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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The context of a hadith in the form of "it is reported" among the common people gives the illusion that the hadith is authentic

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The Shaykh : Imagine with me that a preacher comes with a hadith that he knows is a weak hadith, and he says: "It is reported from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said so and so." Do you think any of the attendees understands from his saying "it is reported" that this is a weak hadith? No one does. In fact, if the hadith contains a miracle or something that moves people's hearts, you would hear the commotion of the people in the mosque: "Allahu Akbar! What Allah willed!" And the hadith? It is a weak hadith!
So here is the supreme wisdom, if the expression is correct, the wisdom that 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Speak to people according to the capacity of their minds; do you want Allah and His Messenger to be denied?!" "Speak to people according to the capacity of their minds." So this crowd that attends the mosque for Friday prayer or the 'Id prayer or similar gatherings does not understand when the hadith scholar says in a weak hadith "it is reported from the Messenger of Allah." So what is obligatory?
The obligatory is one of two things: either to completely refrain from mentioning weak hadiths in public gatherings, and this is what I advise myself and everyone who accepts my advice, or if it is absolutely necessary to quote the hadith, he should say: "It is reported from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with a weak chain, or with a chain that is not authentic." I guarantee that any preacher who accepts this advice will feel after a few days that there is no benefit in mentioning the hadith while explicitly stating that it is weak; because the people—even those who do not know—will say: "Since the hadith is weak, why is this shaykh occupying our minds with it?" And he will be forced to return to my first advice: that the preacher, teacher, orator, and lecturer should refrain from quoting any weak hadith, even if he explicitly states that it is weak, on the basis of: "Speak to people according to the capacity of their minds; do you want Allah and His Messenger to be denied?!" This is a hadith stopping at 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, narrated by Imam al-Bukhari at the beginning of his "Sahih" in the Book of Knowledge, which follows the Book of Faith, with his connected chain to 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). So, in one sense, it is a marfu' hadith, and in another sense, it is a mawquf hadith. And in this way, students of the people of knowledge can understand the terminology of the scholars, but people must be spoken to and addressed in what they understand.
Other than that?
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