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: by his own account he kept a small kitten to play with while tending his people's flock, and so they called him Abu Hurayrah.

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) Blacksmith

Answer · why

B) Watchmaker

Watchmaker was his trade, but al-Albani was arrested twice in Syria and eventually left the country for Jordan.

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) Effort

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, asked about ihsan, the Prophet says 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, the Prophet replied; once the visitor had gone, he revealed that the stranger was Gabriel, come to teach them their religion.

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 is one sign, yet asked when the Hour would come, the Prophet said the one questioned knew no more about it than the questi...