Al-San'ani's Reliance on the Hadith of the One Who Ruined His Prayer Regarding the Pillars and Obligations
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The questioner: Our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: What is with them.
The questioner: No, no, it must be there, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: We ask them to benefit us.
The questioner: So, what is the question from yesterday regarding the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer? This is a good question, by Allah. Our Shaykh, he says in *Subul al-Salam* about the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer: "Many scholars have relied on this hadith to include the pillars and the obligatory acts. And every command that comes outside this hadith, either the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer diverts it from obligation to recommendation, or the emerging command likewise requires another indicator or preponderant evidence to clarify that it is for obligation." So, what is your opinion, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Without a doubt, it gathered many of the pillars and the obligatory acts, but it did not gather all the obligatory acts. Therefore, the obligatory acts can be established by means other than the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer; this is the first point. Second, the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer has many narrations, the most famous of which is the narration of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim) from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah. So, the one who says this should, if it is absolutely necessary to utter that statement you quoted earlier from *Subul al-Salam*, at least have gathered all the routes of the hadith and all the benefits of the hadith and classified them into issues: one, two, three, five, ten, twenty. And this is what no one has done after him. Therefore, this statement has no value, even if it were correct in itself, because correctness, if we grant it for the sake of argument, requires gathering the wordings of the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer so that we can say that these are the obligatory acts that came in the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer. And this does not exist. I had a draft of a project, and it still exists with me, to gather the routes and wordings of this hadith, but, glory be to Allah, many distractions prevented me from executing and completing this project, which is important. And I think the answer has become clear to you, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: What is with them.
The questioner: No, no, it must be there, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: We ask them to benefit us.
The questioner: So, what is the question from yesterday regarding the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer? This is a good question, by Allah. Our Shaykh, he says in *Subul al-Salam* about the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer: "Many scholars have relied on this hadith to include the pillars and the obligatory acts. And every command that comes outside this hadith, either the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer diverts it from obligation to recommendation, or the emerging command likewise requires another indicator or preponderant evidence to clarify that it is for obligation." So, what is your opinion, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Without a doubt, it gathered many of the pillars and the obligatory acts, but it did not gather all the obligatory acts. Therefore, the obligatory acts can be established by means other than the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer; this is the first point. Second, the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer has many narrations, the most famous of which is the narration of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim) from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah. So, the one who says this should, if it is absolutely necessary to utter that statement you quoted earlier from *Subul al-Salam*, at least have gathered all the routes of the hadith and all the benefits of the hadith and classified them into issues: one, two, three, five, ten, twenty. And this is what no one has done after him. Therefore, this statement has no value, even if it were correct in itself, because correctness, if we grant it for the sake of argument, requires gathering the wordings of the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer so that we can say that these are the obligatory acts that came in the hadith of the one who ruined his prayer. And this does not exist. I had a draft of a project, and it still exists with me, to gather the routes and wordings of this hadith, but, glory be to Allah, many distractions prevented me from executing and completing this project, which is important. And I think the answer has become clear to you, if Allah wills.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، رقم 935 في قناة «تسجيلات الإمام الألباني - محمد أبو ليلى الأثري» — youtube.com (1:57)
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