
Many years ago in Uzbekistan, a baby boy was born blind. His
Mother, the strong Mu’minah that she was, did not lose sight
of He who had the Power to cure him. She prayed and prayed for her
sons sight. And within a few years the boy regained his eyes.
She was widowed, the boy an orphan. She traveled with him to
Makkah so that he could receive an Islamic Education. She arranged
that he attend the circles of the scholars, and in those circles,
he began excelling in the science of Hadith. He traveled to distant
villages in search of the most authentic sayings of Rasul Allah
(pbuh). He would pray two raka’at before accepting a hadith.
His mother named him: Muhammad ibn Isma’il. And many of us
know him today by the book he compiled, the book...