Safar al-Muzaffar - The Second Month of Islamic Calendar

Safar al-Muzaffar is the second month of the Islamic calendar. Literal meaning of Safar is empty. During this month the houses used to be empty and deserted because the ban on going to war in the month of Muharram came to an end and everyone proceeded towards the battlefield.

Safar also means to be yellow. When the names of the months were being given it was the season of autumn and the leaves of the trees were yellow.

Many people have erroneous beliefs regarding this month i.e. it is a month of misfortune and calamities. The teachings of Allah Ta'ala and His Most Beloved Rasool (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) gives us clear guidelines on such incorrect beliefs.

Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) says in the Qur'an al-Kareem:

ما أصاب من مصيبة إلا بإذن الله
"No misfortune befalls except by Allah’s command..." [Surah Tagabun, Verse 11]

These erroneous beliefs have also been condemned in the context of the following Ahadith:

لا عدوى ولا طيرة ولا هامة ولاصفر
There is no superstitious owl, bird, no star-promising rain, no bad omen in the month of Safar. [Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 5707]

لا عدوى ولا صفر ولا غول
There is no bad omen in the month of Safar and no Ghouls (evil spirits). [Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2222]

The above Ahadith clearly refutes all incorrect beliefs and superstitions regarding the month of Safar. These incorrect beliefs flow from the pre-Islamic period of Jahiliyyah .

The Month of Safar during the Days of Ignorance

The Muhaddithin have recorded many of the superstitions harboured by the Arabs during the Days of Ignorance. A few are mentioned below:

1. The pre-Islamic Arabs believed Safar to be a snake which lives in the stomach of a human being and when hungry, bites the person. This is the discomfort one experiences when gripped by the pangs of hunger.

2. Some said Safar are worms which originate in the liver and ribs due to which the colour of the person becomes yellow, a condition we know today as jaundice.

3. According to some, the month of Safar flanked by Muharram and Rabi al Awwal is full of calamities and misfortune.

With the advent of Islam and the teachings of Sayyadina Rasoolullah (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam), all evil and incorrect beliefs common in pre-Islamic times were discarded.

Incorrect Beliefs:

Today too, there are some Muslims who hold incorrect beliefs regarding the month of Safar.

1. A nikah performed in this month would not be successful.
2. This month is full of misfortune and calamities.
3. To commence any important venture, business etc. during this month will bring bad luck.
4. The first to the thirteenth of Safar is ill-fortune and evil.
5. The person who distributes food or money on the 13th of Safar will be saved from its ill-fortune.
6. To celebrate the last Wednesday of Safar and regard it as a holiday.

What to do:

1. To shun all types of erroneous beliefs regarding the blessed month of Safar.

2. To understand that the most unfortunate person is he who disobeys Allah Ta'ala's commandments e.g. does not perform the five daily salaah etc. It is narrated in a hadith that Rasoolullah (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam) said: "Pray, 0 Allah! Cause not anyone of us to be a wretched destitute." He then asked: "Do you know who is a wretched destitute?" Upon the request of the Sahabah (Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhum) he replied, "A wretched destitute is he who neglects his salaat."

3. We should understand that all conditions which befalls us, good or bad, favourable, or unfavourable are from Allah Ta'ala, (as a result of our actions). Allah Ta'ala says: " Whatever misfortune befalls you, it is due to the things your hands have wrought, and He forgives many a sin." (Surah 42 - Verse 30).

This can also be confirmed by the following Hadith:

Sayyadina Jabir (Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu) has said that, "I have heard Sayyadina Rasoolullah (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam) saying, the descending of illness and evil superstition befalling in the month of Safar is untrue."

..:: Important dates and Anniversaries in the month of Safar ::..

