Did you have any business dealings with your father after you left his home?
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The questioner : My teacher, did you and your father deal with each other in business, meaning exchanging hours or something like that?
The Shaykh : No, there was nothing. I got married through my own efforts. I proposed for a wife, and my father did not intervene, did not visit me, did not congratulate me, and did not bless me. He would sometimes come to the shop but not enter it. And if he said a word, it was perhaps an expiation for the sectarian hostility that came from him. He said to me once: "I do not deny that I benefited from you". I was his young son, and I know well from him that he benefited, because he would go to the mosques that have graves to seek blessing from them, like the common scholars. So I used to say to him: This, my father, is not permissible, and this has such and such issues, and so on. So, then, the matter of authentic and weak hadith is not in this vein; all the jurists... so he did indeed benefit. But his age and his social status among the Arnauts did not allow him the space to accept his son's deviation in the eyes of the public. This is part of the story of the beginning of my pursuit of knowledge and then my independence in it. The point is that *Al-Manar* magazine is what opened the way for me to work in the science of hadith.
The Shaykh : No, there was nothing. I got married through my own efforts. I proposed for a wife, and my father did not intervene, did not visit me, did not congratulate me, and did not bless me. He would sometimes come to the shop but not enter it. And if he said a word, it was perhaps an expiation for the sectarian hostility that came from him. He said to me once: "I do not deny that I benefited from you". I was his young son, and I know well from him that he benefited, because he would go to the mosques that have graves to seek blessing from them, like the common scholars. So I used to say to him: This, my father, is not permissible, and this has such and such issues, and so on. So, then, the matter of authentic and weak hadith is not in this vein; all the jurists... so he did indeed benefit. But his age and his social status among the Arnauts did not allow him the space to accept his son's deviation in the eyes of the public. This is part of the story of the beginning of my pursuit of knowledge and then my independence in it. The point is that *Al-Manar* magazine is what opened the way for me to work in the science of hadith.