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 251:
  

  Imam Mālik Ibn Anās was born in

  Options:
  A) Basra
  B) al-Madīnah
  C) Makkah
  D) Kūfah
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 252:

  Maliki yawmid-Din is translated as

  Options:
  A) guide us through the right path
  B) praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
  C) the Beneficient, the Merciful
  D) the King of the Day of Judgement
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 253:

  The text of talbiyah in hājj emphasizes the pilgrim's

  Options:
  A) readiness to observe the rites of ℎājj to the end
  B) realization of the uniqueness of the rites of ℎājj
  C) recognition of Allah's absolute authority
  D) aspiration for a reward
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 254:

  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 255:

  In Sūrat al - Mā'ūn(Q.107), we learn that a good believer should not

  Options:
  A) assist in wrongdoing
  B) tell lies
  C) repulse the orphan
  D) harm a fellow Muslim
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 256: The practice of comparing the back of one’s wife to that of one’s mother as a method of divorce was known as Options:
  A) faskh
  B) liān
  C) zihār
  D) ilā
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 257:

  The authenticity of a hadith may be faulted if

  Options:
  A) its wording is too close to the text of the Qur'an
  B) it is no longer than a verse of the Qur'an
  C) its narrator was not from Makkah
  D) it contradicts a Quranic injunction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 258: The real name of Imam al-Bukhari is Options:
  A) Musa b. Muhammad
  B) Muhammad b. Ahmad
  C) Isma’il b. Yaqub
  D) Muhammad b. Isma’il
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 259:

  "Allāh doth command you To render back your Trusts To those to whom they are due;
  And when ye judge Between man and man That ye judge with justice...' (Q.4:58). Inherent in the Qur'ānic verse above are the virtues of amānah and

  Options:
  A) diyāfah
  B) Karāmah
  C) adālah
  D) Khusū
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 260:

  How many Caliphs did the Glorious Qur’an

  Pas through before its standardization?

  Options:
  A) Six
  B) Four
  C) Three “Abubakar, Umar then Uthman”
  D) Two.
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  The correct answer is C .