The light of the day · Tuesday 15 September
Your morning coffee has Sufi roots
Coffee spread through the world from 15th-century Yemen, where Sufis in Mocha drank qahwa to stay awake for night devotion. From their gatherings it reached Makkah, Cairo, Istanbul, and eventually every café on earth.
Yemen · 15th century
Tuesday 15 September 2026 · 2 Rabi ath-Thani 1448 AH
The word · Hadith
السَّمَاع
Sama'
Receiving a hadith by hearing it directly from a teacher, the strongest of the ways to take a report.
Scholars listed several ways of receiving hadith, in descending strength: hearing the teacher recite it, reading it back to him, a written licence, being handed a manuscript, correspondence, and finding a book with no licence at all. The wording of a chain tells you which way was used, so haddathana means he narrated to us in person, while akhbarana usually signals that it was read back to him.
The Path · chapter 37 of 71
طلع البدر
Madinah Entry: City of Light
The children sang. The brotherhood of Muhajirun and Ansar was established.
He entered as a ruler could not: buying from orphans what he could have taken as tribute
The library
The whole library, free
No ads, no account, no tracking. Every room on the phone, under the thumb.