Is the book "Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence?"
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The questioner: His EminenceThe Shaykh- May Allah preserve you - Is the book "Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence?" correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? Because some preachers claim that the book is not among his works, and may Allah reward you with good?
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner: Excuse me, Shaykh, he is asking about al-Ma'sumi's book.
The Shaykh: Al-Ma'sumi?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Repeat, repeat.
The questioner: He says: Is the book "Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence?" correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? Because some preachers claim that the book is not among his works?
The Shaykh: That the book is not among al-Ma'sumi's works?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: There is no doubt that this book is the work ofThe Shaykh : al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him). The phrasing in the question that he met me is incorrect, because in reality, it was I who met him. He was residing in Makkah and was one of the distinguished Bukhari scholars who emigrated from the oppression of the Russian communists... The communists established communism as their creed, so he himself sought refuge and emigrated to Makkah, residing there. When I... for the first time, and I had heard of him and looked into some of his works, which I found appealing, it became clear to me that he was upon this methodology to which we call people: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and what our righteous predecessors were upon. So I visited him at his home, and he gifted me some treatises, including this one. It is still with me, bearing his handwriting as a gift to Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. We saw it as a means of publishing the Salafi da'wah in Damascus to print this treatise under a new title, not the author's title; because the author used to call this treatise "The Sultan's Gift to the Land of Japan."
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: They call it the Land of Japan.
The Shaykh: He calls it the Land of Japan; so we found it best to place the title and leave the treatise from its beginning to its end as it is. Some fanatical doctors there, devoted to blind following and rigidity, responded to this treatise with what we are not permitted to delve into now. Among the things mentioned there is that this treatise was falsely attributed to this al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him), and that it was written by some Damascenes. This is from... attributing to others. The treatise, as I told you, is with me in the handwriting and signature of this man; so the treatise is correctly attributed to Ibn al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him), and it is not the work of anyone else except for the title only.
Yes.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner: Excuse me, Shaykh, he is asking about al-Ma'sumi's book.
The Shaykh: Al-Ma'sumi?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Repeat, repeat.
The questioner: He says: Is the book "Is the Muslim Obligated to Follow a Specific School of Jurisprudence?" correctly attributed to its author, as the book's presenter claimed, and did the author meet you in the Noble Makkah? Because some preachers claim that the book is not among his works?
The Shaykh: That the book is not among al-Ma'sumi's works?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: There is no doubt that this book is the work ofThe Shaykh : al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him). The phrasing in the question that he met me is incorrect, because in reality, it was I who met him. He was residing in Makkah and was one of the distinguished Bukhari scholars who emigrated from the oppression of the Russian communists... The communists established communism as their creed, so he himself sought refuge and emigrated to Makkah, residing there. When I... for the first time, and I had heard of him and looked into some of his works, which I found appealing, it became clear to me that he was upon this methodology to which we call people: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and what our righteous predecessors were upon. So I visited him at his home, and he gifted me some treatises, including this one. It is still with me, bearing his handwriting as a gift to Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. We saw it as a means of publishing the Salafi da'wah in Damascus to print this treatise under a new title, not the author's title; because the author used to call this treatise "The Sultan's Gift to the Land of Japan."
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: They call it the Land of Japan.
The Shaykh: He calls it the Land of Japan; so we found it best to place the title and leave the treatise from its beginning to its end as it is. Some fanatical doctors there, devoted to blind following and rigidity, responded to this treatise with what we are not permitted to delve into now. Among the things mentioned there is that this treatise was falsely attributed to this al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him), and that it was written by some Damascenes. This is from... attributing to others. The treatise, as I told you, is with me in the handwriting and signature of this man; so the treatise is correctly attributed to Ibn al-Ma'sumi (may Allah have mercy on him), and it is not the work of anyone else except for the title only.
Yes.
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