He mentions incidents that occurred to him with Shaykh Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut.
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The questioner : Well, my Shaykh, in a previous session, we mentioned something about Shaykh Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut, so you told me, meaning: I have had incidents with the Shaykh that I will relate to you in another session.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It would be desirable if the time for fulfilling that promise has come?
The Shaykh : I told you that I hinted to you that if you return to the correction mentioned at the end of *Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah*, there is a note in which I said regarding a certain hadith: "I did not find it," and this was an oversight on my part, because I had traced the hadith in *al-Mishkat* and attributed it to al-Tirmidhi, and clarified that it is weak. This is the text that was printed in *Takhrij al-Tahawiyyah*, which he supervised the proofreading of, and he did not point out this oversight to Zuhayr until after the book had been printed. I was at the university at the time, so he sent me the Shaykh's note that he had submitted to Zuhayr, asking me to write a response so that we could include it as a correction at the end of the book. I wrote the response correcting what was mentioned and emphasized that I myself had traced the hadith in *al-Mishkat*, which was printed long before the *'Aqidah*. There are, in fact, many incidents that indicate that the man was not impartial in his role of proofreading the books that Zuhayr publishes and which he is responsible for correcting.
And now, my memory is distant regarding some of the other incidents that should be mentioned as examples, but this example is, in truth, recorded and cannot be erased from history.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It would be desirable if the time for fulfilling that promise has come?
The Shaykh : I told you that I hinted to you that if you return to the correction mentioned at the end of *Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah*, there is a note in which I said regarding a certain hadith: "I did not find it," and this was an oversight on my part, because I had traced the hadith in *al-Mishkat* and attributed it to al-Tirmidhi, and clarified that it is weak. This is the text that was printed in *Takhrij al-Tahawiyyah*, which he supervised the proofreading of, and he did not point out this oversight to Zuhayr until after the book had been printed. I was at the university at the time, so he sent me the Shaykh's note that he had submitted to Zuhayr, asking me to write a response so that we could include it as a correction at the end of the book. I wrote the response correcting what was mentioned and emphasized that I myself had traced the hadith in *al-Mishkat*, which was printed long before the *'Aqidah*. There are, in fact, many incidents that indicate that the man was not impartial in his role of proofreading the books that Zuhayr publishes and which he is responsible for correcting.
And now, my memory is distant regarding some of the other incidents that should be mentioned as examples, but this example is, in truth, recorded and cannot be erased from history.