What is your opinion of those who say that Ibn Abi Hatim’s book *al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil* is a copy of al-Bukhari’s *al-Tarikh al-Kabir*?
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The questioner: Our Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, your statement leads us into the chapter of refuting the claim mentioned in books of terminology or books of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil that Ibn Abi Hatim’s book is a copy of al-Bukhari’s book; so your statement means refuting this idea from its foundation.
The Shaykh: Without a doubt, this is injustice.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: This is without a doubt injustice.
The questioner : What Allah willed!
The Shaykh: But he is without a doubt, as he is.
The questioner: He benefited.
The Shaykh: Yes, may Allah bless you, as is the nature of the later scholar with the earlier one, he benefits.
The questioner: The predecessor and the successor.
The Shaykh: And we mean the honor belongs to these people, but this does not mean it is an exact copy, for Ibn Abi Hatim, without a doubt, benefited the science of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil with a great deal of knowledge that cannot be derived from al-Bukhari’s histories, except that we exclude this middle one which we have not yet known, "al-Bukhari’s Middle History."
The Shaykh: Without a doubt, this is injustice.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: This is without a doubt injustice.
The questioner : What Allah willed!
The Shaykh: But he is without a doubt, as he is.
The questioner: He benefited.
The Shaykh: Yes, may Allah bless you, as is the nature of the later scholar with the earlier one, he benefits.
The questioner: The predecessor and the successor.
The Shaykh: And we mean the honor belongs to these people, but this does not mean it is an exact copy, for Ibn Abi Hatim, without a doubt, benefited the science of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil with a great deal of knowledge that cannot be derived from al-Bukhari’s histories, except that we exclude this middle one which we have not yet known, "al-Bukhari’s Middle History."
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