Front Matter

Translator's Note

This is Ad-Deen Part 2 — Kitab al-Iman (The Book of Faith), by Hazrat al-Allamah Bahrul Uloom Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui Hasrat (RH), 1288–1381 AH (1871–1962 CE).

This is the companion volume to Ad-Deen Part 1 (Kitab al-Ilm). Where Part 1 covered the science of knowledge, Part 2 is a detailed exegesis of the Hadith of Jibreel covering Iman (faith), Tawhid (Divine Oneness), Qadar (predestination), Risalah (prophethood), the dignity of the Prophet ﷺ, intercession (tawassul), matters of the grave, and the virtues of the Rightly Guided Caliphs — grounding Islamic creed (Aqeedah) in the Hanafi school based on Qur'an and Sunnah.

The translation method utilized AI-assisted vision-OCR of the original Urdu-Arabic printed edition followed by a verbatim English translation of the Urdu commentary. It was edited by Muhammad Ahmad Ghazi, MD / Cary, North Carolina for fidelity to the author's voice and to Islamic terminology.

Honorifics such as ﷺ (for Prophet Muhammad), (RA) for the Sahaba, (RH) for later scholars, and (AS) for other prophets have been preserved throughout the text.

Arabic Qur'an verses and hadith have been preserved in their original script with English translation in italics beneath each. Vocabulary explanations (lughat) of Arabic words are retained as in the original pedagogical style.

The fifty chapters from the original Urdu Table of Contents have been carefully preserved to maintain the author's structure.