Educator

Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English excerpt: He it is Who hath sent among the unlettered ones a messenger of their own, to recite unto them His revelations and to make them grow, and to teach them the Scripture and wisdom,

Source: Al-Jumuah (62:2)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Contiguous opening excerpt through “wisdom”: the educational mission combines knowledge and moral formation.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English translation: Then exalted be Allah, the True King! And hasten not (O Muhammad) with the Qur'an ere its revelation hath been perfected unto thee, and say: My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.

Source: Taha (20:114)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): The immediate subject is receiving revelation. General lessons about attentive learning are applications, not a replacement for that context.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English translation: And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men whom We inspired - Ask the followers of the Remembrance if ye know not! -

Source: An-Nahl (16:43)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): The contextual question concerns the humanity of earlier messengers; consulting expertise more generally is an inferred educational application.

Best use: Principle / argument

Related references: 092

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English translation: Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth, Createth man from a clot. Read: And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teacheth by the pen, Teacheth man that which he knew not.

Source: Al-Alaq (96:1-5)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Five consecutive verses connect the reception of revelation, creation, writing and learning. The first-revelation report supplies the biographical setting.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English translation: O ye who believe! when it is said unto you, Make room! in assemblies, then make room; Allah will make way for you (hereafter). And when it is said, Come up higher! go up higher; Allah will exalt those who believe among you, and those who have knowledge, to high ranks. Allah is Informed of what ye do.

Source: Al-Mujadilah (58:11)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Preserves the assembly-etiquette context of the celebrated statement about ranks of knowledge.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Educator

Published English translation: Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it. Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof. And when We read it, follow thou the reading; Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof.

Source: Al-Qiyamah (75:16-19)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Concerns divine preservation and reception of revelation. It must not be reduced to an ordinary classroom memory technique.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Facilitate things to people (concerning religious matters), and do not make it hard for them

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 69; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 11; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Anas ibn Malik

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): A teaching principle of accessibility; this is not authority to silently change the content being taught.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

Verify: Collection text

Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: used to take care of us in preaching by selecting a suitable time, so that we might not get bored.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 68; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 11; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Ibn Masʿud

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): A witnessed practice of avoiding fatigue, distinct from the general command to facilitate.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: he used to repeat it thrice so that the people could understand it properly from him

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 95; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 30; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Anas

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The report explicitly connects repetition with understanding. It is not counted again through the adjacent parallel narration.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: On that he promised them one day for religious lessons and commandments.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 101; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 35; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Saʿid al-Khudri

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Women identified an access problem and received a practical response. Their questions remained part of the lesson.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: I swear that he did not scold, beat or revile me

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 537a; Book 5, Mosques; chapter 7; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Muʿawiyah ibn al-Hakam al-Sulami

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): After speaking during prayer, the learner was taught the rule without abuse. The later theological dialogue in this long report is not the subject of this excerpt.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: ordered them to leave him and to pour a bucket or a tumbler of water over the place

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 220; Book 4, Ablution; chapter 58; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Hurayrah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The Bedouin’s offence was not approved: the mosque was cleaned, while an escalating group reaction was stopped.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

Verify: Collection text

Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Pray as you have seen me praying

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 631; Book 10, Adhan; chapter 18; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Malik, reporting the young visiting group

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): After a residential visit, young learners were sent home to teach. Observation, practice and onward transmission appear together.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

Verify: Collection text

Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Learn your rituals (by seeing me performing them)

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 1297; Book 15, Hajj; chapter 51; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Jabir

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The instruction occurs during the pilgrimage rites. Its specific ritual setting distinguishes it from the prayer-training report.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Tell me the name of that tree.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 61; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 4; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Ibn ʿUmar

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The date-palm question invites reflection before explanation; Ibn ʿUmar’s hesitation also exposes a barrier to younger learners’ participation.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: The example of guidance and knowledge with which Allah has sent me is like abundant rain falling on the earth

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 79; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 20; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Musa

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The wider analogy distinguishes benefiting oneself, preserving benefit for others, and failing to receive guidance; these are not modern psychometric categories.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 5027; Book 66, Qur’an’s merits; chapter 21; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: ʿUthman

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Explicitly values transmission of Qur’anic learning; the report also records its motivating effect on Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman’s teaching.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: O boy! Mention the Name of Allah and eat with your right hand

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 5376; Book 70, Food; chapter 2; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: ʿUmar ibn Abi Salamah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The complete instruction also says to eat from what is nearest. The learner recalls a lasting change in ordinary table manners.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: When the people hear about it, they will solely depend on it.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 128; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 49; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Anas ibn Malik, concerning Muʿadh

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): A specific warning against misunderstanding glad tidings as a reason to abandon effort. Muʿadh eventually transmitted the report; this is not a licence for permanent suppression of knowledge.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

Verify: Collection text

Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: who teaches her good manners and educates her in the best possible way (the religion)