Date	URS Sharif (Passing Of)
1	Hadrat Abu Bakr Ahmad Ismail Jurjani
1	Hadrat Khwaja Hassan Salaar
1	Hadrat Mawlana Khuda Bakhsh Multani
1	Hadrat Sayyidna Abu al-Qasim Shah Ismail Hassan Marharwi
1	Hadrat Haji Waris Ali Shah
1	Hadrat Jamalullah Rampuri
1	Hadrat Khwaja Shah Muhammad Sulaiman Tounsawi
2	Khulaifa Adil al-Hakim Thani bin Abdul Rahman al-Nasir Maliki Andalusi
2	Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Zouq Baransi Farsi
2	Mawlana Fadal Ahmad Sufi bin Mawlana Abdul Ahad Muhaddith Pilibhiti
3	Hadrat Khwaja Hassanuddin Jalabi
3	Hadrat Shaykh Sultanuddin Ahmad Mawlana Sanjani
3	Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Munawar Ali
3	Hadrat Khwaja Dana Surrati
3	Mujahid Kabeer Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi
3	Hazrat Shah Faqeerullah Alawi Afghani Thumma Sindhi
3	Mufti Mehmood Jaan Khan Qadiri Alaihir Rahmah (Khalifa-e-AlaHadrat)
4	Hadrat Abu Saeed Chishti
4	Hadrat Khwaja Qutubuddin Jonpuri
4	Hadrat Kareem Shah Surrati
4	Khwaja Mutma'een Tounsawi
4	Hadrat Allamah Mahmood Azamgadhi
4	Hadrat Mawlana Nasir Ali Hanafi Gayaspuri Azeemabadi
4	Hadrat Allamah Mufti Gulam Hussain Naqshbandi Essa Khelwi
5	Hadrat Umm al-Mu'mineen Maymunah
5	Hadrat Mawlana Yaqoob Charkhi Naqshbandi
5	Hadrat Shah Ismail Chishti
5	Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Hamid
5	Hadrat Shah Gulam Rashid Jonpuri
5	Hadrat Mawlana Naeemullah Behraichi
5	Hadrat Qari Maqbool Hangal
5	Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Sulayman
5	Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Nizamuddin
5	Hadrat Hakeem Najam al-Ghani Rampuri
6	Hadrat Khwaja Ilmuddin Ilm al-Haq Farooqui Chishti
6	Hadrat Shams al-Din Arif
6	Hadrat Shah Sulaiman Tounsawi
6	Hadrat Baba Bhullay Shah
7	Hadrat Ali bin Mawfiq Baghdadi
7	Hadrat Abu Bakr Muhammad Nisaj Toosi
7	Hadrat Shaykh Bahauddin Zakariya Multani
7	Hadrat Shaykh Abu Ishaq Abu Sahal Sa'looki
7	Hadrat Sayyid Kamil Shah Lahori
7	Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Sulaiman Tounsawi
7	Mulla Muhammad Hassan bin Qazi Gulam Mustafa
8	Hadrat Sayyid Abdul Jaleel Dehlawi
8	Hadrat Shah Abdul Jaleel Baghdadi
8	Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Liaqat Ali Shah Razawi
8	Hadrat Khwaja Salahuddin Chishti
9	Hadrat Sayyiduna Imam Ali Moosa
9	Hadrat Imam al-Muslimeen Sayyiduna Ali Raza
9	Hadrat Sheeran Almaani
9	Hadrat Akhoon Sher Dal Haq Pandoli
9	Hadrat Meer Abu al-Ula Akbarabadi
9	Hadrat Sufi Inayatullah Shah bin Makhdoom Fadl Allah Baghdadi
10	Umm al-Mu'mineen Hadrat Juweriyah
10	Hadrat Shah Barkhurdar Korwi
10	Hadrat Mawlana Hakeem Ahmad Ali Khairabadi
11	Hadrat Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Yahya Baghdadi
11	Hadrat Abu Ishaq Qassaar
