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Explanation that the hadith: (And as for Paradise, Allah will create for it a people to dwell therein) was inverted by some narrators, who said: (And as for the Fire...

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The Shaykh : He brings an example of a hadith that was inverted by some narrators, and this is a correct example; where he said: "Just as the hadith was inverted for some of them:
The people will be thrown into Hell لا يزال يُلقي في النار
Sahih al-Bukhari 7384
- meaning the people of the Fire, He throws them into the Fire -
it will say thrice, 'Is there any more فتقول : هل من مزيد ؟
Sahih al-Bukhari 7449
until he said:
And as for Paradise; Allah will create for it a people to dwell therein وأما الجنة ؛ فينشئ الله لها خلقًا يُسكنهم إيَّاها
, so he said - meaning the narrator for whom the hadith was inverted; he replaced Paradise with the Fire - he said:
And as for the Fire; Allah will create for it a people to put them therein وأما النار ؛ فينشئ الله لها خلقًا يُدخلهم إيَّاها
." So this wording, the word "Fire," was inverted for the narrator; there is no doubt about this.
In summary: the occurrence of inversion in some hadiths cannot be denied, but it does not follow from the fact that a particular hadith was inverted that every hadith in the world was inverted for the narrator. Inversion must be established by conclusive proof; such as the example here:
As for Paradise; Allah will create for it another people أما الجنة ؛ فينشئ الله لها خلقًا آخر
; this is from the favor of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - upon His servants. As for Him creating a people to torment them in the Fire without cause; this contradicts the divine justice known in the decisive texts of the Shari'ah, in addition to the fact that this narrator contradicted the trustworthy narrators who narrated the hadith correctly, where they said:
And as for Paradise وأما الجنة
.
I will bring another example where a person feels the inversion without studying the hadiths; the hadith that you all know, which is in "the two Sahihs" from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah - also - he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
There are seven whom Allah will shade in His shade on the day on which there is no shade except His shade سبعة يظلُّهم الله تحت ظلِّه يوم لا ظلَّ إلا ظلُّه
Muwatta Malik 51:14
the end of it is:
and a man who gives charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given ورجلٌ تصدَّق بيمينه فأخفاها حتى لا تعلمَ شماله ما أنفقَتْ يمينه
Bulugh al-Maram 4:33
, this is how the hadith is in "Sahih al-Bukhari" and others, and also in "Sahih Muslim," except that the last sentence was inverted for some narrators, who said:
And a man who gives charity with his left hand so that his right hand does not know what his left hand has spent ورجل تصدَّق بشماله حتى لا تعلمَ يمنيه ما أنفقت شماله
, this is also an example of an inverted hadith; we have no doubt about its inversion.
Source www.al-albany.com

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