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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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(Rise up to your master) — Is it used as evidence for the permissibility of standing for a person entering?

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The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : The brother is asking about the hadith:
Rise for your master قوموا لسيِّدكم
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The hadith:
Rise for your master قوموا لسيِّدكم
is one in which the majority of people err, both in its narration and consequently in its implication. The hadith is actually worded:
Stand up to your master قوموا إلى سيِّدكم
, and not: "Rise up for your master." Therefore, when the hadith was distorted in the minds of the masses, their jurisprudence was distorted along with it. "Rise up for your master" could be interpreted as rising to honor or respect him, but
Stand up to your master قوموا إلى سيِّدكم
cannot be interpreted in this way; because the meaning of
Stand up to your master قوموا إلى سيِّدكم
is: "Rise up and go to him." This hadith warrants a specific session to comment on it and clarify that it has no connection to the standing that is disliked in the Shari'ah.
But in brief: there is a narration, as it is said today, that puts the dots on the letters and removes the ambiguity:
Rise to your Sayyid and lower him قوموا إلى سيِّدكم فأنزلوه
Sahih Ibn Hibban 63:176
. So the command here is not for the sake of this standing, but rather to help this noble man, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, because he was wounded. He ordered his followers and companions to rise to him and help him dismount from his mount. Look at how much people err when they first distort the text of al-Bukhari, which is:
Stand up to your master قوموا إلى سيِّدكم
, changing it to "Rise up for your master." Then look at what ignorance does to the methods of hadith and their wordings, which help in understanding the hadith correctly. The addition we mentioned,
So, dismount him فأنزلوه
, is in the Musnad of Imam Ahmad with a strong chain, as al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar says in Fath al-Bari.
Source www.al-albany.com

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