Did Sa'id Hawwa return to the creed of the Salaf?
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Al-Halali: May Allah forgive Sa'id Hawwa. He came to you a while before his death, declaring his acceptance of the creed of the Salaf or something similar. Is this true, as it was rumored?
The Shaykh: My brother, well, the apparent reality is that some people interpret events that actually happen according to their own desires. I was ill in the hospital, and he was also ill and would visit the hospital. It was said to him that Al-Albani was here, so he came to me with his two sons to greet me. Of course, I had not seen him since I left Damascus for here. He used to attend my lessons in the past, I don't know... It turned out that he had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. So, during that illness that forced me to go to the hospital, he came to visit me with his sons, and we had a friendly conversation. By Allah, I don't remember what the conversation was about now, because I was only hinting at the Salafi call. But, glory be to Allah, I no longer remember. Was someone present?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh: Yes, do you remember?
The questioner: You mentioned to me that it was a conversation with his sons, one of whom was studying Shari'ah.
The Shaykh: Yes, we told him, "Yes, indeed." He said to me that one son specializes in studying hadith at the College of Hadith, and the other at the College of Fiqh. So I took the approach that they would follow the schools of jurisprudence. I said, "This is good work; each son feeds the other. The jurist needs hadith, and the hadith scholar needs fiqh." I was hinting at the call to the truth, and so on. He agreed with this speech and did not discuss it at all. As for him coming to me here at the house, no, that did not happen.
Al-Halabi: Also, Shaykh, you mentioned to us that day that he asked you about some hadiths and told you, "I bought Sahih al-Jami' and al-Mishkat and something like that." And you told him that day that if this was before [or something like that].
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed. His position there was actually different from what we imagined. But perhaps the illness, and the mild weather, softened things a bit, from his side and from my side, because he carries terrible campaigns against the Salafis. May Allah forgive us and him, because you don't know; perhaps he was misguided and he wanted guidance, but he did not take the path of guidance.
The questioner: I turned away from him because I found in him some contradiction or things that were unnecessary, such as saying, "What is your opinion of Professor Sa'id Hawwa, and is he such-and-such?" The answer is clear.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The Shaykh: My brother, well, the apparent reality is that some people interpret events that actually happen according to their own desires. I was ill in the hospital, and he was also ill and would visit the hospital. It was said to him that Al-Albani was here, so he came to me with his two sons to greet me. Of course, I had not seen him since I left Damascus for here. He used to attend my lessons in the past, I don't know... It turned out that he had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. So, during that illness that forced me to go to the hospital, he came to visit me with his sons, and we had a friendly conversation. By Allah, I don't remember what the conversation was about now, because I was only hinting at the Salafi call. But, glory be to Allah, I no longer remember. Was someone present?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh: Yes, do you remember?
The questioner: You mentioned to me that it was a conversation with his sons, one of whom was studying Shari'ah.
The Shaykh: Yes, we told him, "Yes, indeed." He said to me that one son specializes in studying hadith at the College of Hadith, and the other at the College of Fiqh. So I took the approach that they would follow the schools of jurisprudence. I said, "This is good work; each son feeds the other. The jurist needs hadith, and the hadith scholar needs fiqh." I was hinting at the call to the truth, and so on. He agreed with this speech and did not discuss it at all. As for him coming to me here at the house, no, that did not happen.
Al-Halabi: Also, Shaykh, you mentioned to us that day that he asked you about some hadiths and told you, "I bought Sahih al-Jami' and al-Mishkat and something like that." And you told him that day that if this was before [or something like that].
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed. His position there was actually different from what we imagined. But perhaps the illness, and the mild weather, softened things a bit, from his side and from my side, because he carries terrible campaigns against the Salafis. May Allah forgive us and him, because you don't know; perhaps he was misguided and he wanted guidance, but he did not take the path of guidance.
The questioner: I turned away from him because I found in him some contradiction or things that were unnecessary, such as saying, "What is your opinion of Professor Sa'id Hawwa, and is he such-and-such?" The answer is clear.
The Shaykh: Yes.
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