How did we know that in the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, which he attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (that my Ummah will come on the Day of Resurrection with white faces and white marks on their foreheads, hands, and feet from the traces of wudu, so whoever can extend it, let him do so), that it was an insertion by Abu Hurayrah and not an addition by a trustworthy narrator?
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The questioner : My Shaykh, regarding the insertion by a trustworthy narrator.
The Shaykh : Raise your voice.
The questioner : My Shaykh, how do we distinguish between an insertion by a trustworthy narrator and an addition by a trustworthy narrator, especially if the addition by a trustworthy narrator is in a single text that came through another route?
The Shaykh : Are all these things in a single text?
The questioner : The addition by a trustworthy narrator came through a single route, and the insertion by a trustworthy narrator... so how does that mean...
The Shaykh : Do you mean your statement contains several questions?
The questioner : No, it is just distinguishing between the insertion by a trustworthy narrator and the addition by a trustworthy narrator, especially if this addition...
The Shaykh : My brother, your question contains several questions. The insertion is one thing and the addition is another. So specify your question now in one thing?
The questioner : It is the distinction between them...
The Shaykh : Between them? I tell you, specify one question now. Ask about the addition and leave the insertion aside for now.
The questioner : I mean, how do they combine... the trustworthy narrator.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : May Allah reward you. I know the addition by a trustworthy narrator and I know the insertion, but what confuses me is the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, which he attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)Bulugh al-Maram 43 This is an insertion. So how did we know that this is an insertion by Abu Hurayrah and not an addition by a trustworthy narrator?
The Shaykh : How did we know?
The questioner : That it is an insertion by Abu Hurayrah and not...
The Shaykh : That is why I tell you, separate the issue. Is every addition by any trustworthy narrator accepted?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : When, then, is the addition accepted?
The questioner : When it is not contradictory to the trustworthy narrators.
The Shaykh : Okay, that is the answer.
The questioner : But what is not contradictory?
The Shaykh : How is it not contradictory?
The questioner : This addition was not contradictory to the narration except according to the view of Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him).
The Shaykh : Ah, now I understand. You mean by contradiction, for example, one says no and the other says yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, that is not contradiction. May Allah reward you. If ten narrators—I am giving an example now, meaning exaggerating—ten narrators narrated a hadith with ten words, and one trustworthy narrator added a word that established a ruling, is this contradictory to those in your opinion?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not contradictory. That is not what is meant by contradiction. Contradiction is that the trustworthy narrator narrates, as Imam al-Shafi'i says, what the trustworthy narrators did not narrate. The contradiction intended here is opposition. Let me give you an example now. Let me give you an example now, and this example, as they say, is exactly like our previous hadith regarding in terms of it not being mentioned in the discussion of prostration: is it on the knees or on the palms? Similarly, this example I will mention is not mentioned in the books of terminology as a witness to the anomalous hadith. The well-known hadith in "the two Sahihs" from the narration of Ibn Abbas that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said one day in a gathering of the Companions: The story is long, then he (peace be upon him) said: Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 911 One of the narrators in "Sahih Muslim" said: Sahih Muslim 220a Is this a contradictory addition?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is not contradictory.
The questioner : It is not contradictory.
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner : Because it is contradictory to the wording of.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : It is contradictory to the legal ruling regarding seeking ruqyah.
The Shaykh : The legal ruling is a second issue. The contradiction of the trustworthy narrator, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : Okay, this addition is contradictory to the trustworthy narrators who narrated "seek ruqyah."
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. You do not count my words. I am repeating your words.
The questioner: All right.
The Shaykh : In order for us to understand each other.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is there the contradiction I mentioned earlier here?
The questioner : You are telling me...
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : You are telling me that it is not contradictory according to your view.
The Shaykh : Yes, according to what we understood, that contradiction means opposition.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not contradiction in the sense that the trustworthy narrator mentioned something that the trustworthy narrators did not mention.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that not how we understood it?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Now here is an example where the trustworthy narrators did not mention.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This trustworthy narrator added to them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So then, this is, according to your view that we understood, an addition by a trustworthy narrator.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because it is not a contradictory opposition, but merely that he added.
The questioner : It became a slip in your speech. The addition the addition "seek ruqyah" became a slip in the Shaykh's hadith.
The Shaykh : "Seek ruqyah," "seek ruqyah," "seek ruqyah," the addition.
The questioner : "Seek ruqyah," yes.
