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Let some incidents talk before I make comments on Prophet’s ﷺ teaching style. According to a hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah (R), a Bedouin came and stood urinating in the mosque. The Companions of the Messenger of Allah said: 'Stop it!' but the Messenger of Allah said: "Do not interrupt him; leave...

This article attempts to depict the nature of a typical Sunni scholar, taking Ibn Ḥajar al-Haitamī (909 A.H/1503 C.E-974/1566) as an example. An archetypal scholar- as labelled by Aaron Spevack- is a jurist, theologian, and mystic adhering to any established school of the three branches of Islamic intellectual...