The hadeeth of Salmaan about the virtues of Ramadaan is da’eef (weak)

A khateeb of a masjid in my area mentioned in a khutbah a Hadeeth
narrated by Salmaan, mayAllah be pleased with him,that the prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him, gave them a khutbahin the last day of
Sha'abaan .. etc. some brothers objected to whatthe khateeb says in
front of the worshippers sayingthat this Hadeeth is fabricated. He
also said that the prophet said: "who feeds a fasting person, Allah
will bless him a drink of my Cistern (Al-Hawd), he will never feel
thirsty after it until heis in paradise" and also said: "who makes it
easy on his salve, Allah will forgive him and frees him of the
hellfire". The brother objected and said:this is lying and the prophet
did not say this. Aperson tells lies about what the prophet said
should expect his place in the hell". Is the Hadeeth mentioned correct
or not?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The hadeeth of Salmaan was narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah in his Saheeh. He
said: Chapter on the virtues of the month of Ramadaan if the report is
saheeh. Then he said: 'Ali ibn Hijr al-Sa'di told us, Yoosuf ibn
Ziyaad told us, Humaam ibn Yahya told us, from 'Ali ibn Zayd ibn
Jad'aan, from Sa'eed ibn al-Musayyab, from Salmaan who said: The
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
addressed us on the last day of Sha'baan and said: "O people, there
has cometo you a great month, a blessed month, a month in which there
is a night that is better than a thousand months. Allaah has made
fasting it obligatory and spending its nights in prayer a voluntary
act. Whoever draws close (to Allaah) during it by doing a good deed
will be like one who did an obligatory deed in any other month, and
the one who does an obligatory deed in it will be like one who did
seventy obligatory deeds in any other month. It is the month of
patience, and the reward of patience is Paradise. It is the month of
helping others. It is a month in which the believer's provision is
increased. Whoever gives a fasting person food with which to break his
fast will have his sins forgiven and he will be ransomed from the
Fire, and he will have a reward like his without it detracting from
his reward in the slightest." They said: Not all of us can find
something to give to the fasting person with which to break his fast.
He said: "Allaah will give this reward to the one who gives a fasting
person a date or a drink of water or a sip of milk. It is a month the
beginning of which is mercy, the middle of which is forgiveness and
the end of which is ransom from the Fire. The one who reduces the
burden for his slave will be forgiven by Allaah, andHe will ransom him
from the Fire. So do a lot of four good deeds during it,two with which
you will please your Lord and two which you cannot do without. As for
the two good deeds with which you will please your Lord, they are
bearing witness that there is no god except Allaah, and seekingHis
forgiveness. As for those which you cannot do without, they are:
asking Allaah for Paradise and seeking refuge with Him from Hell.
Whoever feeds a fasting person until he is full, Allaah will give him
to drink from myCistern, a drink after which he will not thirst again
until he enters Paradise."
Its isnaad includes 'Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jad'aan, who is da'eef (weak)
because of his bad memory. Its isnaad also includes Yoosuf ibn Ziyaad
al-Basri,whose hadeeth is munkar.It also includes Humaam ibn Yahya ibn
Dinaar al-'Awadi, concerning whom Ibn Hajar said in al-Taqreeb: He is
trustworthy but he may make mistakes.
Based on this, the hadeeth with this isnaad is not false, but it is
weak. However, many of the virtues of Ramadaan are proven in the
saheeh ahaadeeth.
Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah li'l-Buhoothal-'Ilmiyyah wa'l-Ifta.

She has reached the age of puberty but she is not strong enough to fast

A girl has reached pubertyat the age of eleven and she is weak. Does
she have to fast? If she is unable to fast then what should she do?.
Praise be to Allaah.
If the situation is as described, then she has tofast because
menstruationis one of the signs of puberty for women, if it comes when
she is nine years old or more. If she isable to fast then she mustdo
it at the proper time, and if she is unable to do it or she faces
extreme hardship in doing so, thenshe may not fast but she must make
up the days that she did not fast whenshe is able to do so. End quote.
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah li'l-Buhoothal-'Ilmiyyah wa'l-Ifta/

