The word · Law & life
مَنْدوب
Mandub
The technical term in legal theory for a recommended act: the same idea as mustahabb.
Also written · Mandoob · Manduub · Mendub · Mandub ilayh · recommended · commendable · encouraged act · Sunnah muakkadah · nafl · supererogatory
The meaning
What Mandub means in Islam
Literally, something invited or called to. Legal theorists prefer mandub, while practical books of fiqh usually say mustahabb or simply sunnah. Hanafis grade the recommended further, into sunnah mu'akkadah, which the Prophet kept up consistently, and mustahabb or nafl, which he did from time to time. On that grading, habitually dropping a sunnah mu'akkadah is blameworthy, though it is not sin in the way abandoning a fard is.
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Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- MustahabbRecommended: rewarded if done, with no blame for leaving it.مُسْتَحَبّ
- MakruhDisliked but not forbidden: leaving it is rewarded, doing it brings no sin.مَكْروه
- MubahNeutral: neither rewarded nor blamed, permitted and left entirely to your choice.مُباح
- HanafiThe school of Abu Hanifah, the most widely followed, known for careful reasoning and analogy.المَذْهَبُ الحَنَفِيّ
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