A man inserts Western annotations into the Shaykh's books, and the Shaykh's comment on that?
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The questioner : In "Mukhtasar al-'Uluw," you stated that there are three indicators of metaphor that necessitate departing from the literal meaning:
- The rational, such as His saying - the Exalted:[Yusuf 12:82] meaning: their people were with them, and from this: [Al-Isra 17:24].
- The second: the superlative, such as:[Ghafir 40:36] meaning: order the one who builds, because such a person is known not to build.
- The third: such as: for it is evidence that Allah is not the light. The scholars said: And the sign of a false call is its being devoid of any of these indicators, so look to see the truth upon creation ... , is this annotation yours or ... ?
The Shaykh: You must know before anything else that ... the incident occurred between me and them years ago.
Another questioner: O Allah ... .
The Shaykh : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh: And therefore he annotates my books without my permission, with what his knowledge suggests to him, and perhaps it is better to say his ignorance. This annotation is from him and not from me, and I do not approve of this speech.
The questioner: ... and is it from you ... ?
The Shaykh: No, no, it is not from me. I said in answer to this question that it is not from me, and I do not approve of this speech.
The questioner: This is what I preferred for the brothers, if they objected, so I said: Then I know that ... adds things from himself ... .
The Shaykh: One of the most dangerous additions is that he came to the hadith:Sahih al-Bukhari 6147, the hadith is in "al-Sahihayn," and it is mentioned in "Sahih al-Jami'." So the man - may Allah guide him - added to this first part the second part: "And every pleasure is inevitably transient."
The questioner : In the main text, Shaykh?
The Shaykh: It is in the text, the details come to you, and he placed it in brackets like this in the text itself, and wrote an annotation like this annotation, saying: Quoted from "Diwan Labid," page such-and-such.
The questioner : ... the hadith.
The Shaykh: And usually, as I saw here in this book, when he places ... he attributes it to himself, either by reference or explicitly. Reference is Zay, explicit is Zuhayr. In this annotation, he did not put Zuhayr, he did not put anything. In another annotation here in the same book, in Zuhayr, ... he returns to "Sahih al-Jami'" - also - he did not put Zuhayr or Zay. This is in the new edition. The one who reads this annotation says this is the work of al-Albani because he is the author, but the truth is this addition is from him. And therefore he corrupted many of my books with his annotations. And this addition is very serious; because the errors accumulated with this single addition. First, the greatest and most dangerous of them is lying against the Messenger of Allah, because the hadith is in all the books of the Sunnah.
- The rational, such as His saying - the Exalted:
And ask the city in which we were and the caravan in which we came
وسئل القرية التي كنا فيها والعير التي أقبلنا فيهاAnd lower to them the wing of humility
واخفض لهما جناح الذل- The second: the superlative, such as:
O Haman, construct for me a tower
يا هامان ابن لي صرحًا- The third: such as:
The parable of His light
مَثَلُ نورهThe Shaykh: You must know before anything else that ... the incident occurred between me and them years ago.
Another questioner: O Allah ... .
The Shaykh : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh: And therefore he annotates my books without my permission, with what his knowledge suggests to him, and perhaps it is better to say his ignorance. This annotation is from him and not from me, and I do not approve of this speech.
The questioner: ... and is it from you ... ?
The Shaykh: No, no, it is not from me. I said in answer to this question that it is not from me, and I do not approve of this speech.
The questioner: This is what I preferred for the brothers, if they objected, so I said: Then I know that ... adds things from himself ... .
The Shaykh: One of the most dangerous additions is that he came to the hadith:
The most true words said by a poet were the words of Labid. He said, i.e. 'Verily, everything except Allah is perishable
أصدق كلمة قالها الشاعر كلمة لبيد : ألا كل شيء ما خلا الله باطلThe questioner : In the main text, Shaykh?
The Shaykh: It is in the text, the details come to you, and he placed it in brackets like this in the text itself, and wrote an annotation like this annotation, saying: Quoted from "Diwan Labid," page such-and-such.
The questioner : ... the hadith.
The Shaykh: And usually, as I saw here in this book, when he places ... he attributes it to himself, either by reference or explicitly. Reference is Zay, explicit is Zuhayr. In this annotation, he did not put Zuhayr, he did not put anything. In another annotation here in the same book, in Zuhayr, ... he returns to "Sahih al-Jami'" - also - he did not put Zuhayr or Zay. This is in the new edition. The one who reads this annotation says this is the work of al-Albani because he is the author, but the truth is this addition is from him. And therefore he corrupted many of my books with his annotations. And this addition is very serious; because the errors accumulated with this single addition. First, the greatest and most dangerous of them is lying against the Messenger of Allah, because the hadith is in all the books of the Sunnah.
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