What benefit does a student of knowledge derive from manuscripts?
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The questioner : Regarding the modern manuscripts, you have authored three manuscripts in the Zahiriyyah Library, and you mentioned in the introduction that you collected forty volumes of hadith benefits. You stated that some people bring second manuscripts to the library. Shaykh, all the manuscripts of the Zahiriyyah Library have been transferred to the Asad Library, and they brought manuscripts from the Hamdaniyyah Library in Aleppo and the Homs Library. So I went to the library and transferred, meaning, everything: the names of the manuscripts, adding the manuscripts of the Zahiriyyah. What does that mean... to add the Aleppo and Hama libraries. The manuscripts of the Zahiriyyah are possible.
The Shaykh : I wrote their names.
The questioner : Yes, I have all their names.
The Shaykh : Approximately how many books?
The questioner : It came out to be, meaning, a large notebook.
The Shaykh : That is not an answer.
The questioner : Their names, meaning, all of them.
The Shaykh : No, what was my question?
The questioner : That I wrote their names.
The Shaykh : How many books?
The questioner : How many books are their names?
The Shaykh : How many books? A hundred thousand? A million?
The questioner : By Allah, O Shaykh, I did not count them, but they are many, meaning.
The Shaykh : Approximately, my brother, may Allah guide you, a thousand, less or more.
The questioner : No, more than a thousand.
The Shaykh : Fine, that is the answer. And I wrote the names of the works and the names of the authors, and what their topics are. Fine, after this, what is your question?
The questioner : Meaning, what can you benefit from these manuscripts?
The Shaykh : You benefit from studying them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Did you study them?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit? You see these, these are from studying manuscripts. Whenever I need to trace a hadith, I find the Zahiriyyah Library right here in front of me. So this study, you must study the hadiths... with their chains of narration, and arrange them according to the letters of the alphabet. You will have very rich material in the future that helps you with tracing, if you become qualified for tracing, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : I wrote their names.
The questioner : Yes, I have all their names.
The Shaykh : Approximately how many books?
The questioner : It came out to be, meaning, a large notebook.
The Shaykh : That is not an answer.
The questioner : Their names, meaning, all of them.
The Shaykh : No, what was my question?
The questioner : That I wrote their names.
The Shaykh : How many books?
The questioner : How many books are their names?
The Shaykh : How many books? A hundred thousand? A million?
The questioner : By Allah, O Shaykh, I did not count them, but they are many, meaning.
The Shaykh : Approximately, my brother, may Allah guide you, a thousand, less or more.
The questioner : No, more than a thousand.
The Shaykh : Fine, that is the answer. And I wrote the names of the works and the names of the authors, and what their topics are. Fine, after this, what is your question?
The questioner : Meaning, what can you benefit from these manuscripts?
The Shaykh : You benefit from studying them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Did you study them?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit? You see these, these are from studying manuscripts. Whenever I need to trace a hadith, I find the Zahiriyyah Library right here in front of me. So this study, you must study the hadiths... with their chains of narration, and arrange them according to the letters of the alphabet. You will have very rich material in the future that helps you with tracing, if you become qualified for tracing, if Allah wills.
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