What is the answer to the one who says: The hadith of the division of the Ummah is not in al-Bukhari and Muslim, so why do we divide the Ummah?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are those who say and write that the hadith of the divisionSahih Ibn Hibban 62:615 is not in al-Bukhari and Muslim, so why do we divide the Ummah? Is it not enough for us to say that they are Muslims and leave it at that? What is the answer to this?
The Shaykh:
The answer to this is clear. Are all the hadiths of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in al-Bukhari and Muslim? There are many hadiths outside of al-Bukhari and Muslim. But al-Bukhari and Muslim took what was authentic according to their terminology and applied their terminology to it. There may be authentic hadiths, but their terminology does not apply to them. Therefore, al-Bukhari and Muslim did not narrate them because their terminology, which they adhered to, did not apply to them.
Therefore, the *mustakhrajat* (extractions) on the authentic were produced. Al-Bukhari and Muslim came, and the *al-Mustadrak* (The Suppletions) came. There is no hadith in al-Bukhari and Muslim that is not authentic. As for other than al-Bukhari and Muslim, they contain the authentic, the weak, the authentic, the good, and the weak. This is because their authors did not adhere to extracting only the authentic, like Imam Ahmad in the *Musnad* and like the Four *Sunan*s; they did not adhere to including only what is authentic. Rather, they present them with the chain of narration. And whoever presents them with the chain of narration has discharged the responsibility. They examine the chain and its narrators, study them, and extract what is authentic, what is good, and what is weak through the chains of narration. Yes.
The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, in our saying.
The Shaykh:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said only, they said: So-and-so narrated from so-and-so, from so-and-so, from so-and-so, a connected chain to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So the people of knowledge come and study the chain and extract the authentic from the rest. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are those who say and write that the hadith of the division
The Ummah is upon seventy-three sects
الأُمَّةُ عَلَى ثَلاثٍ وَسَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةًThe Shaykh:
The answer to this is clear. Are all the hadiths of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in al-Bukhari and Muslim? There are many hadiths outside of al-Bukhari and Muslim. But al-Bukhari and Muslim took what was authentic according to their terminology and applied their terminology to it. There may be authentic hadiths, but their terminology does not apply to them. Therefore, al-Bukhari and Muslim did not narrate them because their terminology, which they adhered to, did not apply to them.
Therefore, the *mustakhrajat* (extractions) on the authentic were produced. Al-Bukhari and Muslim came, and the *al-Mustadrak* (The Suppletions) came. There is no hadith in al-Bukhari and Muslim that is not authentic. As for other than al-Bukhari and Muslim, they contain the authentic, the weak, the authentic, the good, and the weak. This is because their authors did not adhere to extracting only the authentic, like Imam Ahmad in the *Musnad* and like the Four *Sunan*s; they did not adhere to including only what is authentic. Rather, they present them with the chain of narration. And whoever presents them with the chain of narration has discharged the responsibility. They examine the chain and its narrators, study them, and extract what is authentic, what is good, and what is weak through the chains of narration. Yes.
The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, in our saying.
The Shaykh:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said only, they said: So-and-so narrated from so-and-so, from so-and-so, from so-and-so, a connected chain to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So the people of knowledge come and study the chain and extract the authentic from the rest. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [476 -1024] ما الجواب على من يقول: إن حديث افتراق الأمة ليس في البخاري ومسلم، فلماذا نفرق الأمة؟ — youtube.com
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