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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Shaykh mentioned the way to reconcile the hadith prohibiting walking between graves in sandals with what is authentic in al-Bukhari from the hadith of Anas, in which it says

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The Shaykh : They say, and perhaps the most correct is for us to say that they claim this hadith is contradicted by one that is more authentic. This is correct, meaning that it is more authentic, but there is no contradiction. What is this more authentic hadith that some claim contradicts that authentic hadith? It is the hadith of Anas ibn Malik in "Sahih al-Bukhari," in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
When the people depart from burying the dead, he hears the clatter of their sandals as they turn away from him إذا انصرف الناس من دفن الميت وإنَّه لَيسمَعُ قرع نعالهم وهم عنه مدبرون
Our answer to this claim is that this hadith is undoubtedly, as we said earlier, authentic, indeed more authentic than the hadith of the two women of Saba, but there is absolutely no contradiction between them. It is not permissible for us to dismiss the authentic hadith.
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh- And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah - It is not permissible for us to dismiss the authentic hadith in favor of the more authentic one and say that we give no weight to this authentic hadith because it is contradicted by the more authentic one. This is an error. It is sufficient that each of the two contradictory hadiths falls within the category of acceptable hadith. One of the categories of acceptable hadith is the hasan hadith, even if it is hasan for other reasons. Therefore, a student of knowledge should not, when he sees a hadith in "Sahih al-Bukhari," for example, that contradicts a hadith in "al-Musnad" or in one of the known Sunan, say that this is more authentic than that, and take the more authentic one and be done with the authentic one. This is ignorance. Rather, if both fall within the category of acceptable, then it is obligatory to reconcile the two hadiths by one of the many ways of reconciliation. And as I said earlier, I am not now in a position to mention even some of these ways, but it must be clarified that there is no contradiction here between these two hadiths: the hadith of the two women of Saba and the hadith:
He hears the clatter of their sandals as they turn away from him وإنه لَيسمَعُ قرع نعالهم وهم عنه مدبرون
First, the hadith of the two women of Saba is a legislative ruling, where it said:
Take off your sandals اخلَعْ نعليك
This is a command, and the least that this command implies is recommendation. As for the second, more authentic hadith, the hadith of Anas, it is not a legislative ruling but rather a report. Not everything reported by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) means that it is a permissible command, let alone that it is recommended or more than that. It is not merely a report. Therefore, what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) reported must be weighed against other pieces of evidence from the Shari'ah, and this reported matter must be examined by the evidence of the Shari'ah. If the evidence of the Shari'ah indicates that this reported matter is permissible, we say it is permissible; or if it is disliked, we say it is disliked; or if it is forbidden, we say it is forbidden. But the mere fact that he reported it does not give us a ruling, because it is a report.
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