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 97; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 31; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Musa, father of Abu Burdah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The historical setting is enslavement; the complete sequence includes education, emancipation and marriage. It must not be recast as a modern employment arrangement or endorsement of present-day slavery.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: then teach them that Allah has enjoined on them five prayers

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 1395; Book 24, Zakat; chapter 1; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Ibn ʿAbbas

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Muʿadh’s mission moves from testimony to prayer and then zakat. The report supplies an ordered curriculum for this mission, not a complete list of every religious obligation.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: It is incumbent upon those who are present to inform those who are absent

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 67; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 9; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Bakrah, through his son ʿAbd al-Rahman

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The address protects life, property and honour, then assigns responsibility for conveying it beyond the immediate audience.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Ask whatever you want.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 63; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 6; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Anas ibn Malik

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Dimam warns that he will question rigorously and receives permission. The encounter ends in a stated understanding of central obligations.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: but He has sent me to teach and make things easy.

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 1478; Book 18, Divorce; chapter 4; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The statement occurs during the choice offered to the Prophet’s wives, not in a detached classroom speech. The preceding report describes harsh acts by other people, not by the Prophet.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: O boy! I will teach you a statement: Be mindful of Allah and He will protect you.

Source / numbering: Jamiʿ al-Tirmidhi, 2516; Book 37, Resurrection, spiritual counsel and scrupulousness; 2516; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Ibn ʿAbbas

Status / grading: Hasan sahih — al-Tirmidhi; Hasan — Darussalam on Sunnah.com

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): A brief lesson during shared travel links attention to God with reliance upon Him. The complete report’s statements on divine decree should not be recast as denying ordinary effort.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Educator

Published English excerpt: Yes, if she notices a discharge.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 130; Book 3, Knowledge; chapter 50; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Umm Salamah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Umm Sulaym’s question about ritual washing receives a direct answer. The evidence concerns legitimate learning despite embarrassment, not a general medical consultation.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Tafsir • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: The People of earlier Scripture are asked whether their messengers were human or angelic.

Author / work: Ibn Kathir; Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged English access); An-Nahl 16:43–44, “Only Human Messengers have been Sent”

Verification / limitation: Commentary passage checked; accessed English abridgment, not a critical Arabic edition

Relevance (compiler): Useful for teaching context-sensitive citation and distinguishing the original question from later applications.

Best use: Interpretation / critical analysis

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Category / theme: Educational scholarship • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Teaching requires parental care and concern for the learner’s welfare.

Author / work: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya’ ʿUlum al-Din (accessed English: Revival of Religious Learnings); Vol. 1, Book of Knowledge, section 5, Second Subject: Duties of a Teacher, Duty 1

Verification / limitation: English passage checked; translator and print edition not independently established; embedded reports not newly authenticated

Relevance (compiler): Professional care, not emotional distance.

Best use: Analytical argument / educational application

Verify: Cited passage

Category / theme: Educational scholarship • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: He recommends tactful correction rather than humiliating harshness.

Author / work: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya’ ʿUlum al-Din (accessed English: Revival of Religious Learnings); Vol. 1, Book of Knowledge, section 5, Second Subject: Duties of a Teacher, Duty 4

Verification / limitation: English passage checked; translator and print edition not independently established; embedded reports not newly authenticated

Relevance (compiler): A pedagogical argument, not a new Hadith.

Best use: Analytical argument / educational application

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Category / theme: Educational scholarship • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: He warns teachers against belittling other disciplines and supports gradual progress.

Author / work: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya’ ʿUlum al-Din (accessed English: Revival of Religious Learnings); Vol. 1, Book of Knowledge, section 5, Second Subject: Duties of a Teacher, Duty 5

Verification / limitation: English passage checked; translator and print edition not independently established; embedded reports not newly authenticated

Relevance (compiler): Avoid disciplinary contempt.

Best use: Analytical argument / educational application

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Category / theme: Educational scholarship • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: He links the level of instruction to the learner’s intellectual capacity.

Author / work: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya’ ʿUlum al-Din (accessed English: Revival of Religious Learnings); Vol. 1, Book of Knowledge, section 5, Second Subject: Duties of a Teacher, Duty 6

Verification / limitation: English passage checked; translator and print edition not independently established; embedded reports not newly authenticated

Relevance (compiler): Match complexity to readiness.

Best use: Analytical argument / educational application

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Category / theme: Educational scholarship • Educator

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: He requires the teacher’s conduct to agree with the teacher’s instruction.

Author / work: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya’ ʿUlum al-Din (accessed English: Revival of Religious Learnings); Vol. 1, Book of Knowledge, section 5, Second Subject: Duties of a Teacher, Duty 8

Verification / limitation: English passage checked; translator and print edition not independently established; embedded reports not newly authenticated

Relevance (compiler): Credibility through practice.

Best use: Analytical argument / educational application

Verify: Cited passage