Clarifying al-Zayla'i's intended meaning of the term: ghareeb.
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The Shaykh : Please, Professor, what do you have?
The questioner : Shaykh, you mentioned that the term ghareeb in the terminology has three meanings.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Meanwhile, a scholar of hadith in India responded to al-Zayla'i in *Nasb al-Ra'yah* and said: that he used the word ghareeb for what has no basis, and that he was unique in this terminology, and that this is not the terminology of the hadith scholars.
The Shaykh : I...
The questioner : I did not mean that you are asking whether it is only al-Zayla'i's terminology, or whether you mean it is the terminology of the hadith scholars before al-Zayla'i?
The Shaykh : I did not say before or after, I said: the hadith scholars have three terminologies, and I explicitly stated that when al-Zayla'i uses this phrase, it is out of consideration for his scholars, perhaps you noticed this?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine, but I do not add my voice to that hadith scholar you are referring to to say: that al-Zayla'i is not a hadith scholar, and likewise I cannot say: that al-Nawawi is not a hadith scholar, and Ibn Hajar is not a hadith scholar, because they are from the later generations, no, all of these are hadith scholars, so if al-Zayla'i used this, it is correct that this is a specific usage, and that is why you found that I did not attribute this terminology to anyone else, while for the first and second terminology I attributed it to the scholars of hadith, some use it this way and some use it that way, so the reality is that what you are now quoting from that scholar does not correct me, because I am a transmitter and the scholars say: "The transmitter of disbelief is not a disbeliever" from one aspect, and from another aspect: I object to this Shaykh or scholar who explains from your words—and the responsibility is on the narrator—that he excluded al-Zayla'i from the group of hadith scholars, this I do not accept, al-Zayla'i is indeed a Hanafi jurist, but he excelled the majority of Hanafi jurists because he distinguished himself in the science of hadith like many other scholars in the other schools of jurisprudence.
The questioner : Shaykh, you mentioned that the term ghareeb in the terminology has three meanings.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Meanwhile, a scholar of hadith in India responded to al-Zayla'i in *Nasb al-Ra'yah* and said: that he used the word ghareeb for what has no basis, and that he was unique in this terminology, and that this is not the terminology of the hadith scholars.
The Shaykh : I...
The questioner : I did not mean that you are asking whether it is only al-Zayla'i's terminology, or whether you mean it is the terminology of the hadith scholars before al-Zayla'i?
The Shaykh : I did not say before or after, I said: the hadith scholars have three terminologies, and I explicitly stated that when al-Zayla'i uses this phrase, it is out of consideration for his scholars, perhaps you noticed this?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine, but I do not add my voice to that hadith scholar you are referring to to say: that al-Zayla'i is not a hadith scholar, and likewise I cannot say: that al-Nawawi is not a hadith scholar, and Ibn Hajar is not a hadith scholar, because they are from the later generations, no, all of these are hadith scholars, so if al-Zayla'i used this, it is correct that this is a specific usage, and that is why you found that I did not attribute this terminology to anyone else, while for the first and second terminology I attributed it to the scholars of hadith, some use it this way and some use it that way, so the reality is that what you are now quoting from that scholar does not correct me, because I am a transmitter and the scholars say: "The transmitter of disbelief is not a disbeliever" from one aspect, and from another aspect: I object to this Shaykh or scholar who explains from your words—and the responsibility is on the narrator—that he excluded al-Zayla'i from the group of hadith scholars, this I do not accept, al-Zayla'i is indeed a Hanafi jurist, but he excelled the majority of Hanafi jurists because he distinguished himself in the science of hadith like many other scholars in the other schools of jurisprudence.