A Response to Those Who Cite the Hadith: “If You Had Not Sinned”
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, how do we respond to those who, when we advise them, reply to us with the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “If you had not sinned, Allah would have taken you away”? They complete the hadith, though they do not complete it:Sahih Muslim 2749 Then they seek forgiveness, then they seek forgiveness, with this condition.
Answer:
As for their claim that they are kept away from it and then they go, no, this is not what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But this is taking from the hadith what is suitable for it and swearing by what is not suitable for it. This is distorting words from their proper places. We ask Allah for safety.
Honorable Shaykh, how do we respond to those who, when we advise them, reply to us with the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “If you had not sinned, Allah would have taken you away”? They complete the hadith, though they do not complete it:
if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin
لو لم تذنبوا لذهب الله بكم ولجاء بقوم يذنبونAnswer:
As for their claim that they are kept away from it and then they go, no, this is not what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But this is taking from the hadith what is suitable for it and swearing by what is not suitable for it. This is distorting words from their proper places. We ask Allah for safety.
Source
الرد على من يحتجون بحديث : « لو لم تذنبوا لذهب الله بكم ... » على الاستمرار على المعاصي — alfawzan.live
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.