What is the ruling on saying, “I was not preceded to this”?
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Question:
The questioner says: We have a student of knowledge who, when he issues a fatwa or derives a ruling, sometimes says, “I was not preceded to this.” What is your opinion?
Answer:
There is no good in the one who was not preceded to it. That means he understood something that all the scholars of the Muslims, from the first to the last, did not reach. This means it is anomalous; it means he deviated from the scholars of the Muslims.
The questioner says: We have a student of knowledge who, when he issues a fatwa or derives a ruling, sometimes says, “I was not preceded to this.” What is your opinion?
Answer:
There is no good in the one who was not preceded to it. That means he understood something that all the scholars of the Muslims, from the first to the last, did not reach. This means it is anomalous; it means he deviated from the scholars of the Muslims.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم قول هذا لم أسبق إليه؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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