Last 10 Days Halaqah
Date and time is TBD
|GCLEA
Spend the last 10 days of Ramadan purifying your heart and strengthening your faith with Imam John Starling.
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
GCLEA
About the Event
During the last ten nights of Ramadan, we will gather for a focused halaqah dedicated to the reading of Virtues of the Month of Ramadan (Faḍāʾil Shahr Ramaḍān), a classical collection of hadith on the virtues of Ramadan authored by the great hadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (d. 600 AH).
This work is among the earliest dedicated compilations on the merits of Ramadan, drawn directly from the author’s own narrations and auditions. The text preserves a connected chain of transmission and reflects the careful scholarship for which al-Maqdisī was renowned. The book contains numerous hadiths, addressing the virtues of fasting, the blessings of suḥūr, and the excellence of Laylat al-Qadr, with brief scholarly remarks on narrators and sources.
The halaqah will be conducted as a traditional reading, following the established method of transmission. Those who attend every session will be awarded a chain of narration (sanad) for the book, linking…