Who are the people of hadith mentioned in the hadith of the Saved Sect and the Victorious Group?
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Question:
You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, that the Saved Sect and the Victorious Group are the people of hadith. He asks: Are they the ones called the people of hadith in the contemporary era as well?
Answer:
I mean, the people of hadith are among them, but they are not limited to the people of hadith; rather, the people of hadith are among them because they are more deserving of that. A hadith scholar is not the one who reads books of hadith. He was told: A hadith scholar is the one who took hadith from the scholars, from the memorizers. He took the science of narration and hadith from the precise memorizers. It is not that everyone who reads books of hadith becomes a hadith scholar. Yes. Knowledge is not taken from books, and hadith is not taken from books; it is taken from the trustworthy narrators. Yes.
You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, that the Saved Sect and the Victorious Group are the people of hadith. He asks: Are they the ones called the people of hadith in the contemporary era as well?
Answer:
I mean, the people of hadith are among them, but they are not limited to the people of hadith; rather, the people of hadith are among them because they are more deserving of that. A hadith scholar is not the one who reads books of hadith. He was told: A hadith scholar is the one who took hadith from the scholars, from the memorizers. He took the science of narration and hadith from the precise memorizers. It is not that everyone who reads books of hadith becomes a hadith scholar. Yes. Knowledge is not taken from books, and hadith is not taken from books; it is taken from the trustworthy narrators. Yes.
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، من هم أهل الحديث الذين ذكروا في حديث الطائفة المنصورة والفرقة الناجية؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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