Refuting the Doubt of Contradiction in the Hadiths of Disagreement and the Obligation to Return to the Book and the Sunnah

Question:
The questioner: There are many questions here, but we will open the floor for just one. With us is Prince Khalid ibn Talal, who wishes to present his question directly. Honorable Shaykh, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Your Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah reward you with good, and may He reward the scholars, especially the Shaykh from ‘Arar and the students of knowledge from ‘Arar, for answering clear and direct questions that our scholars are supposed to respond to so that they can expose the doubts. I urge those who submit questions not to withhold these questions from our scholars, because they follow and respond with what is in the Book and the Sunnah and the Salaf al-Salih. The question, may Allah keep you safe, is about the hadith: And then at the end of the other hadith: So in these two hadiths, may Allah keep you safe, please clarify for us, Your Excellency the Shaykh, that many groups and madhahib, from the Sufis and the Rafidah and those who call themselves Malikis, and so on, are appearing. So we must clarify to them who we are, the people of the Book and the Sunnah? And if we do not clarify ourselves, we will be mixed up with the others. And I think there is no contradiction in the two hadiths, but if you clarify the difference in the two hadiths and comment on what I mentioned, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
The Shaykh: As for the first statement, it is not a hadith, because it is from the words of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, meaning from the fanaticism of a madhhab, or a country, or a tribe, or… And as for the hadith of disagreement that will occur, that is a hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: And the obligatory thing when there is disagreement is that we return to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) to know the truth from the correct, to know the truth from the falsehood and the correct from the error, so we take the truth and the correct and know the error and the misguidance. This is the obligation of everyone. As for the one who does not return, he is from the people of desires, the one to whom the Book is clear but he does not return from his statement, he follows his own desires. The people of misguidance, may Allah protect us from that, and there is no contradiction between the hadiths in this.
The Shaykh: They all explain each other and clarify each other. The ruling is that it is not obligatory that disagreement occur for this Ummah as it occurred for the nations before it. But the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us to do what the nations did when they differed, and that is returning to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. We consider the disagreement among us, we are one group and one Ummah, our Book is one, our Prophet is one, and our religion is one, so why do we not follow?
The Shaykh: So we have the Book, and it is obligatory that we divide that and accept the truth, even if it contradicts our desires. For, for, for the good outcome is in the truth, even if it contradicts our desires, and the bad outcome is in the truth, even if it agrees with our desires and our lusts. It is obligatory for us to know this.
We know this value, and we are now in a time of division between one group and another, but praise be to Allah that He has given us something to which we can return and by which we can hold fast in this division, namely your women. I asked about you what, if you hold fast to it, you will not go astray, with attention to the Book of Allah and His Sunnah. This is from that, yes.