1a] Nothing is Lost

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witnessed by Allah, so Nuhwill receive his reward. Furthermore he was
savedfrom the flood, and went on to have more children, and to leave
his own legacy of offspring and teaching. And here we are, thousands
of years later, knowing his name, repeating his story, learning from
him! His story has become a part ofuniversal human mythology. How then
could he be a failure? He affected the world in a profound way until
the Day of Judgment, and he achieved that only by doing his job.
So I would like to suggest a replacement for the negative mantra,
"Everything falls apart." A truer statement, and one based on faith,
would be, "Nothing is lost."
Karma, the universe and the Law of Conservation of Energy
But what if you don't believe in Allah? Well, first of all I would say
that's a shame, because every timeyou put a bite of food in your mouth
that's a grace and a blessing from Him. Going back to Nuh for a
moment, The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "When the death
of the Messenger of Allah Nuh approached, he admonished his sons:
'Indeed I would give youfar reaching advice, commanding you to do two
things, and warningyou against doing two things as well. I charge you
to believe that there is no God but Allah and that if the seven
heavensand the seven earths were put on one side of a scale and the
words "There is no God but Allah" were put on the other, the latter
would outweigh the former. I warn you against associating partners
with Allah and against pride." (Saheeh al-Bukhari).
But even so, if you are Buddhist or Hindu then you believe in cause
and effect on a cosmic level. You believe that the good you do returns
in one way or another, and any evil you perpetrate also boomerangs
into your own soul. These are the fruits of karma. So again, nothing
is lost.
If you deny God and believe only in science andenergy and matter, then
you know that still, nothing is lost! The universe is a finite system.
Our universe began at a single point in time – whatscientists call the
Big Bang.The cosmos is expanding, flying out in every direction, until
one day in the unimaginable future it will reach the limits of
expansion and begin to contract, slowly at first then faster, drawn
inwardsby gravity until it collapsesinto the nothingness from whence
it came. Within this finite universe, energy can be transformed into
matter, or matter into energy, but nothing new iscreated, and nothing
is lost. There is no universal drain. In science this is known as the
Law of Conservation of Energy:
"Energy in a system may take on various forms (e.g. kinetic,
potential, heat, light). The law of conservation of energy states that
energy may neither be created nor destroyed. Therefore the sum of all
the energies in the system is a constant."
The greatest love
Personally, as someone who has suffered from the tendency of all
things to fall apart – what we mightcall the entropy of love – the
purely scientific perspective is cold comfort. When I'm mourning the
loss of a friend, it's no comfort to know that the universe is a
closed system, and that nothing is lost in the physical, atomic sense.
But it is a great comfort to know that all the love, work and good
I've done means something, both in a spiritual sense, and in a human
sense.
The American writer Washington Irving wrote, "Love is never lost. If
not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purifythe heart."
Every act of mercy, every charity, every moment of love you have given
another human being, ripples out through degrees of separation,
affecting the world in a profound way. Even if a relationship is
broken, even if the person now views you with enmity, it doesn't
invalidate what you did. The love that you gave is seen by Allah. On
the earthly plane, that loveaffects your own heart in good ways, then
it percolates out to those around you and changes the world. It
matters. It was not in vain. Nothing islost.
Since I've been speaking oflove, let me finish with a reminder of the
most important love of all. The famous scholar Ibn Qayyimal-Jawziyya
wrote:
"Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except
with the company of Allah. And in itthere is a sadness that can not be
removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to
Him. And in it thereis an emptiness that can not be filled except with
love for Him and by turning to Him and alwaysremembering Him And if a
person were given all of the world and what is in it,it would not fill
this emptiness."
The greatest love we can have is our love for Allah, and it is always
requited. Allah's love descends uponus in every moment, in more ways
than we can see or understand. Alhamdulillah.

1] Nothing is Lost

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Nothing is lost. The years of your life that you poured like water
into a now-failed marriage, or the immense love and attention you gave
a child or brother or friend who now treats you like an enemy, or the
work you did for a company that closed down, or the sweat you put into
a project that ultimately failed… none of that is lost.
It's particularly hard when a relationship collapses, leaving
bitterness where previously there was passion. It's galling. You feel
confused, betrayed, depressed. Even years lateryou might feel that you
wasted those years, that you poured love from yourinnermost core and
watched it go down a drain.
The viewpoint of faith
I understand the feeling. I've been there. I've been perplexed and
depressed, with the phrase "Everything falls apart" running through my
head, thinking about how all things collapse in the end, and how good
things never seem to last.
But that is the narrow viewpoint of depression. Itis a singularly
negative viewpoint, and therefore itis not the viewpoint of imaan
(faith), because faithis the parent of hope. Faithgives you a window
into the unseen, the world thatIslam calls al-ghayb , and one of the
elements of the unseen world that Allah has informed us of is that
nothing is lost:
"And their Lord responded to them, "Never will I allow to be lost the
work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one
another." (Quran, Surat Aal-Imraan, 3:195)
Allah knows the frustration and pain we feel, so He assures us that
none of our deeds are lost,not only because He sees all, but because
we are "of one another", in other words we human beings are all
connected. We are all a part of each other, and so any love and work
that one of us puts forward affects us all.
And Allah says,
"So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, And whoever
does an atom's weight of evil will see it." (Quran Surat Az-Zalzalah,
99:7-8)
Your love did not evaporate into nothingness. Your sweat and blood
were not poured down a drain. Those years of your life, those anxious
moments and anxiety dreams, were not in vain. Your silent good deeds,
and the most tender moments of your heart, were witnessed by the One
who matters, for Allah sees all. Everything isseen and valued. Every
good deed is blessed, every act of love is rewarded, everything is
returned to you in barakahmany times over. Nothing is lost.
The Prophet Nuh (pbuh)
When the Prophet Nuh (peace be upon him) preached to his people,
calling them to tawheed (monotheism) amidst the whirlpool of
polytheism, they stuck their fingers in their ears and mocked him… and
in the end the flood came upon them because of their wickedness,
destroying them all except for a handful of followers… destroying even
Nuh's wife and one of his sons.
When this happened, was Nuh a failure? Were his ages of hard work in
vain? Were his deeds lost? Do you find yourself saying, "Poor Nuh"?
If so, then you have missed the point. Nuh was a Prophet, a hero, and
a survivor. He fulfilled his mission and delivered the message. That
was his job and he did it. It was witnessed by Allah,:->