The author says, and he referred the discussion of them to the tracing of the hadiths in the book "The Four Terms" by Mawdudi?
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The questioner : Here, O Shaykh, the author says, and he referred the discussion of them to the tracing of the hadiths in the book "The Four Terms" by Mawdudi?
The Shaykh : This is what I intended to add as a correction to what I missed. Mawdudi's terms were printed in a first edition that had tracing, but then this book was reprinted, unfortunately, in some editions—perhaps the most common ones—without this tracing. Therefore, this author or others stopped at these editions that... lack our tracing... The edition in which I had traced the hadiths of the book was printed in Damascus. If the author had said, for example, "I did not find the tracing of this hadith in this book, [title]... such-and-such edition," that would have been a more precise expression than this generalization. Is there anything else?
The questioner : There is also a second question; hadith number 607... he mentioned that he attributed it to Imam Ahmad... this is the Mawdudi in question.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Now I am speaking about Mawdudi's book. As for his observation, it is in its proper place, but his assertion that the hadith does not exist in "Musnad Ahmad" falls under the first point of discussion. It is possible that it is correct and that his attribution of it was a mistake, and it is possible that this is... My confirmation of one or the other is not possible, and we do not have the references that would allow us to be certain of my mistake or his mistake. This should be reviewed in the books that trace hadiths with precision or point to their wording in... the lexicon in "Index of Hadith Wording" and "Key to the Treasures of the Sunnah" and the like. This relates to me personally; I have a book I call "Lexicon of Hadith," which covers... arranged alphabetically, I call it "Lexicon of Hadith." Most of the material in this lexicon is from the manuscripts of the Zahiriyyah, and there is often additional tracing on the sources I mentioned from the Zahiriyyah manuscripts. So, adding new tracings from printed books; both this and that are what I should refer to in order to correct myself and correct others.
The Shaykh : This is what I intended to add as a correction to what I missed. Mawdudi's terms were printed in a first edition that had tracing, but then this book was reprinted, unfortunately, in some editions—perhaps the most common ones—without this tracing. Therefore, this author or others stopped at these editions that... lack our tracing... The edition in which I had traced the hadiths of the book was printed in Damascus. If the author had said, for example, "I did not find the tracing of this hadith in this book, [title]... such-and-such edition," that would have been a more precise expression than this generalization. Is there anything else?
The questioner : There is also a second question; hadith number 607... he mentioned that he attributed it to Imam Ahmad... this is the Mawdudi in question.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Now I am speaking about Mawdudi's book. As for his observation, it is in its proper place, but his assertion that the hadith does not exist in "Musnad Ahmad" falls under the first point of discussion. It is possible that it is correct and that his attribution of it was a mistake, and it is possible that this is... My confirmation of one or the other is not possible, and we do not have the references that would allow us to be certain of my mistake or his mistake. This should be reviewed in the books that trace hadiths with precision or point to their wording in... the lexicon in "Index of Hadith Wording" and "Key to the Treasures of the Sunnah" and the like. This relates to me personally; I have a book I call "Lexicon of Hadith," which covers... arranged alphabetically, I call it "Lexicon of Hadith." Most of the material in this lexicon is from the manuscripts of the Zahiriyyah, and there is often additional tracing on the sources I mentioned from the Zahiriyyah manuscripts. So, adding new tracings from printed books; both this and that are what I should refer to in order to correct myself and correct others.
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