Q 01/05

Abu Hurayrah, a Daws tribesman who joined the Prophet in 629, had a kunya meaning father of which animal?

A) Kitten

B) Lamb

C) Falcon

D) Puppy

Answer · why

A) Kitten

Kitten: he was said to have found a stray kitten and carried it in his sleeve, which earned him the name Abu Hurayrah. His given name was most likely ...

Q 02/05

Which trade did the hadith critic Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, born in Shkodër in 1914, practise in Damascus?

A) Bookbinder

B) Watchmaker

C) Tailor

D) Carpenter

Answer · why

B) Watchmaker

Watchmaker, like his father: al-Albani repaired clocks for a living while re-grading the hadith canon, and he died in Amman in 1999 holding the King F...

Q 03/05

Sahih al-Bukhari opens with a report, also first in al-Nawawi's Forty, saying the reward of deeds depends on what?

A) Sincerity

B) Knowledge

C) Intentions

D) Patience

Answer · why

C) Intentions

Intentions: 'the reward of deeds depends upon the intentions', so a migration made for a woman's hand counts only as that. Umar ibn al-Khattab is its ...

Q 04/05

In the hadith of Gabriel, a stranger in white asks the Prophet about ihsan; the reply is to worship God how?

A) Five times a day

B) With a humble heart

C) In the congregation

D) As if you see Him

Answer · why

D) As if you see Him

As if you see Him, 'for though you cannot see Him, yet He sees you'. The visitor with jet-black hair and no sign of travel was Gabriel, who had come t...

Q 05/05

In the hadith of Gabriel, one sign of the Hour is barefoot, destitute goat-herds competing with one another in what?

A) Constructing tall buildings

B) Breeding fine horses

C) Hoarding gold coins

D) Reciting long poems

Answer · why

A) Constructing tall buildings

Constructing tall buildings: the herders are foretold 'vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings', a line much quoted in mod...