Why is the majority opinion preferred in the disagreement among Ibn Ma'in's students?
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The Shaykh: What do we put in something, O Abu Layla, in something?
The presenter: Let's put down the food, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: All right, please go ahead.
The questioner: A matter, O our Shaykh, related to you (may Allah preserve him), my teacher. Why, O our Shaykh, in the topic of Ibn Ma'in and the disagreement of his students regarding him, did we resort to preferring the majority opinion and not resort to preferring the foundational principle of the topic of criticism (jarh) or its generalization or what is similar to that?
The Shaykh: It is because the person about whom the statements were made is one person, and the narrator for authentication is one person, while for weakening it is a group, unlike if there were statements from other imams, in which case the review would differ from this situation. That is, here we took the majority. Because it is likely to be assumed that the single authenticator from Ibn Ma'in. Or or or or
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: In the possibility, I mean.
Another questioner: It resembles anomaly (shudhdh) and the addition by a trustworthy narrator, and this is the chapter.
The Shaykh: Correct, this is it.
Another questioner: The Shaykh stipulated, he said: If the circumstances are absent. The Shaykh in his answer said: There is nothing but this statement. This means if there are circumstances, something else.
The presenter: Let's put down the food, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: All right, please go ahead.
The questioner: A matter, O our Shaykh, related to you (may Allah preserve him), my teacher. Why, O our Shaykh, in the topic of Ibn Ma'in and the disagreement of his students regarding him, did we resort to preferring the majority opinion and not resort to preferring the foundational principle of the topic of criticism (jarh) or its generalization or what is similar to that?
The Shaykh: It is because the person about whom the statements were made is one person, and the narrator for authentication is one person, while for weakening it is a group, unlike if there were statements from other imams, in which case the review would differ from this situation. That is, here we took the majority. Because it is likely to be assumed that the single authenticator from Ibn Ma'in. Or or or or
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: In the possibility, I mean.
Another questioner: It resembles anomaly (shudhdh) and the addition by a trustworthy narrator, and this is the chapter.
The Shaykh: Correct, this is it.
Another questioner: The Shaykh stipulated, he said: If the circumstances are absent. The Shaykh in his answer said: There is nothing but this statement. This means if there are circumstances, something else.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 847 — d3watuna.com (50:36)
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