11	Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad Ismail Qaysari
11	Hadrat Abu Nasar Abdullah Siraj Toosi
11	Hadrat Umar bin Muhammad Fadl Allah
11	Hadrat Shaykh Taajuddin Baqai
11	Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad bin Rayf Andalusi
11	Hadrat Shaykh Shamsuddin Nagori
11	Hadrat Sayyid Muhammad Baghdadi
11	Hadrat Sayyid Mubarak bin Abaz
11	Hadrat Qasim Anwar
11	Hadrat Sayyid Ibrahim Sarmadi
11	Hadrat Hafiz Ilahi Bakhsh Urf Aalijah
11	Mufassir-e-Azam Hadrat Mawlana Muhammah Ibrahim Raza Khan
11	Hadrat Shaykh al-Quran Allamah Gulam Ali Asrafi Okarrwi
12	Hadrat Sayyidatuna Raqaiyyah bint Rasoolullah (SallAllahu Alayhi wa Sallam)
12	Hadrat Abu Usman Wa'ez
12	Hadrat Khwaja Abdul Kareem Abu al-Qasim Khateeb
12	Hadrat Sayyid Ilyas Maghrabi
12	Hadrat Shaykh Zahid bin Ibrahim Gilani
12	Hadrat Mawlana Shah Abdur Raheem Dehalwi
12	Hadrat Shaykh Jageer Karday
12	Hadrat Mawlana Fadl Haq Khayrabadi
12	Hadrat Shah Abdul Lateef Bhittai
13	Hadrat Abu Abdur Rahman Ahmad Nasa'i
13	Hadrat Abu Ali Hassan Mashtawli
13	Hadrat Abu Muhammad Abdullah Marta'ash
13	Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Khazari
13	Hadrat Muhammad Gayaas Kirmani
13	Hadrat Abdullah Shazili
13	Hadrat Shaykh Bahauddin Akbar
13	Hadrat Abu al-Fath Sanjari Muqayyid Jabaroot
13	Hadrat Akhoon Shah Habibullah
13	Hadrat Shah Wasiluddin
13	Hadrat Muhaiyyi al-Din Urf Hafiz Jamalullah
13	Hadrat Qutb al-Din Urf Haji Qurdat Allah
13	Hadrat Shaykh Habib Peshawari
13	Hadrat Peer Sayyid Sibgatullah Shaheed
13	Hadrat Fadil Kabeer Muhammad Hassan Sanbhali
14	Hadrat Maalik bin Deenar
14	Hadrat Haji Mustafa Sirhindi
14	Hadrat Zaheer al-Din Maakoor
14	Qazi Abu al-Mahasin Yousuf bin Rafay' al-Asadi
14	Hadrat Shah Abdul Kareem Manikpuri
14	Hadrat Abu al-Faiz Shah Abdur Raheem Muhaddith Dehlawi
15	Hadrat Data Gang Bakhsh Makhdoom Abu al-Hasan Ali Hujweri
15	Hadrat Jalal al-Haq Qadi Khan Yousuf Nasihi
15	Hadrat Akhoon Siddiqui Mustafaabadi
15	Hadrat Shah Gulam Naseer al-Din Miya Kalay
15	Hadrat Nijabat Ali Shah Lakhnawi
15	Hadrat Sayyid Shah Ahmad Shams Aalam Raichoor
15	Allamah Arshadul Qadri
16	Hadrat Umar Ahmad Ali Maghrabi
16	Hadrat Abu al-Hussain Bindaar Shirazi
16	Hadrat Abu Mas'ood Maghribi
16	Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Kabeer
16	Hadrat Abu Usman
16	Hadrat Shaykh Baba Kamal Hayderi
16	Hadrat Sayyidi Muhammad bin Yousuf Kirmani
16	Hadrat Shah Qasim Munqasim al-Arwah
16	Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Akbarabadi
16	Hadrat Wali Allah Hiqqi
16	Ra'ees al-Qalam Allamah Arshadul Qadri
16	Shaykh Badr al-Din Ja'fari Phulwari
16	Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Maghfur al-Qadri
17	Hadrat Abu Ali Hussain
17	Hadrat Shaykh Zakariya
