> Only Fools and Fools [funny moments in Islamic history]

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There is a book compiled by Shaykh Ahmad Ali from Bradford which has a record of some true funny incidents which have been recorded in some classical texts!

I'll post some of them here from the book insha'Allah.

"Hija's father made intentions for Hajj. As his father was about to depart, Hija, who was feeling very sentimental, said "Father do not spend long and try to return on big Eid, so you can make Qurbani with us".




[originally posted by bro Far7an on islamicboard.com]

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Once someone stole the door of Abu Salim's house. He in turn stole the door of the Masjid. "What are you doing?" the people asked. He replied "The owner of this door knows who stole my door."

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Ibn Josey relates that my friend informed me that a man married a woman who was very short in size. The people questioned, "What have you done?" So he replied "A woman is evil, the less the evil, the better."

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This book is a brief summry of a book called "Akhbarul Hamqa Wal Mogafaleen" by Ibn Jawzi Hafiz Jamal ud-Din Abdul Rahman.

The chain of narration and authenticity may be cited in the original.

By the way, it is mentioned in the book that one of the reasons Ibn Jawzi compiled this work was so that an intellectual could read these stories and realise from them the value of intellect, appreciate and thank Allah for the great blessing.

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"There was a Bedouin who lived near a river. One night he had a bad dream on a cold night. He was not prepared to have a bath with cold water, so he searched for his bucket in order to warm the water. he failed to find it, so he took off his clothes and swam to the other side of the cold river to fetch a bucket. He returned with a bucket, again via the cold river and then warmed the water and had a bath."

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A man wanted to circumcise his child, so he told the barber "Please take it easy, he has not had this done before".

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asalam alaikum


someone asked whether there was a mistake in Ibn Josey, and it could really be ibn al jawzi. the response by bro Far7an was;

I don't think it was Ibn al Jawzi, because it has name in another part of the book and it is spelt correctly. I can only assume it's someone else?

Allahu a'lam

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An old man was standing next to the door of a Masjid. The Muezzin, on observing his respectable image asked him to lead the prayer. The old man refused, and therefore the Muezzin himself led the prayer. After the prayer, the Muezzin said to the old man, "Baba, if you have led the prayer we would have given you something." The old man replied, "I could not accept the role of Imam if I am not in a state of wudhu".

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An individual had heard that the fast of Ashura is equivalent to the fasting of the whole year. He fasted for half of a day believeing this would suffice him for six months.

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A fool was informed that his donkey was stolen, he overwhelmingly remarked "Thank God that I was not riding on it."