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 "id": "concept/shahada",
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 "slug": "shahada",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الشهادتان",
  "en": "The shahada"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمداً رسول الله، وهي أول ما ذكره حديث «بُني الإسلام على خمس» في بيان ما بُني عليه الإسلام.",
  "en": "The testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is God's messenger, named first in the hadith 'Islam is built on five' that lists what Islam is built on."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "worship-and-the-pillars",
  "creed"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "doctrine",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "صحيح البخاري، كتاب الإيمان، الأحاديث 8 و46 و50",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "core-concepts-1"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q41831"
  },
  "sources": [
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   "source/sahih-ibn-khuzayma",
   "source/tanzil-quran",
   "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; Phase 3 batch 3: the order of the list is checked in the local Ibn Khuzayma scan (p. 192), and the Jibril quotation in the local Bukhari scan (p. 32, hadith 50). The Bukhari hadith 8 citation is replaced by Ibn Khuzayma; the quotation is trimmed to the words on p. 32. The record makes no claim beyond these two witnesses"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«الشهادتان» هما شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمداً رسول الله، وهما أول ما ذكره النبي في قوله: «بُني الإسلام على خمس» {cite:sahih-ibn-khuzayma p.192}. وهما أحد [[concept/five-pillars|أركان الإسلام الخمسة]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في حديث جبريل",
     "markdown": "حين عرّف النبي [[concept/islam-din|الإسلام]] لجبريل قال: «أن تعبد الله ولا تشرك به» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 50}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "تتناول كتب العقيدة معنى «لا إله إلا الله» وشروطها وأقسام التوحيد؛ وستُضاف في دفعة لاحقة من المصادر العقدية بأقوال أصحابها، ولم تُعرض هنا لعدم وجودها في المصادر التي رُجع إليها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "من درس الشيخ عمر عبد الكافي: الدين القيم",
     "markdown": "يقول الشيخ إن أعلى شعب الإيمان قول «لا إله إلا الله»، وإن أولاها الشهادة، وإن أبا جهل فهم معناها {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:05:30} {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:39:00}. ويذكر أن أحد الصحابة جعل الأمانة والصدق وعدم شهادة الزور من معنى «لا إله إلا الله»، فلم تنفصل عنده الصلاة عن الأمانة {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep03 00:09:30}.\n\nويرى الشيخ، وهذا رأي شخصي له، أن المؤمن الذي يصلي يحمل أخلاق «لا إله إلا الله» {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep06 00:15:30}، وأن كلمة التوحيد تخرج عند الشدة دليلا على امتلاء القلب بالإيمان {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep11 00:17:00}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/shahada",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-25"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "\"The two testimonies\" are the testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is God's messenger — the first thing the Prophet mentioned in his saying \"Islam is built on five\" {cite:sahih-ibn-khuzayma p.192}. They are one of [[concept/five-pillars|the five pillars of Islam]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In Gabriel's hadith",
     "markdown": "When the Prophet defined [[concept/islam-din|Islam]] for Gabriel he said: \"That you worship God and associate nothing with Him\" {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 50}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is not covered here",
     "markdown": "The creed books treat the meaning of \"there is no god but God\", its conditions and the categories of tawhid; that will be added in a later batch from the creed sources with their authors' sayings, and is not presented here since it is not in the sources consulted."
    },
    {
     "heading": "From Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's lecture series Al Dinu Al Qayem",
     "markdown": "The Sheikh says that the highest branch of faith is the saying \"there is no god but God\", that the first of the branches is the testimony, and that Abu Jahl understood its meaning {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:05:30} {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:39:00}. He says that one Companion treated trustworthiness, truthfulness and refusing false witness as part of the meaning of \"there is no god but God\", so that for him prayer was not separated from trustworthiness {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep03 00:09:30}.\n\nThe Sheikh holds, as his own opinion, that the believer who prays carries the ethics of \"there is no god but God\" {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep06 00:15:30}, and that the words of the testimony that come out at a critical moment are a sign of a heart full of faith {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep11 00:17:00}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/shahada",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-25"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "«الشہادتان» دو گواہیاں ہیں: اس بات کی گواہی کہ اللہ کے سوا کوئی معبود نہیں، اور یہ کہ محمد اللہ کے رسول ہیں۔ یہ وہ پہلی چیز ہے جس کا نبی نے اپنے قول «اسلام کی بنیاد پانچ پر ہے» میں ذکر کیا {cite:sahih-ibn-khuzayma p.192}۔ یہ [[concept/five-pillars|اسلام کے پانچ ارکان]] میں سے ایک ہیں۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جبریل کی حدیث میں",
     "markdown": "جب نبی نے جبریل کے لیے [[concept/islam-din|اسلام]] کی تعریف کی تو فرمایا: «یہ کہ تم اللہ کی عبادت کرو اور اس کے ساتھ کسی کو شریک نہ ٹھہراؤ» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 50}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جو یہاں ذکر نہیں ہوا",
     "markdown": "عقیدے کی کتابیں «لا الہ الا اللہ» کے معنی، اس کی شرطیں اور توحید کی اقسام بیان کرتی ہیں؛ اور ان کے اہل علم کے اقوال اگلی کھیپ میں ان کی طرف منسوب کر کے شامل کیے جائیں گے۔ یہ ان مصادر میں نہیں جن کی طرف رجوع کیا گیا، اس لیے یہاں پیش نہیں کیے گئے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "شیخ عمر عبدالکافی کے درس سے: الدین القیم",
     "markdown": "شیخ کہتے ہیں کہ ایمان کی سب سے اعلیٰ شاخ «لا الٰہ الا اللہ» کہنا ہے، اور ان شاخوں میں پہلی شہادت ہے، اور ابوجہل نے اس کا مفہوم سمجھا تھا {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:05:30} {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep01 00:39:00}۔ وہ بیان کرتے ہیں کہ ایک صحابی نے امانت، سچائی اور جھوٹی گواہی سے انکار کو «لا الٰہ الا اللہ» کے مفہوم میں شامل سمجھا، اس لیے ان کے نزدیک نماز امانت سے جدا نہیں تھی {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep03 00:09:30}۔\n\nشیخ اپنی ذاتی رائے کے طور پر کہتے ہیں کہ نماز پڑھنے والا مومن «لا الٰہ الا اللہ» کے اخلاق اپنے اندر رکھتا ہے {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep06 00:15:30}، اور مشکل وقت میں توحید کا کلمہ زبان پر آنا دل کے ایمان سے بھرے ہونے کی دلیل ہے {cite:assabile-omar-abdelkafy al-dinu-al-qayem/ep11 00:17:00}۔"
    }
   ],
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
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