17	Hadrat Khwaja Baha al-Din Zakariya Suharwardi
17	Hadrat Khwaja Hassan Balghari
17	Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Taaj al-Din
17	Hadrat Shaykh Nizam al-Din Narnoli
17	Hadrat Akhoon Siddiqui Bajori
17	Hadrat Hakeem Shah Ne'matullah
17	Hadrat Allamah Mufti Gulam Raool Madraasi
17	Hadrat Mawlana Hamid Ali Khan Rampuri
17	Hadrat Shaykh Ali Ahmad Bherwi
18	Hadrat Asadullah Rumi
18	Shaykh Hameed Andalusi
18	Hadrat Raji Hamid
18	Hadrat Burhan al-Din Gareeb
18	Hadrat Moosa Suharwardi
18	Hadrat Meer Nau'man Akbarabadi
19	Hadrat Abdul al-Awwal Iman al-Din Shami
19	Abu al-Waleed Hisham Awwal
19	Hadrat Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ruwaym Baghdadi
19	Hadrat Sayyid Muhammad Shubayki Hasani
19	Muhammad bin Abi al-Qasim al-Ma'roof Ibn Raseed al-Andalusi
19	Hadrat Qazi Hameed al-Din Muhammad bin Ata Naghauri
19	Hadrat Sayyid Baha al-Din Jonpuri
19	Hadrat Khwaja Yahya Ilahabadi
19	Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Kalpawi
19	Hadrat Shah Jamal Kalkattawi
19	Hadrat Akhoon Darya Khan Jee Zabarjaddi
19	Hadrat Akhoon Darya Khan Jee
19	Hadrat Sayyid Aleemullah Chishti
19	Hadrat Shaykh Aleemullah Shawrakh Abdaal
19	Hadrat Sayyid Shah Ahmad Kalpi Shareef
19	Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Umar Hanbali Hayderabadi
20	Hadrat Sayyidi Yahya bin Bakayr
20	Sahib Zadah Hakeem Arshad Ahmad Ameeri
20	Peer Sayyid Ali Kalaan Sheerazi
20	Makhdom Bilal bin Kabrawi Junaidi
20	Hadrat Mawlana Sultan al-Din Mubin Jaypuri
21	Hadrat Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali Hakeem Tirmidhi
21	Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad bin Yousuf Maghrabi
21	Hadrat al-Hussain Muhammad Wazzaq
21	Hadrat Shah Muhammad Aashiq Maah
21	Hadrat Shams al-Din Ubaid Qadiri
21	Hadrat Shaykh Abdur Raheem Kashmiri
21	Hadrat Sayyid Aqeel
21	Hadrat Muhammad Abdur Rahman Makki Sawar
22	Hadrat Shaykh Salah al-Din Darwaish Chishti Sahar Wardi
22	Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad Halawi bin Dawood Qarashi
22	Hadrat Shaykh Abdullah Qurayshi
22	Hadrat Shaykh Mahmood Rajan
22	Hadrat Shah Gulaam Ali Dehlawi
22	Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Mahmood Urf Rajan bin Khwaja Alim al-Din
22	Hadrat Sayyid Gulaam Hussain
22	Hadrat Peer Sayyid Bhalan Shah Jeelani
22	Hadrat Khwaja Shaykh Shams al-Din Siyal Shareef
22	Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Hassan Shah Raampuri
23	Hadrat Abu Abdullah Khaqaan Sufi
23	Hadrat Abu al-Qasim Ali Gargani
23	Hadrat Shaykh Adeef al-Din Salman Tilmasani
23	Hadrat Sayyid Jalal Ahmad Akbari
23	Hadrat Shah Jalal al-Din
23	Hadrat Makhdoom Shaykh Muhammad Meena Lakhnawi
23	Hadrat Mawlana Abdul Razzaq Lakhnawi
23	Hadrat Sayyidna Imam Baqir
23	Hadrat Sultan Mahmood Gaznawi
