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What is zuhd?

ما الزهد؟

Zuhd is abstaining from what does not benefit one in the afterlife and turning away from the adornments of this world; it is a quality of the Prophet ﷺ and the righteous, and in the view of scholars one of the paths of self-purification.

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Asceticism (zuhd) is leaving what is useless for the Hereafter and turning away from the ornament of this world. It was the trait of the Prophet and the righteous, and scholars count it as a path of spiritual purification. 1

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.