Foreward

Chapter 1: Preliminaries

References

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Appeal to the Prophet(Peace Be Upon Him and His Household) for Help

Chapter 3: Justification of Istighathah After Death

Chapter 4: Smoothing out the Wrinkles

Chapter 5: Religious Leaders and Istighathah

Chapter 6: Purging Disblelief in Muhammad

Glossary

Bibliography

Beseeching For Help (istighathah)

References
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[1]. Bukhārī narrated this tradition in his*as-Sahīh* with different
words at six various places, i.e. b. of*janā’iz* (funerals) ch.71
(1:451\#1279); b. of*manāqib* (virtues) ch.22 (3:1317\#3401); b.
of*maghāzī* (the military expeditions led by the Prophet) ch.14, 25
(4:1486, 1498-9 \#3816, 3857); b. of*riqāq* (softening of hearts) ch.7,
53 (5:2361, 2408\#6062, 6218); Tabarānī,*al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr*
(17:278-80\#767-70); Bayhaqī,*as-Sunan-ul-kubrā* (4:14);
Baghawī,*Sharh-us-sunnah* (14:39-41\#3822-3); and ‘Alī’ al-Hindī
in*Kanz-ul-‘ummāl* (14:416\#39122).

[2]. Narrated in his*as-Sahīh* , b. of*fadā’il* (virtues) ch.9 (4:1795
\#30/2296).

[3]. Narrated in his *Musnad* (4:149, 153-4).

[4]. Nasā’ī, *Sunan* , b. of *hibah* (gifts) 6:262-3.

[5]. Shakespeare, *King Lear* .

[6]. Bukhārī narrated it in his*as-Sahīh* , chs. of*qiblah* , ch.1
(1:153\#384); and Nasā’ī in his*Sunan* , b. of*aymān wa sharā’i‘ahū*
(8:105).

[7]. Qur’ān ( *Maryam,* Mary) 19:19.