23	Hadrat Sayyidna Shah Meena Abu al-Ulai
23	Hadrat Muhammad Saleem Qadri Shaheed
24	Hadrat Shaykh Abdullah bin Salim
24	Hadrat Khwaja Meer Dard Dehlawi
24	Hadrat Mawlana Abu al-Baqa Abdul Hakeem Qadri Razzaqi
24	Hadrat Allamah Abdul Hakeem Sialkoti
24	Hadrat Khwaja Shams al-Din Siyalawi
24	Hadrat Mahar Muhammad Sobah Naqshbandi Lahori
24	Hadrat Mawlana Abdul Hakeem Farangi Mahali
25	Hadrat Ahmad Khudrawiyah
25	Hadrat Shaykh Ahmad Majd Shaybani Narnoli
25	AlaHadrat Imam Ahl-e-Sunnat Imam Ahmad Rida Khan Baraylawi
25	Hadrat Sayyid Qalandr Ali Suharwardi
25	Mufti Shaykh Abdur Razzaq Qadri Lakhnawi
25	Hadrat Allamah Imad al-Din Rifa'ee Surrati
25	Hadrat Shah Abdul Razzaq Farangi Mahali
26	Hadrat Meer Sayyid Hassan Qadri
26	Hadrat Sayyid Alim al-Din Chishti
26	Hadrat Sayyidna Hassan Baghdadi
26	Hadart Shaykh Muhammad Ghous Kakorwi
26	Hadrat Mufti Noor al-Haq Tonki
26	Hadrat Mawlana Mufti Abdul Aziz Qadri Lakhnawi
26	Hadrat Shah Muhammad Sulayman bin Dawood Phulwari
26	Hadrat Mawlana Ameer Ali Ambethwi Shaheed
27	Hadrat Abu Moosa Ra'ee
27	Hadrat Hareeq Aswad Abdaal
27	Hadrat Khwaja Abdul Wahid bin Zaid
27	Hadrat Abu Imran Ra'ee
27	Hadrat Ibrahim bin Isa Isfahani
27	Hadrat Shareef al-Din Isa Qitaal bin Ghous-e-Azam
27	Hadrat Abu Abdur Rahman Abdullah bin Ghous-al-Azam
27	Hadrat Abdul Raheem Maghribi Ashiq-e-Nabi
27	Sultan-e-Adil Hadrat Sultan Salah-al-Din Ayyubi
27	Hadrat Shaykh Yahya Gujrati
27	Hadrat Khwaja Yahya Madani Chishti
27	Shareh Bukhari Hadrat Imam Badr al-Din Aeyni
27	Hadrat Abdul Wahid Farid
27	Hadrat Sharf al-Din
27	Hadrat Shah Ballaaqi Muraadabadi
27	Hadrat Muhammad Azeem Hassan Ukhra Barkhiya
27	Hadrat Mawlana Shah Imdad Hussain Rampuri
28	Hadrat Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba
28	Hadrat Abu Bakr Muhammad Waffaq
28	Hadrat Shaykh Ahmad San'ani
28	Hadrat Shaykh Shams al-Haq Barray Haqqani
28	Hadrat Khwaja Abu Yousuf Muhaiyyi al-Din Yahya Madani
28	Hadrat Shah Ubaid al-Majeed
28	Hadrat Shah Badr al-Din Urf Ballaqi Shah
28	Hadrat Shah Muhammad Sulayman Phulwari
28	Hadrat Shah Jahangir
28	Khwaja Hafidh Abdul Kareem Naqshbandi Amratsari
28	Hafidh Abdul Kareem Rawalpindi
28	Hadrat Sadiq Shah Sahib Kanpuri
28	Hadrat Sayyid Meer Muhammad Ahmad Siddiq Lakhnawi
28	Hadrat Allamah Raham Ilahi Muzaffar Nagri (Teacher of Mufti-e-Azam)
29	Hadrat Meer Muhammad Ya'qoob Gilani
29	Hadrat al-Shah Imam Nawawi
29	Hadrat Sayyidna Peer Mahr Ali Shah Gilani Golarrawi
29	Hadrat Peer Fateh Muhammad
29	Hadrat Imam-e-Rabbani Mujaddid Alf-e-Thani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi
30	Hadrat Hafidh al-Hadith Imam Muhammad Hakim Nishapuri
Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhum Ajma'een (Allah is well please with them All)