Is it true that the book *Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence* is yours, or is it by al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him)?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah preserve you, is the book *Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence* correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? This is because some preachers claim that the book is one of your works. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : I did not understand the question.
The questioner : It is al-Ma'sumi's book, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : He is asking about al-Ma'sumi's book.
The Shaykh : Al-Ma'sumi?
The questioner : He is asking if the attribution is correct...
The Shaykh : Repeat, repeat.
The questioner : He is asking if the book *Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence* is correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? This is because some preachers claim that the book is one of your works.
The Shaykh : That the book is not among al-Ma'sumi's works?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, there is no doubt that this book is the work of Shaykh al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him). The phrasing in the question that he met me is a linguistic error, because in reality, it was I who met him. He was residing in Makkah and was one of the distinguished Hanafi scholars who emigrated from the oppression of the Russian communists when they established communism as their creed. He sought refuge and emigrated to Makkah and resided there. When I performed Hajj for the first time, I had already heard of him and looked into some of his works, and I was pleased with them. It became clear to me that he was upon the methodology to which we call people: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and what our righteous predecessors were upon. So I visited him at his home, and he gifted me some treatises, including this one. It is still with me, and it bears his handwriting as a gift to Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. We saw that among the means of publishing the Salafi da'wah in Damascus was to print this treatise with a new title, not the author's title, because the author had named this treatise...
The questioner : The Sultan's Gift.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The Sultan's Gift.
The Shaykh : The Sultan's Gift to the Muslims of Japan.
The questioner : The Muslims of Japan.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The Muslims of Japan.
The Shaykh : The Muslims of Japan. So we found it best to use this title and leave the treatise from its beginning to its end exactly as it was. Then some stubborn doctors there, who are rigid in their adherence to tradition, responded to this treatise with things that it is not permissible for us to delve into now.
And among what was mentioned there is that this treatise was falsely attributed to this al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him) and that it is the work of some Damascenes. This is mere speculation without knowledge, and the treatise, as I told you, is with me in his handwriting and signed by this man.
So the treatise is correctly attributed to al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him) and is not the work of anyone else, except for the title only.
The questioner : Dinner, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : Dinner is ready.
The Shaykh : I did not understand the question.
The questioner : It is al-Ma'sumi's book, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : He is asking about al-Ma'sumi's book.
The Shaykh : Al-Ma'sumi?
The questioner : He is asking if the attribution is correct...
The Shaykh : Repeat, repeat.
The questioner : He is asking if the book *Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence* is correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? This is because some preachers claim that the book is one of your works.
The Shaykh : That the book is not among al-Ma'sumi's works?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, there is no doubt that this book is the work of Shaykh al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him). The phrasing in the question that he met me is a linguistic error, because in reality, it was I who met him. He was residing in Makkah and was one of the distinguished Hanafi scholars who emigrated from the oppression of the Russian communists when they established communism as their creed. He sought refuge and emigrated to Makkah and resided there. When I performed Hajj for the first time, I had already heard of him and looked into some of his works, and I was pleased with them. It became clear to me that he was upon the methodology to which we call people: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and what our righteous predecessors were upon. So I visited him at his home, and he gifted me some treatises, including this one. It is still with me, and it bears his handwriting as a gift to Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. We saw that among the means of publishing the Salafi da'wah in Damascus was to print this treatise with a new title, not the author's title, because the author had named this treatise...
The questioner : The Sultan's Gift.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The Sultan's Gift.
The Shaykh : The Sultan's Gift to the Muslims of Japan.
The questioner : The Muslims of Japan.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The Muslims of Japan.
The Shaykh : The Muslims of Japan. So we found it best to use this title and leave the treatise from its beginning to its end exactly as it was. Then some stubborn doctors there, who are rigid in their adherence to tradition, responded to this treatise with things that it is not permissible for us to delve into now.
And among what was mentioned there is that this treatise was falsely attributed to this al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him) and that it is the work of some Damascenes. This is mere speculation without knowledge, and the treatise, as I told you, is with me in his handwriting and signed by this man.
So the treatise is correctly attributed to al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him) and is not the work of anyone else, except for the title only.
The questioner : Dinner, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : Dinner is ready.