The Shaykh’s response to the Hanafis’ condition that a narrator must be a jurist for the acceptance of a hadith narrated by meaning.
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The Shaykh : Among things of this kind is their condition that the narrator be a jurist. Where is the jurisprudence in the Hanafi narrators of hadiths? Is there anyone among the narrators they follow who is like Abu Hanifah or equal to him in jurisprudence? This condition does not exist in the world of investigation; rather, it is, as they say, ink on paper. Is that clear?