What is your advice to us, students of knowledge, regarding collecting the hadiths narrated about the Khawarij?
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The questioner : Well, our Shaykh, we claim to be attached to knowledge and we want to call ourselves students of knowledge. We are collecting the hadiths narrated about the Khawarij. What is your advice to us in this matter?
The Shaykh : That you ask the people of knowledge.
The questioner : We asked you.
The Shaykh : And I have answered you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That you do not enter into the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
The questioner : I mean the hadiths, the hadiths narrated according to al-Bukhari’s understanding.
The Shaykh : I have answered you.
The questioner : We do not collect them for the sake of those people.
The Shaykh : Rather, for the sake of the absent ones who have passed away.
The questioner : Meaning, as a warning for those who come after.
The Shaykh : Yes, leave it to the people of knowledge.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The Shaykh : That you ask the people of knowledge.
The questioner : We asked you.
The Shaykh : And I have answered you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That you do not enter into the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
The questioner : I mean the hadiths, the hadiths narrated according to al-Bukhari’s understanding.
The Shaykh : I have answered you.
The questioner : We do not collect them for the sake of those people.
The Shaykh : Rather, for the sake of the absent ones who have passed away.
The questioner : Meaning, as a warning for those who come after.
The Shaykh : Yes, leave it to the people of knowledge.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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