A question regarding a letter

The questioner : ... A noble brother, I mean ... a letter reached me from some of the brothers, a new writer. Its title is "Refuting the Claim Regarding the Place of I'tikaf."

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Did it reach you?

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner : It did not reach you. In it, he responds to your concise research, I mean, on standing in prayer in Ramadan.

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.

The questioner : So he refuted it and raised objections to the hadith, and he spoke and such, and I don't know what else. By the grace of Allah, your second letter on i'tikaf is a response to the six objections that he himself raised, but he is not standing on the letter regarding i'tikaf.

The Shaykh : What is this letter?

The questioner : "Al-Insaf fi Ahkam al-I'tikaf" (The Fairness in the Rulings of I'tikaf). I am not standing on it, so I intend to send him a private letter. I will tell him that it is preferable to address these matters, especially since you are taking on Shaykh Nasser, and the matter is not easy.

The Shaykh : I mean, in what he wrote, does he end up by weakening the hadith?

The questioner : Of course, of course. He bases it on the defects of the hadith, the hesitation. How can we be certain about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with doubt, and that the hadith was disrupted, once by stopping (mawquf) and once by raising (marfu'), and he is not standing on the Isma'ili route. Of course, I mean, things, glory be to Allah, are strange. Although it is strange that he is standing on al-Dhahabi's authentication in al-Sirah ... he is standing on it and he refutes it.

The Shaykh: Perfect.

The questioner : This is also another calamity.