Examples of reasons for which criticism is not accepted: "From the things that destroy dignity"
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The Shaykh : As was reported from some of the early hadith scholars, it was said to him: "Why do you not narrate from so-and-so? He said: Because I saw him riding a mule one day." Perhaps many of you do not know what a mule is!
It is a horse of a size different from the Arabian horse that you all know; it is shorter in stature and fuller in body. Also, there is something of arrogance in its gait, which causes the one called a horse to be narrowed down by this arrogance. This existed among us until recently in Syria, before the use of cars became widespread. Some tax collectors for money, such as the Franks and the like, used to ride this type. You would see this rider on the mule walking like this, strutting. He does not intend it, but the nature of this mule is that it makes the rider on it strut because of its own arrogance. The point is: his answer was that he saw him riding a mule. This has no relation to criticism, because criticism is only established by one of two things: either an attack on his truthfulness, or an attack on his precision and memorization. As for the fact that he was riding a mule, we now find the great scholars riding luxurious cars, for example, and this is not considered a criticism or an attack on their justice or their narration.
Similarly, it was reported from some of them: "Why do you not narrate from so-and-so? He said: I heard a musical instrument from his house." It is possible that the sound he heard was first from his neighbor and not from his house. You know that when houses are adjacent to one another, it is not easy to judge that this sound came from this house or that one. In such a suspicion, criticism and attack are not appropriate. It may be that the sound was actually coming from the same house, but from someone over whom he has no control, such as one of his rebellious sons who are outside his obedience. He is between expelling him and keeping him in his house with his faults, as it came in some hadiths. It may be that the sound was actually from the house of the hadith scholar who was criticized because of the sound of the instrument coming from his house, but he has a perspective on that and has his own independent legal reasoning. Many fathers are afflicted with some sons who, for example, do not stay on the straight path. Let us give a realistic example today:
Many young people today are influenced by Western civilization, so they shave their beards. One boy grows up in a noble house, a righteous man and a righteous mother, but the boy, because of his mixing with the society influenced by the sinful Western customs, shaves his beard. His father advises him time after time and round after round, and the advice does not benefit him. So what does this father do?!
He is between two things:
Either he expels him from his house, or he keeps him in his house with his faults and his errors, as it is said, hoping that he may guide himself in the future. It is possible that such a boy uses the oud or any of the musical instruments without the consent of that father. So, merely hearing that hadith criticizer such a sound from such a narrator, who is just and a precise memorizer, but he heard a musical instrument from him, it is not permissible to criticize him for such a reason.
It is a horse of a size different from the Arabian horse that you all know; it is shorter in stature and fuller in body. Also, there is something of arrogance in its gait, which causes the one called a horse to be narrowed down by this arrogance. This existed among us until recently in Syria, before the use of cars became widespread. Some tax collectors for money, such as the Franks and the like, used to ride this type. You would see this rider on the mule walking like this, strutting. He does not intend it, but the nature of this mule is that it makes the rider on it strut because of its own arrogance. The point is: his answer was that he saw him riding a mule. This has no relation to criticism, because criticism is only established by one of two things: either an attack on his truthfulness, or an attack on his precision and memorization. As for the fact that he was riding a mule, we now find the great scholars riding luxurious cars, for example, and this is not considered a criticism or an attack on their justice or their narration.
Similarly, it was reported from some of them: "Why do you not narrate from so-and-so? He said: I heard a musical instrument from his house." It is possible that the sound he heard was first from his neighbor and not from his house. You know that when houses are adjacent to one another, it is not easy to judge that this sound came from this house or that one. In such a suspicion, criticism and attack are not appropriate. It may be that the sound was actually coming from the same house, but from someone over whom he has no control, such as one of his rebellious sons who are outside his obedience. He is between expelling him and keeping him in his house with his faults, as it came in some hadiths. It may be that the sound was actually from the house of the hadith scholar who was criticized because of the sound of the instrument coming from his house, but he has a perspective on that and has his own independent legal reasoning. Many fathers are afflicted with some sons who, for example, do not stay on the straight path. Let us give a realistic example today:
Many young people today are influenced by Western civilization, so they shave their beards. One boy grows up in a noble house, a righteous man and a righteous mother, but the boy, because of his mixing with the society influenced by the sinful Western customs, shaves his beard. His father advises him time after time and round after round, and the advice does not benefit him. So what does this father do?!
He is between two things:
Either he expels him from his house, or he keeps him in his house with his faults and his errors, as it is said, hoping that he may guide himself in the future. It is possible that such a boy uses the oud or any of the musical instruments without the consent of that father. So, merely hearing that hadith criticizer such a sound from such a narrator, who is just and a precise memorizer, but he heard a musical instrument from him, it is not permissible to criticize him for such a reason.