Some ask: Why do we waste our time extracting weak hadiths from authentic hadiths?

The questioner : A brother asks, saying: Some people claim and say: Why do we waste our time extracting authentic hadiths from weak hadiths?

The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!

The questioner : And we say: This is an authentic hadith and this is a weak hadith, is it not better that we dedicate our time to jihad in the path of Allah?

The Shaykh : We regret that there are people who say: Engaging in distinguishing the authentic from the weak is a waste of time, first of all, and then he says: Is it not better that we work for jihad in the path of Allah - Mighty and Majestic?
We said earlier in our previous speech: That the Muslims, in the time they agreed that Islam is the Book and the Sunnah; we clarified that this is not sufficient, and it is necessary to add to that the methodology; the methodology of the righteous Salaf, but in my speech I emphasized a matter for something like this; so that this question does not come back to us, we said: The Book and the Sunnah and the authentic Sunnah, why do we keep going around the authentic Sunnah? I - without blame - sometimes need to state what some people may not like me to state, I say - regretfully - that this question came from a person who did not understand what we said earlier; that Islam is the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him -, and that Islam cannot be understood except through the explanation of the Messenger mentioned in the Qur'an, and we said more than once that this explanation is the Sunnah of the Messenger - peace be upon him -, so if we want to understand the words of Allah, we understand them with a hadith we do not know if it is authentic from the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him -? The answer is obvious: No, I must know that this hadith is authentic, so that it is permissible for us to interpret the words of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - with it, and in other words we say to the questioner: We waste our time in prayer; is this a waste? No person with an atom of intellect says that this is a waste of what? Time, but this is utilizing time with what we are tasked with, because we draw near to Allah - Mighty and Majestic - with this prayer which is the realization of our servitude to Allah - Mighty and Majestic -, and He said: .
And the scholars when they waste their time - in the expression of thisThe questioner : ! - in reading books of tafsir, and books of hadith, and books of fiqh, who says: That these people waste their time in what does not benefit them?! Rather in what is not obligatory upon them?!
And Allah - Mighty and Majestic - has praised the scholars with what is known; , so here we are engaged in distinguishing the authentic from the weak, and we waste time behind that, to realize a principle of the principles of Islam; which is the saying of the Messenger - peace be upon him -: , and he said in the authentic hadith in Muslim: , so will the one who engages in distinguishing the authentic hadith from the weak from the fabricated waste his time while he advises the Muslim people, and saves them from falling into lying about the Prophet - peace and blessings be upon him -? May Allah forgive!
As for why we do not engage in jihad? This is a very superficial question; because jihad requires massive preparations, the first of which is strong faith, and the second is moral and material preparation, and this cannot be realized except by the Book and the Sunnah, and the Sunnah cannot be known except by the way of this which he called wasting time behind it, distinguishing the authentic hadith from the weak, and I say again: May Allah forgive!