Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
A son of Banjar studied for more than thirty years in Mecca and Medina. On his way home in 1772 CE he corrected the qiblah of mosques in Batavia; in his homeland he dug a canal for farmers and wrote Sabil al-Muhtadin — a book of jurisprudence whose name now graces the largest mosque in Banjarmasin. The forty-third book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Shaykh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari. “Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”
“Say, ‘Are those who know equal to those who do not know?’”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of jurisprudence, astronomy & history
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The story of Shaykh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari — 22 chapters with Qur’anic verses, authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, the four companions, a qiblah calculation, Hijri and Gregorian calendars, the journey of Sabil al-Muhtadin, history notes marked separately, a glossary and reflection questions.