The Weakness of the Hadith: “People will soon ride their camels seeking knowledge, and they will not find anyone more knowledgeable than the scholar of Madinah.”
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The questioner : ... I have a question?
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Or rather, it is an inquiry from you.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : This book is *Al-Tankil*.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : With your verification.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And here, on page three hundred and eighty-five of the book itself, at the hadith:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2680Da'if (Darussalam), you commented and said: “I said: This hadith was narrated by al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim, and they graded it authentic, but there is a consideration regarding it, which I explained in my commentary on *Al-Ahkam* by 'Abd al-Haqq al-Isbili, hadith number seventy-six, and I mentioned two corroborating narrations for it there.” The question is: you graded the hadith as weak in *Da'if al-Jami'* and in *Al-Mishkat*, the old edition and the first verification, and you referred to the later number in *Al-Sahihah*, and here you mentioned that the hadith has a corroborating narration there in your verification of the book *Al-Ahkam*.
The Shaykh : *Al-Ahkam*, yes.
The questioner : What is the grade of this corroborating narration? Does it strengthen the hadith?
The Shaykh : If it strengthened it, we would not have detailed its weakness.
The questioner : So that corroborating narration does not increase the strength of the hadith?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : It is weak, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Or rather, it is an inquiry from you.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : This book is *Al-Tankil*.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : With your verification.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And here, on page three hundred and eighty-five of the book itself, at the hadith:
It shall soon be that people are beating the livers of camels (meaning that they are hastening and traveling upon them) seeking knowledge. But they will not find anyone more knowledgeable than a scholar of Al-Madinah.
يوشك أن يضرب الناس أكباد الإبل يطلبون العلم ؛ فلا يجدون أعلم من عالم المدينةThe Shaykh : *Al-Ahkam*, yes.
The questioner : What is the grade of this corroborating narration? Does it strengthen the hadith?
The Shaykh : If it strengthened it, we would not have detailed its weakness.
The questioner : So that corroborating narration does not increase the strength of the hadith?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : It is weak, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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