,

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?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? * [(? ? 35) ? 6]

I checked the article several times using different PC's but still no Arabic.

http://www.free-minds.org/arabic2.htm

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Abdelilah

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Hadith Discussions / The Fly, the Monkey and the Dog.

« on: March 29, 2006, 12:05:28 PM »

Peace all,

Most misguide by their desires without knowledge...


1 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said:
'If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink),
for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537)
 
2 -
Narrated Anas:
Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam.
The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go
to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine).
They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy)
they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels
and took the camels away...
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 8, Book 82, Number 794)
 
3 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying:
'There is healing in black cumin for all diseases except death.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 592)
 
4 -
Narrated 'Amr bin Maimun:
During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey
surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it,
because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse.
I too, stoned it along with them.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 5, Book 58, Number 188)
 
5 -
Abu Dharr reported:
The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said:
'When any one of you stands for prayer and there is a thing before him
equal to the back of the saddle that covers him and in case there is not
before him (a thing) equal to the back of the saddle, his prayer would be
cut off by (passing of an) ass, woman, and black dog.'
I said: 'O Abu Dharr, what feature is there in a black dog
which distinguish it from the red dog and the yellow dog?'
He said: 'O, son of my brother, I asked the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) as you are asking me, and he said:
The black dog is a devil.'
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 004, Number 1032)
 
6 -
Abdullah (b. Umar) (Allah be pleased with them) reported:
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) ordered the killing of dogs
and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare
any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that
accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 010, Number 3811)
 
7 -
Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said:
'He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.'
[comment: is this because playing chess sets you to think?]
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 028, Number 5612)
 
8 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said:
'The saying subhanallah is for men and clapping is for women.'
(Sahih Boekhari Volume 2, Book 22, Number 295)
 
9 -
Narrated Muhammad bin Sirin:
One of the sons of Um 'Atiyya died, and when it was the third day
she asked for a yellow perfume and put it over her body, and said:
'We were forbidden to mourn for more than three days except for our husbands.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 2, Book 23, Number 369)
 
10 -
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer)
of 'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said:
'O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire
were you (women).' They asked: 'Why is it so, O Allah's Apostle?'
He replied: 'You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands.
I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you.
A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.'
The women asked: 'O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?'
He said: 'Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?'
They replied in the affirmative. He said: 'This is the deficiency in her intelligence.
Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?'
The women replied in the affirmative. He said: 'This is the deficiency in her religion'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301)
 
11 -
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said: 'Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?'.
The women said: 'Yes.' He said: 'This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 3, Book 48, Number 826)
 
12 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said:
'If a woman spends the night deserting her husband's bed (does not sleep with him),
then the angels send their curses on her till she comes back (to her husband)'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 122)
 
13 -
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said:
'When a woman spends the night away from the bed of her husband, the angels curse her until morning'.
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 008, Number 3366)
 
14 -
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
'By Him in Whose Hand is my life, when a man calls his wife to his bed, and she does not respond,
the One Who is in the heaven is displeased with her until he (her husband) is pleased with her'.
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 008, Number 3367)
 
15 -
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet said:
'A woman should not travel for more than three days except with a dhi-mahram'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 2, Book 20, Number 192)
 
16 -
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Zam'a:
The Prophet said: 'None of you should flog his wife as he flogs a slave and then
have sexual intercourse with her in the last part of the day'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 132)
 
17 -
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Zam'a:
The Prophet forbade laughing at a person who passes wind, and said:
'How does anyone of you beat his wife as he beats the stallion camel and then
he may embrace (sleep with) her?' And Hisham said: 'As he beats his slave'.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 8, Book 73, Number 68)
 
18 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said: 'A woman should not fast (optional fasts) except
with her husband's permission if he is at home (staying with her).'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 120)
 
19 -
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said:
'It is not lawful for a lady to fast (nawafil) without the permission of her husband
when he is at home; and she should not allow anyone to enter his house except
with his permission; and if she spends of his wealth (on charitable purposes)
without being ordered by him, he will get half of the reward.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 123)
 