The Shaykh : This Shaykh matters to the student, it does not matter, clear, my brother, or not?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, my Shaykh. But this addition in the hadith, this addition, the one who added it contradicted what the trustworthy narrators narrated. As for the hadith of Abu Hurayrah...
The Shaykh : My brother, according to your definition of addition, it did not contradict. So I hope we finish this point. The addition may contradict the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But it does not contradict the trustworthy narrators, in your expression.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I do not want you to accept this as a debate. I want it based on understanding.
The questioner : I understand your words, Shaykh...
The Shaykh : When the scholars of hadith say that the addition of a trustworthy narrator is accepted, and they say: the anomalous hadith, what do they mean by the anomalous hadith?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, is it the contradiction that you translated earlier?
The questioner : That is what I understood.
The Shaykh : No, that is wrong. That is wrong, my brother. They mentioned this on this occasion as an example of an addition by a trustworthy narrator that might be anomalous, so they refuted it with a supporting chain.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : When they discussed the anomalous hadith, they mentioned the hadith ofJami` at-Tirmidhi 675Sahih (Darussalam), and they mentioned an addition that was unique to him. It was said: Imam Malik in "al-Muwatta" , so this claim that this addition is anomalous was refuted by the fact that Malik did not have a unique chain for it.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So now, if Malik had a unique chain for it, would it be an addition according to your method, or according to our method, just an addition to the trustworthy narrators without there being a contradiction?
The questioner : According to my method, it is not a contradiction.
The Shaykh : Why? How is it not?
The questioner : I say that this...
The Shaykh : What is the anomalous hadith, my brother?
The questioner : ... The anomalous hadith. May Allah reward you with good. But these narrators may have mentioned something, which is the generalization of the hadith, but here it means a restriction. There it was generalized and here it is restricted.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit of all this talk?
The questioner : ... So that one can distinguish between the insertion and the addition.
The Shaykh : Twenty. I said ten, now I am saying twenty. Now I am saying a hundred trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without this addition. Did these people err or did they hit the mark regarding the trustworthy narrator who brought the addition?
The questioner : What is the addition we are discussing?
The Shaykh : Do not specify, may Allah guide you. What do you imagine? These hundred trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without this addition or that. We do not care about the example now. Did they err or did they hit the mark regarding the narration of the trustworthy narrator who brought the addition?
The questioner : If it is contradictory in the first place...
The Shaykh : Contradictory to what? Contradictory to what?
The questioner : To the trustworthy narrators.
Another questioner : What is the contradiction of the narrator who was unique? He brought an addition. May Allah reward you. These hundred narrated a narration without an addition.
The Shaykh : My Shaykh, you are very confused. Sometimes you speak with an opinion that contradicts my opinion, and sometimes you return to my opinion and say if it is contradictory.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : I am giving you an example. A hundred narrators from the trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without an addition.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : A hundred and one trustworthy narrator brought this addition. If you say this addition is an addition by a trustworthy narrator, it must be accepted. Does that mean the hundred narrators erred because they did not memorize the hadith completely? Is that so or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Okay, when is the addition accepted?
The Shaykh : Be patient. Are you fully convinced?
The questioner : Yes, I am convinced now.
The Shaykh : But I am afraid you will be taken by illusions. Why? And I am the cause. But I will not stand with you at the illusion. I gave an example now. A hundred. Let us take half of the hundred, fifty.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So this addition is an accepted addition by a trustworthy narrator.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Or is it rejected?
The questioner : Rejected.
The Shaykh : We took a quarter of the fifty, twenty-five. Like this, we arrived at two trustworthy narrators. So your statement in defining the accepted addition by a trustworthy narrator is not correct, because you required that there be a contradiction, and here there is no contradiction. All that is the case is that one trustworthy narrator added to the two trustworthy narrators.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : He added. It is possible that this addition, from the jurisprudential aspect, is accepted, and it is possible that it is rejected. This is a jurisprudential issue, as we said earlier, regarding the hadith of, for example, Abu Ishaq in the tashahhud.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This is a second issue. But our discussion now is: when is the addition by a trustworthy narrator accepted? It is said: the trustworthy narrator added to a trustworthy narrator like him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : His addition is accepted. But if he added to someone who is more memorizing than him or more numerous than him, his addition is anomalous. And this is the established rule.
The Shaykh : Raise your voice.
