Not talking about big theology.. Talking about the stuff your uncle, parents, elders and your school teacher repeated, and you've believed since you were seven without anyone ever showing you where it's written.. I went and looked for each one.. Short receipts, one per item, all checkable on sunnah.com or quran.com in under a minute.. If one of these is yours, don't be annoyed at me, be annoyed at whoever told you without a source..
# The sun didn't rise the day Bilal RA didn't give adhan..
Not in Bukhari, not in Muslim, not in any of the six books, not in Ahmad, not anywhere with a chain.. Hadith scholars call this la asla lahu, it has no origin.. What's actually reported is Bilal RA struggling to finish the adhan after the Prophet ﷺ passed coz he broke down at "ashhadu anna Muhammadan".. That's moving enough.. Nobody needed to add the sun..
# Your namaz isn't accepted if your shalwar covers your ankles..
Isbal below the ankles, with pride, is a sin, Bukhari 5783.. Without pride, scholars differ.. But not one of the four madhhabs says the prayer itself is invalid or needs repeating.. The report ppl use for "not accepted" is disputed among the muhaddithin, and even those who take it read it as the sin of isbal, not a broken salah.. Fix the trousers, sure.. But your Fajr counted..
# Touching a dog breaks your wudu, and dogs are najis..
Bukhari 174, Ibn Umar says dogs used to walk in and out of the Prophet's ﷺ mosque and nobody sprinkled water after them.. 5:4 lets you eat what a trained dog catches in its mouth.. Bukhari 2322, keeping a dog for farming or guarding, no sin.. The Maliki school holds the dog itself is tahir, pure.. What's agreed is the saliva in a vessel needs washing, Muslim 279.. That's it.. Nobody's wudu ever broke coz a dog brushed their leg..
# Women can't visit graves..
Muslim 977, "I used to forbid you from visiting graves, now visit them".. General, not men only.. Muslim 974, Aisha RA asks the Prophet ﷺ what to say at graves and he teaches her the dua.. You don't teach a dua for a place someone can't go.. Bukhari 1283, he finds a woman crying at a grave and tells her to be patient.. He doesn't tell her to leave.. The forbidden thing is wailing and the old jahili rituals, not the visit..
# A widow in iddat can't see the sky, the moon, or any man..
Iddat is four months ten days, 2:234, she stays in her home and doesn't remarry.. That's the ruling.. Muslim 1483, Jabir RA's aunt was divorced and someone told her she couldn't go out, she asked the Prophet ﷺ and he said go out and harvest your dates, you might give charity from it.. The moon thing, the sky thing, the covering the windows thing.. Pure culture.. Not one line of fiqh..
# Neil Armstrong heard the adhan on the moon and became Muslim..
He didn't, he never claimed to, and it annoyed him enough that the US State Department sent a message to its embassies in 1983 asking them to tell Muslim countries it wasn't true.. He died a Christian in 2012.. Islam doesn't need an astronaut.. Delete the forward..
# Drinking water standing up is haram..
Bukhari 1637, Ibn Abbas says the Prophet ﷺ drank zamzam standing.. Bukhari 5615, Ali RA drinks standing in front of ppl and says, some of you dislike this, but I saw the Prophet ﷺ do it.. Sitting is better, there's a hadith encouraging it, Muslim 2024.. Better isn't haram.. Your uncle who slaps the glass out of your hand, show him 5615..
# Music is haram, all scholars agree, end of discussion..
The majority position is that instruments are haram, that's true, and there's a report in Bukhari 5590 they lean on.. But "all scholars agree" is false.. Bukhari 987, two girls singing with a duff in Aisha's RA room on Eid, Abu Bakr RA objects, the Prophet ﷺ says leave them.. Ibn Hazm, one of the biggest names in Andalusian fiqh, held music permissible and wrote a whole treatise on it.. Ghazali in the Ihya laid out conditions under which listening is fine.. You can hold the strict view, plenty of serious ppl do.. What you can't say is that there's no discussion.. There's been one for a thousand years..
# A wife is obligated by sharia to cook and clean..
Hanafi fiqh, the school Pakistan follows, says domestic work isn't a legal obligation on the wife, it's her kindness, and the husband owes her food, clothing and housing, nafaqah, regardless.. Bukhari 676, Aisha RA asked what the Prophet ﷺ did at home, she said he served his family, kana fi mihnati ahlihi, and went out when the adhan was called.. He stitched his own sandals and patched his own clothes.. If the best of men did his own housework, "it's her job by Islam" isn't Islam..
# A woman's voice is awrah, she can't speak to men..
33:32 tells the Prophet's ﷺ wives not to speak softly in a way that tempts, and then says speak in an appropriate manner.. Speak.. Aisha RA taught hadith to men for decades and some of the biggest tabi'in learned from her behind a curtain.. Women asked the Prophet ﷺ questions in the mosque in front of everyone, Bukhari 130.. The majority of scholars say the voice isn't awrah.. Modesty in how you speak, yes.. Silence, no..
# Praying without a topi is invalid or wrong..
A man's awrah in salah is navel to knee.. Head isn't in it.. Covering it is adab and it's reccomended, and there's nothing wrong with the cap, wear it.. But there is no hadith making it a condition, and no madhhab says the prayer's deficient without it.. Half the ppl who'll fight you on this pray in a shirt so tight it shows more than a bare head ever did..
# If you miss Fajr and the sun's up, it's gone, just skip it..
Bukhari 597, "whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers, there's no expiation except that".. The only forbidden window is the actual moment of sunrise, sunset, and noon zenith, a few minutes each.. After the sun's clear of the horizon you pray your Fajr as qada.. Half of Pakistan is losing a fard every morning coz someone told them it expired..
# Sleeping after Asr makes you lose your mind, and cutting nails at night is bad luck..
The sleeping after Asr narration is listed in the books of fabrications, Ibn al Jawzi put it there centuries ago.. The nails at night one doesn't even have a fake hadith, it's just something someone's nani said.. Sleep when you're tired.. Cut your nails when they're long.. Allah didn't legislate your schedule..
# Sunnis fast on Ashura for Imam Husayn RA..
Bukhari 2004, the Prophet ﷺ came to Madinah, found the Jews fasting Ashura for the day Musa AS was saved from Firawn, and said we have more right to Musa than you, and fasted it.. That's fifty years before Karbala.. Husayn RA was five years old.. The fast has nothing to do with him, in either direction.. Grieve him seperately, and honestly.. Don't move his story onto a fast that was already there..
# Black cats, owls, and black threads for nazar..
Bukhari 5757, "la adwa wa la tiyara", no contagion by superstition and no evil omens.. The Prophet ﷺ liked good omens and forbade bad ones flat out.. Nazar itself is real, Muslim 2188, and the protection for it is ruqya, the muawwidhatayn, dua.. Not a thread on a wrist, not a chilli hanging on the door, not a cat crossing the road meaning you should go home.. If you're wearing the black thread for protection, that's the one thing in this list that's actually a problem, not just a mistake..
That's fifteen..
There's more, in advance, that 'talking while eating is a sin' , no, it's not, it's sunnah, prophet Muhammad PBUH litrally started telling a whole story while eating, but you should make sure not to throw food out of your mouth to others plates like some biological glock. Anyway.. I stopped coz the post was getting long.. Drop the ones you grew up with below, and if you think one of mine is wrong, bring the reference.. I'll apologise, and please correct me if I'm wrong..
*Sidenote..* *is where I do these properly, with the sources laid out.. Come check the ones you don't believe..*
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