What is your opinion of the one who says: that the book of Ibn Abi Hatim, *al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil*, is a copy of the book *al-Tarikh al-Kabir* by al-Bukhari.
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The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, this statement of yours brings us into the realm of refuting a claim mentioned in books of terminology or in books of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil, that the book of Ibn Abi Hatim is a copy of the book of al-Bukhari. So your statement, in a sense, refutes this idea from its foundation.
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, this is injustice.
The questioner : Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : This is without a doubt.
The questioner : What Allah willed.
The Shaykh : But he, without a doubt, means...
The questioner : He benefited.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. As is the nature of the later scholar with the earlier one, he benefits.
The questioner : The predecessor and the successor.
The Shaykh : And we, in a sense, the honor belongs to these people, but this does not mean that it is a carbon copy. Ibn Abi Hatim, without a doubt, contributed a great deal of knowledge to the field of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil, knowledge that cannot be derived from al-Bukhari's histories, except that we exclude this middle one, which we have not yet identified, *al-Tarikh al-Muttasil* of al-Bukhari.
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, this is injustice.
The questioner : Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : This is without a doubt.
The questioner : What Allah willed.
The Shaykh : But he, without a doubt, means...
The questioner : He benefited.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. As is the nature of the later scholar with the earlier one, he benefits.
The questioner : The predecessor and the successor.
The Shaykh : And we, in a sense, the honor belongs to these people, but this does not mean that it is a carbon copy. Ibn Abi Hatim, without a doubt, contributed a great deal of knowledge to the field of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil, knowledge that cannot be derived from al-Bukhari's histories, except that we exclude this middle one, which we have not yet identified, *al-Tarikh al-Muttasil* of al-Bukhari.