20 -
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That during the battle with Bani Al-Mustaliq they (muslims) captured some females
and intended to have sexual relation with them without impregnating them. So they
asked the Prophet about coitus interrupt us. The Prophet said: 'It is better that you
should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of
Resurrection.' Qaza'a said: 'I heard Abu Sa'id saying that the Prophet said:
'No soul is ordained to be created but Allah will create it.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 9, Book 93, Number 506)
 
21 -
Narrated Jabir:
We used to practice coitus interrupt us while the Quran was being revealed.
Jabir added: 'We used to practice coitus interrupt us during the lifetime of
Allah's Apostle while the Quran was being revealed.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 136)
 
22 -
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
We got female captives in the war booty and we used to do coitus interruptus
with them. So we asked Allah's Apostle about it and he said: 'Do you really do that?',
repeating the question thrice. 'There is no soul that is destined to exist but will come
into existence, till the Day of Resurrection.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 7, Book 62, Number 137)
 
23 -
Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) saw a woman,
and so he came to his wife, Zainab, as she was tanning a leather and had
sexual intercourse with her. He then went to his Companions and told them:
'The woman advances and retires in the shape of a devil, so when one of you
sees a woman, he should come to his wife, for that will repel what he feels in his heart.'
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 008, Number 3240)
 
24 -
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as having said:
'A woman without a husband (or divorced or a widow) must not be married until she is consulted,
and a virgin must not be married until her permission is sought.' They asked the Prophet of Allah
(may peace be upon him): 'How can her (virgin's) consent be solicited?' He said: 'That she keeps silence.'
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 008, Number 3303)
 
25 -
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported:
Woman has been created from a rib and will in no way be straightened for you;
so if you wish to benefit by her, benefit by her while crookedness remains in her.
And if you attempt to straighten her, you will break her, and breaking her is divorcing her.
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 008, Number 3467)
 
26 -
Narrated Ibrahim bin Sad from his father from his grand-father:
Abdur Rahman bin Auf said: 'When we came to Medina as emigrants, Allah's Apostle
established a bond of brotherhood between me and Sad bin Ar-Rabi'. Sad bin Ar-Rabi'
said (to me): 'I am the richest among the Ansar, so I will give you half of my wealth and
you may look at my two wives and whichever of the two you may choose I will divorce her,
and when she has completed the prescribed period (before marriage) you may marry her.' ...
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 3, Book 34, Number 264)
 
27 -
Narrated Anas:
Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam.
The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go
to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine).
They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy)
they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels
and took the camels away. The Prophet sent (some people) in their pursuit
and so they were (caught and) brought, and the Prophet ordered that their hands
and legs should be cut off and that their eyes should be branded with heated pieces
of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they die.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 8, Book 82, Number 794)
 
28 -
Narrated 'Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle said:
'The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped
but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases:
in Qisas for murder;
a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse;
and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 9, Book 83, Number 17)
 
29 -
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
The Prophet performed ablution by washing the body parts only once.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 4, Number 159)
 
30 -
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Zaid:
The Prophet performed ablution by washing the body parts twice.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 4, Number 160)
 
31 -
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) made
a mention of Dajjil in the presence of the people and said:
'Allah is not one-eyed and behold that Dajjal is blind of the right eye
and his eye would be like a floating grape.'
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 041, Number 7005)
 
32 -
Hudhalfa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
'Dajjal is blind of the left eye with thick hair and there would be a garden and fire
with him and his fire would be a garden and his garden would be fire.'
(Sahih Moeslim - Book 041, Number 7010)
 
33 -
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet once spat in his clothes.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 4, Number 242)
 
34 -
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
Allah's Apostle drank milk, rinsed his mouth and said: 'It has fat.'
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 4, Number 210)
 
35 -
Narrated Abu Musa:
Once the Prophet asked for a tumbler containing water.
He washed his hands and face in it and also threw a mouthful of water in it.
(Sahih Boekhari - Volume 1, Book 4, Number 195)
 
 
Source:
 
Sahih Boekhari ( http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/ )
translated by M. Muhsin Khan.
 
Sahih Muslim ( http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/ )
translated by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.
 
 
Wilson