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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is there a hadith established: “Whoever from my Ummah takes charge of a matter is given the intellect of forty men, the most intelligent of them”?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said, “Whoever from my Ummah takes charge of a matter is given the intellect of forty men, the most intelligent of them,” or something similar?

Answer:
He answers: Where is the evidence for this? Where did he take this hadith from? From which book? Who traced it to its sources? Yes, there are many fabricated hadiths that some ignorant people or the people of misguidance may spread. So one must be cautious in such matters. The scholars and the memorizers (may Allah have mercy on them) did not fall short in guarding the Sunnah and clarifying what is foreign to it and what is fabricated. In fact, they established a strong barrier for the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and they isolated from it every foreign element, every fabrication, and every lie. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [5 -858] هل ثبت حديث: ما تولى من أمتي من أحد إلا أعطي عقل أربعين رجلاً من أعقلهم؟ — youtube.com

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