I hope you will clarify what you mentioned about the fact that the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) silence is not always an approval?

The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O esteemed Shaykh. You mentioned that the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) silence is not always an approval. I hope you will clarify that, and may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : It seems the questioner is saying: You mentioned this in some gatherings and in some sermons, otherwise I said earlier at the beginning of this session that the Sunnah is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), his doing, and his approval. I said it this way, and I ranked his (peace be upon him) approval of something at the level of his doing it or his saying it, whether as permission, encouragement, or command. As for this question, you did indeed mention in some gatherings that the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) silence is not always an approval in some cases. This is explicit in some hadiths, including the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), which al-Hakim and others narrated with a sound chain, and among them Abu Ya'la in his Musnad: And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said in some hadiths: meaning that charity is not permissible, especially if the one asking for it is a wealthy person, who is the one upon whom it is obligatory to give charity. meaning one who has strength and a sound build and is not disabled. But what used to happen sometimes, and what his Companions witnessed, was that a man who was strong and sound in build would come to him and ask him, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) would give him whatever was easy for him to give. When the beggar left with what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) had given him under his armpit, he would say to those around him: meaning that I give to him so that he does not return to his tribe or his people and talk about me if I did not give to him, saying that Muhammad is a stingy man. And Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) disliked for him (peace and blessings be upon him) that people should talk about him, even if it was about stinginess, saying that he is stingy. So he gives. His giving to this one who does not deserve charity, and his silence regarding it, does not mean approval of his action. Rather, that is an exception to the rule that silence is approval, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) clarified in this hadith why he gives to him and leaves him, saying to his Companions when he leaves, explaining that he only gives under compulsion. The compulsion here is legal, not physical, because he is able to prevent him and turn him away and say, "You are strong, with a complete body and build." But he fears that behind that, he (peace and blessings be upon him) will be attributed to stinginess, and that is something that drives people away from him. From a hadith like this, some scholars who speak on tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and 'aqidah (creed) derived that the original state of the prophets is that they should be perfect in their appearances and not be repulsive to people in their forms, because that is not consistent with their calling people to the call of truth, the call of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and the call of the Shari'ah (Islamic sacred law) that Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) revealed to them all.
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