Publishing the narrated statements regarding some of the Imams
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, what is your view on the statements of the revered Imam, the upholder of the Sunnah and the suppressor of bid'ah (religious innovation), Ahmad ibn Hanbal, regarding Abu Hanifah, which his son Abdullah mentioned in *al-Sunnah*, and which al-Khatib al-Baghdadi mentioned in his *Tarikh*? Are the statements of Imam Ahmad to be rejected as incorrect?
The Shaykh:
We remain silent about them and do not praise them. It is obligatory that they be drunk, and it is obligatory that they not be carved or published. It is obligatory that they not be published because they are errors of their heads, and Allah knows best. We have an interest in their publication; they remain in their books in their place. We do not transmit them, read them in gatherings, or announce them to the people. They remain in the books in which they are, or the one who wrote them bears them.
The questioner:
There are among the students of knowledge those who are eager to read them.
The Shaykh:
No, it is not permissible for the one sitting [to do so]. This is not permissible. Leave them in their books, and do not publish them to the people. Do not read them in gatherings. Let the one who wrote them bear them.
Honorable Shaykh, what is your view on the statements of the revered Imam, the upholder of the Sunnah and the suppressor of bid'ah (religious innovation), Ahmad ibn Hanbal, regarding Abu Hanifah, which his son Abdullah mentioned in *al-Sunnah*, and which al-Khatib al-Baghdadi mentioned in his *Tarikh*? Are the statements of Imam Ahmad to be rejected as incorrect?
The Shaykh:
We remain silent about them and do not praise them. It is obligatory that they be drunk, and it is obligatory that they not be carved or published. It is obligatory that they not be published because they are errors of their heads, and Allah knows best. We have an interest in their publication; they remain in their books in their place. We do not transmit them, read them in gatherings, or announce them to the people. They remain in the books in which they are, or the one who wrote them bears them.
The questioner:
There are among the students of knowledge those who are eager to read them.
The Shaykh:
No, it is not permissible for the one sitting [to do so]. This is not permissible. Leave them in their books, and do not publish them to the people. Do not read them in gatherings. Let the one who wrote them bear them.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 48 من 64 / شرح القصيدة النونية/شبه تهافت كالزجاج تخالها حقا / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (56:36)
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