The questioner : My Shaykh, how do we distinguish between an insertion by a trustworthy narrator and an addition by a trustworthy narrator, especially if the addition by a trustworthy narrator is in a single text that came through another route?
The Shaykh : Are all these things in a single text?
The questioner : The addition by a trustworthy narrator came through a single route, and the insertion by a trustworthy narrator... so how does that mean...
The Shaykh : Do you mean your statement contains several questions?
The questioner : No, it is just distinguishing between the insertion by a trustworthy narrator and the addition by a trustworthy narrator, especially if this addition...
The Shaykh : My brother, your question contains several questions. The insertion is one thing and the addition is another. So specify your question now in one thing?
The questioner : It is the distinction between them...
The Shaykh : Between them? I tell you, specify one question now. Ask about the addition and leave the insertion aside for now.
The questioner : I mean, how do they combine... the trustworthy narrator.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : May Allah reward you. I know the addition by a trustworthy narrator and I know the insertion, but what confuses me is the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, which he attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
My people will come on the Day of Resurrection with bright faces, hands and feet from the traces of Wudu. If any of you
إن أمتي يأتون يوم القيامة غرا محجلين من أثر الوضوء فمن استطاع منكمThe Shaykh : How did we know?
The questioner : That it is an insertion by Abu Hurayrah and not...
The Shaykh : That is why I tell you, separate the issue. Is every addition by any trustworthy narrator accepted?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : When, then, is the addition accepted?
The questioner : When it is not contradictory to the trustworthy narrators.
The Shaykh : Okay, that is the answer.
The questioner : But what is not contradictory?
The Shaykh : How is it not contradictory?
The questioner : This addition was not contradictory to the narration except according to the view of Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him).
The Shaykh : Ah, now I understand. You mean by contradiction, for example, one says no and the other says yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, that is not contradiction. May Allah reward you. If ten narrators—I am giving an example now, meaning exaggerating—ten narrators narrated a hadith with ten words, and one trustworthy narrator added a word that established a ruling, is this contradictory to those in your opinion?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not contradictory. That is not what is meant by contradiction. Contradiction is that the trustworthy narrator narrates, as Imam al-Shafi'i says, what the trustworthy narrators did not narrate. The contradiction intended here is opposition. Let me give you an example now. Let me give you an example now, and this example, as they say, is exactly like our previous hadith regarding
When he would go down into prostration, he would say takbir (Allahu Akbar).
كان إذا هوى ساجدا كبرSeventy thousand from my community will enter Paradise on the Day of Resurrection without reckoning or punishment, their faces like the full moon on the night of its fullness.
يدخل الجنة من أمتي سبعون ألفا يوم القيامة بدون حساب ولا عذاب وجوههم كالقمر ليلة البدرThey are those who do not use charms nor cauterise themselves nor seek omens and who rely on their Lord.
هم الذين لا يسترقون ولا يكتوون ولا يتطيرون وعلى ربهم يتوكلونThey are those persons who neither practise charm, nor ask others to practise it
هم الذين لا يرقون ولا يسترقونThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is not contradictory.
The questioner : It is not contradictory.
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner : Because it is contradictory to the wording of
seek ruqyah (healing by recitation)
يسترقونThe Shaykh : How?
The questioner : It is contradictory to the legal ruling regarding seeking ruqyah.
The Shaykh : The legal ruling is a second issue. The contradiction of the trustworthy narrator, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : Okay, this addition is contradictory to the trustworthy narrators who narrated "seek ruqyah."
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. You do not count my words. I am repeating your words.
The questioner: All right.
The Shaykh : In order for us to understand each other.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is there the contradiction I mentioned earlier here?
The questioner : You are telling me...
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : You are telling me that it is not contradictory according to your view.
The Shaykh : Yes, according to what we understood, that contradiction means opposition.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not contradiction in the sense that the trustworthy narrator mentioned something that the trustworthy narrators did not mention.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that not how we understood it?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Now here is an example where the trustworthy narrators did not mention
perform ruqyah (recitation for healing)
يرقونThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This trustworthy narrator added to them
perform ruqyah (recitation for healing)
يرقونThe questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So then, this is, according to your view that we understood, an addition by a trustworthy narrator.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because it is not a contradictory opposition, but merely that he added.
The questioner : It became a slip in your speech. The addition
perform ruqyah (recitation for healing)
يرقونseek ruqyah (healing by recitation)
يسترقونThe Shaykh : "Seek ruqyah," "seek ruqyah," "seek ruqyah," the addition.
