The Authenticity of the Hadith on Praying Behind Every Righteous and Wicked Person, and the Meaning of the Abdal
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The questioner:
And is the hadith "Pray behind every righteous and virtuous person" authentic?
The Shaykh:
It is followed, but with the authentic one, one should pray behind a righteous person who is followed.
The questioner:
The phrase "Atta Allah 'anaka al-Abdal."
The Shaykh:
The scholars replace one another, meaning some succeed others. They are called the abdal because when a scholar dies, a scholar comes in his place, just as when a messenger dies, a messenger comes in his place. The scholars are the successors of the messengers. The term is also applied to the righteous, the people of the Sunnah and the community, the callers to the truth. It is possible to summarize the paths, it is possible to summarize the paths. The Shaykh intended, if Allah wills, to summarize the paths, tying them together. I think that is what it means? This is its meaning: the scholars conceal one another, explained by something else from the Khurafiyun. What is the philosophy of this other thing? The Khurafiyun believe in every scholar and every worshipper; they attribute to them the light of Allah, and they are not role models.
And is the hadith "Pray behind every righteous and virtuous person" authentic?
The Shaykh:
It is followed, but with the authentic one, one should pray behind a righteous person who is followed.
The questioner:
The phrase "Atta Allah 'anaka al-Abdal."
The Shaykh:
The scholars replace one another, meaning some succeed others. They are called the abdal because when a scholar dies, a scholar comes in his place, just as when a messenger dies, a messenger comes in his place. The scholars are the successors of the messengers. The term is also applied to the righteous, the people of the Sunnah and the community, the callers to the truth. It is possible to summarize the paths, it is possible to summarize the paths. The Shaykh intended, if Allah wills, to summarize the paths, tying them together. I think that is what it means? This is its meaning: the scholars conceal one another, explained by something else from the Khurafiyun. What is the philosophy of this other thing? The Khurafiyun believe in every scholar and every worshipper; they attribute to them the light of Allah, and they are not role models.
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