What is the ruling on the command to stand in the middle for the imam and the practice of Muslims based on a weak hadith?

The Shaykh: Understood, O Shaykh. The whole mosque is the house of Allah.

The questioner : I and you say this, but there are people who understand it like a wooden plank; do not take it.

The Shaykh: The one you saw in it.

The questioner: By Allah, I am a tired carpenter.

The Shaykh : Ha ha.

The questioner : These people. They were busy. (peace and blessings be upon him). I do not want to continue with all my questions, perhaps someone else has a question if there is none.

The Shaykh : By Allah, this is my carpet, Ahmad. Whoever has a question, please go ahead.

The questioner : That the meaning is to stand in the middle, and the meaning is correct as long as this hadith is weak. Wait, wait, you are writing it for me, it is normal, sit down. Yes. And We made you. By Allah, my every thought is that it is a hadith about the middle and the imam hadith.

The Shaykh : No, this is a hadith from the section of my book, it is weak, in Sunan Abu Dawud. But the practice of the Muslims is the proof in the matter. The practice of the Muslims is the proof in the matter. And it is among the meanings. The well-known verse to the end of the verse, so the path of the believers must be followed, and it is not necessary that we have a text in every detailed issue, this text on this issue in detail, it is confusing. In matters that are taken by way of derivation, by way of transmission, and this is of this type. So the command which is in the wording "stand in the middle" is narrated, but with a weak chain, but the practice is established upon it, and therefore we do not say that the practice of the Muslims in accordance with a hadith, as some scholars say, is proof of the authenticity of the hadith, absolutely not, because the hadith may carry in its depths a meaning more precise than what the practice of the Muslims carries, so the practice of the Muslims can be said to be recommended, it can be said to be a confirmed sunnah, it can be said to be obligatory, it can be said to be fard for those who distinguish between wajib and fard, but when the hadith comes and commands, all these possibilities and probabilities are removed, and there remains one ruling, which is that it is obligatory for the imam to stand in the middle of the followers, this is a matter of authentic reports, if you allow me. Good, if Allah wills. And that is the practice of the weak hadith, but here what I see is the opposite. You see the opposite. That is, the practice. Something the opposite. The opposite. You are also saying yes. Okay, so I mean, if you ate air, it would be in its place. No, no, I am not saying that here the practice of the weak hadith. Definitely. It is reasonable that I do not remember. The topic of the practice of the weak hadith, I understood you, I am saying that here it is the opposite, that the practice of the Muslims is what testified to the hadith, and not the opposite, that our practice is of the weak hadith. No, your speech. May Allah give you. No, no, your speech is the lover. Please. The hadith, the practice of the Muslims did not testify to the hadith. Yes. And this is what we have decided now. You said that. We said that the practice of the Muslims may have several meanings, but you cannot say that the intended meaning is this, but when the hadith comes and it commands standing in the middle, these ambiguous meanings are removed, and we said this, and therefore you cannot say that the practice of the Muslims testifies to the hadith, hadithically, no. No, no. My dear. Not better hadithically, may Allah guide you, jurisprudentially too, where are you? The fourth. The hadith remains weak. It remains narrow? And if its meaning is reasonable. Not all of its meaning, my sir. Therefore I said, my statement is a matter of meaning, so the shaykh.

The questioner : He tells you its meaning is specific, the hadith’s meaning is specific, that one’s meanings are broad. What are its meanings, that one? That it may be, as he told you, with recommended.

The Shaykh : Now, now, go back. Changing the obligatory, degrees, degrees. Middle and. Go back now, suppose that this hadith is authentic.