Islamic-Religious-Knowledge Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Islamic Religious Studies, otherwise known as Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK), is the subject concerned with the study of the Islamic religion.

• Question 11:

  A Hadith in which the chain of narration and text are sound is known as

  Options:
  A) Mash'hur
  B) Maqtu
  C) Mursa
  D) Sahih
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 12:

  Qu'ran is an evidence for or against you is part of Hadith _____ of al-Nawawi's collections.

  Options:
  A) 21
  B) 22
  C) 23
  D) 24
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 13:

  The first man created by Allah was called _____ (ASW)

  Options:
  A) Dawud
  B) Musa
  C) Isa
  D) Adam
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 14:

  Tawaful Wadai means___

  Options:
  A) visiting the prophet’s grave
  B) farewell circumambulation
  C) Tawaf al-Ifadan
  D) visitation to the orphans in Makkah
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 15: In Q.17:27, the extravagant are likened to associates of Options:
  A) pious people
  B) pharaoh
  C) satan
  D) soothsayers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 16:

  ‘Surely, we created man of the best stature, then, we reduced him to the lowest of the low save those who believe and good works'

  This quotation is from Surat

  Options:
  A) al Asr
  B) al-Alaq
  C) al-Tīn
  D) al-Bayyinah
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 17: The scholar who adopted Tafsīr bil Ma’athūr in his commentary was Options:
  A) Abu Abdullahi Shaddād B. Aws
  B) As-Sassās Abū Bakr Ahmed b. Ali
  C) At-Tabari Abū Jāfar Muhammed b. Jarir
  D) Al-Qutubi Muhammad Abū Abdullahi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 18: The Prophet (S.A.W) died in the year Options:
  A) 632 C.E
  B) 610 C.E
  C) 519 C.E
  D) 517 C.E
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 19: In the hadīth that ends with ‘…piety is based right here …’, the Prophet (S.A.W.) meant the Options:
  A) hand
  B) heart
  C) city of Makkah
  D) city of al-Madīnah
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 20:

  Al-Quddus is to the Holy as Al-Mutakabbir is to the

  Options:
  A) exalted
  B) almighty
  C) compeller
  D) supreme
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  The correct answer is D .