The questioner : "Seek ruqyah," yes.
The Shaykh : This Shaykh matters to the student, it does not matter, clear, my brother, or not?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, my Shaykh. But this addition in the hadith, this addition, the one who added it contradicted what the trustworthy narrators narrated. As for the hadith of Abu Hurayrah...
The Shaykh : My brother, according to your definition of addition, it did not contradict. So I hope we finish this point. The addition may contradict the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But it does not contradict the trustworthy narrators, in your expression.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I do not want you to accept this as a debate. I want it based on understanding.
The questioner : I understand your words, Shaykh...
The Shaykh : When the scholars of hadith say that the addition of a trustworthy narrator is accepted, and they say: the anomalous hadith, what do they mean by the anomalous hadith?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, is it the contradiction that you translated earlier?
The questioner : That is what I understood.
The Shaykh : No, that is wrong. That is wrong, my brother. They mentioned this on this occasion as an example of an addition by a trustworthy narrator that might be anomalous, so they refuted it with a supporting chain.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : When they discussed the anomalous hadith, they mentioned the hadith of
The Messenger of Allah made Sadaqatul-Fitr
فرض رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - صدقة الفطرfrom the believers
من المؤمنينThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So now, if Malik had a unique chain for it, would it be an addition according to your method, or according to our method, just an addition to the trustworthy narrators without there being a contradiction?
The questioner : According to my method, it is not a contradiction.
The Shaykh : Why? How is it not?
The questioner : I say that this...
The Shaykh : What is the anomalous hadith, my brother?
The questioner : ... The anomalous hadith. May Allah reward you with good. But these narrators may have mentioned something, which is the generalization of the hadith, but here it means a restriction. There it was generalized and here it is restricted.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit of all this talk?
The questioner : ... So that one can distinguish between the insertion and the addition.
The Shaykh : Twenty. I said ten, now I am saying twenty. Now I am saying a hundred trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without this addition. Did these people err or did they hit the mark regarding the trustworthy narrator who brought the addition?
The questioner : What is the addition we are discussing?
The Shaykh : Do not specify, may Allah guide you. What do you imagine? These hundred trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without this addition or that. We do not care about the example now. Did they err or did they hit the mark regarding the narration of the trustworthy narrator who brought the addition?
The questioner : If it is contradictory in the first place...
The Shaykh : Contradictory to what? Contradictory to what?
The questioner : To the trustworthy narrators.
Another questioner : What is the contradiction of the narrator who was unique? He brought an addition. May Allah reward you. These hundred narrated a narration without an addition.
The Shaykh : My Shaykh, you are very confused. Sometimes you speak with an opinion that contradicts my opinion, and sometimes you return to my opinion and say if it is contradictory.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : I am giving you an example. A hundred narrators from the trustworthy narrators narrated the hadith without an addition
perform ruqyah (recitation for healing)
يرقونThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : A hundred and one trustworthy narrator brought this addition. If you say this addition is an addition by a trustworthy narrator, it must be accepted. Does that mean the hundred narrators erred because they did not memorize the hadith completely? Is that so or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Okay, when is the addition accepted?
The Shaykh : Be patient. Are you fully convinced?
The questioner : Yes, I am convinced now.
The Shaykh : But I am afraid you will be taken by illusions. Why? And I am the cause. But I will not stand with you at the illusion. I gave an example now. A hundred. Let us take half of the hundred, fifty.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So this addition is an accepted addition by a trustworthy narrator.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Or is it rejected?
The questioner : Rejected.
The Shaykh : We took a quarter of the fifty, twenty-five. Like this, we arrived at two trustworthy narrators. So your statement in defining the accepted addition by a trustworthy narrator is not correct, because you required that there be a contradiction, and here there is no contradiction. All that is the case is that one trustworthy narrator added to the two trustworthy narrators.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : He added. It is possible that this addition, from the jurisprudential aspect, is accepted, and it is possible that it is rejected. This is a jurisprudential issue, as we said earlier, regarding the hadith of, for example, Abu Ishaq in the tashahhud.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This is a second issue. But our discussion now is: when is the addition by a trustworthy narrator accepted? It is said: the trustworthy narrator added to a trustworthy narrator like him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : His addition is accepted. But if he added to someone who is more memorizing than him or more numerous than him, his addition is anomalous. And this is the established rule.
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