What is meant by Ibn Taymiyyah's statement regarding the hadith of the wild goats: "This hadith is narrated from two routes, and a defect in one of them does not affect the other"?
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The questioner : Shaykh, when Ibn Taymiyyah said regarding the hadith of the wild goats: "and the defect in the hadith".
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Ibn Taymiyyah's statement regarding the hadith of the wild goats, where he said: "This hadith is narrated from two routes, and a defect in one of them does not affect the other", what does he mean by the two routes, the one narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah?
The Shaykh : Pardon me, my brother, wait and raise your voice, and what does Ibn Taymiyyah say about the defect?
The questioner : He says: "And it is narrated from two routes, and a defect in one of them does not affect the other".
The Shaykh : So what are the two routes? He did not mention them.
The questioner : He did not mention them, but does he mean the one with Imam Ahmad or the one with Ibn Khuzaymah in the book of Tawhid?
The Shaykh : It is one route!
And this is one of Ibn Taymiyyah's misconceptions, unless he means the hadith by its general meaning, which indicates the Exaltedness of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) above His creation. There is another hadith that conveys this meaning, but the detail found here is not found except in this route which contains obscurity and weakness, so one does not rely on this statement of Ibn Taymiyyah which implies strengthening the hadith by the sum of the two routes, for it has only one route.
The questioner : The one with Ahmad?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Ibn Taymiyyah's statement regarding the hadith of the wild goats, where he said: "This hadith is narrated from two routes, and a defect in one of them does not affect the other", what does he mean by the two routes, the one narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah?
The Shaykh : Pardon me, my brother, wait and raise your voice, and what does Ibn Taymiyyah say about the defect?
The questioner : He says: "And it is narrated from two routes, and a defect in one of them does not affect the other".
The Shaykh : So what are the two routes? He did not mention them.
The questioner : He did not mention them, but does he mean the one with Imam Ahmad or the one with Ibn Khuzaymah in the book of Tawhid?
The Shaykh : It is one route!
And this is one of Ibn Taymiyyah's misconceptions, unless he means the hadith by its general meaning, which indicates the Exaltedness of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) above His creation. There is another hadith that conveys this meaning, but the detail found here is not found except in this route which contains obscurity and weakness, so one does not rely on this statement of Ibn Taymiyyah which implies strengthening the hadith by the sum of the two routes, for it has only one route.
The questioner : The one with Ahmad?
The Shaykh : Yes.