Memorizing the Text of Zad al-Mustaqni' and the Methodology of Students of Knowledge in Texts
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, do you recommend memorizing the text of Zad al-Mustaqni'? Is it memorized before 'Umdat al-Ahkam and Bulugh al-Maram? Did students of knowledge in the past memorize it?
The Shaykh:
Students of knowledge in the past did not limit themselves to a single text. They would memorize a text in fiqh, a text in grammar, a text in hadith, a text in usul al-fiqh, and a text on hadith terminology. They would read all of these together. They would not stick to just one. A group would read, row by row, two rows.
Under the Shaykh, who would explain from multiple books, multiple texts. They would memorize from this one and that one and this one, because knowledge serves each other and connects to each other; so knowledge assists one another. Grammar assists fiqh and assists tafsir and assists, and likewise tafsir and explaining hadith assists fiqh and assists grammar, and so on. That is, the sciences share in meanings and objectives. A student of knowledge does not limit himself to one text until he finishes it, then takes a second text. No, he takes a text like this and a text like this and a text like this, like the one who builds a structure. He builds it all together. He does not stand it up for his son, for his son, for his son, then go back and stand it up for his son. No, he stands up the wall all at once, bit by bit. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
And what about those who have the determination now? The Ummah now, with the satellite channels, and the internet, and the buying of stocks, and the outings and the rest houses, has not abolished knowledge for us now.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, do you recommend memorizing the text of Zad al-Mustaqni'? Is it memorized before 'Umdat al-Ahkam and Bulugh al-Maram? Did students of knowledge in the past memorize it?
The Shaykh:
Students of knowledge in the past did not limit themselves to a single text. They would memorize a text in fiqh, a text in grammar, a text in hadith, a text in usul al-fiqh, and a text on hadith terminology. They would read all of these together. They would not stick to just one. A group would read, row by row, two rows.
Under the Shaykh, who would explain from multiple books, multiple texts. They would memorize from this one and that one and this one, because knowledge serves each other and connects to each other; so knowledge assists one another. Grammar assists fiqh and assists tafsir and assists, and likewise tafsir and explaining hadith assists fiqh and assists grammar, and so on. That is, the sciences share in meanings and objectives. A student of knowledge does not limit himself to one text until he finishes it, then takes a second text. No, he takes a text like this and a text like this and a text like this, like the one who builds a structure. He builds it all together. He does not stand it up for his son, for his son, for his son, then go back and stand it up for his son. No, he stands up the wall all at once, bit by bit. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
And what about those who have the determination now? The Ummah now, with the satellite channels, and the internet, and the buying of stocks, and the outings and the rest houses, has not abolished knowledge for us now.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/141 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (44:48)
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