Discussion on the importance of the science of hadith and the danger of speaking about it without knowledge.
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The Shaykh: It means a theory, and it is not of that strength. Now, the Muslim world has begun to awaken to the importance of the science of hadith for about thirty years, but they all rose up at once. So I wanted to say: In Saudi Arabia, they now represent the state of the Muslim world, both now and before. Before, the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia, was in heedlessness. There was nothing called the science of hadith at all. Tawhid (the oneness of Allah); what Allah willed! Hanbali fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence); what Allah willed! But as for authentic, weak, disconnected, or mursal (a report missing the Companion link) hadith... Now, they represent the general state of the Muslim world. They grew up like this, as one single group. Among them is a person named "Abdullah Sa'd - or al-Sa'd -" who gives very dangerous theoretical lessons. When we traveled to Irbid with the father, we heard him on the tape going and coming. That is why we used to slow down our pace, contrary to our custom, because we were listening to the tape!
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Oh?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: No, the point is that Ibn al-Qayyim says, in answer to a question: "Is it possible to know a fabricated hadith without referring to the chain of narration?" He answered: "Yes; whoever has studied the Sunnah and the Prophetic hadith until the Sunnah flows in his veins like blood, he can do this." This Shaykh Abdullah al-Miskin is now presenting to them in advance that one should look at the text before the chain of narration. This has ruined the entire religion!! Looking at the text, the one who wants to look at the text will have spent his life studying texts until he has a natural aptitude; meaning, he has a Prophetic taste.
The questioner: On the basis of Prophetic taste, meaning?
The Shaykh: Yes, yes, but where is this taste supposed to come from? And then the problem is that he is still a young man. So what are those who are teaching them supposed to be? Children, we want to say children, meaning.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: He comes to present to them this introduction that looking should be at the text before the chain of narration, I seek refuge in Allah!! And he presents to them rules and principles that no scholar says. He tells you: "The unknown man's hadith is authenticated by the majority of scholars"; even though one of the conditions of an authentic hadith is that "the narrator is just and precise, from his like, from his like to the end, and he is not anomalous and not defective." The unknown man's justice is not known, his precision is not known, so he comes and negates this rule with an idea based only on his ignorance and lack of practice of this science; so Glorified is Allah! The condition I mentioned earlier is very necessary.
The questioner: ... I said, and he places the ruling here, I said.
The Shaykh: And Glorified is Allah! This same man, every little while, says: "We mentioned," every little while he says: "We mentioned," meaning, without knowing him, you feel that he is a peacock!
Another questioner: ... Our Shaykh ... .
The Shaykh: Who is this who wants ... ?
The questioner: The Shaykh Wajih.
The Shaykh: Wajih?
The questioner: The one who was with you that day.
The Shaykh : Who is he?
The questioner: The one who came ... .
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Oh?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: No, the point is that Ibn al-Qayyim says, in answer to a question: "Is it possible to know a fabricated hadith without referring to the chain of narration?" He answered: "Yes; whoever has studied the Sunnah and the Prophetic hadith until the Sunnah flows in his veins like blood, he can do this." This Shaykh Abdullah al-Miskin is now presenting to them in advance that one should look at the text before the chain of narration. This has ruined the entire religion!! Looking at the text, the one who wants to look at the text will have spent his life studying texts until he has a natural aptitude; meaning, he has a Prophetic taste.
The questioner: On the basis of Prophetic taste, meaning?
The Shaykh: Yes, yes, but where is this taste supposed to come from? And then the problem is that he is still a young man. So what are those who are teaching them supposed to be? Children, we want to say children, meaning.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: He comes to present to them this introduction that looking should be at the text before the chain of narration, I seek refuge in Allah!! And he presents to them rules and principles that no scholar says. He tells you: "The unknown man's hadith is authenticated by the majority of scholars"; even though one of the conditions of an authentic hadith is that "the narrator is just and precise, from his like, from his like to the end, and he is not anomalous and not defective." The unknown man's justice is not known, his precision is not known, so he comes and negates this rule with an idea based only on his ignorance and lack of practice of this science; so Glorified is Allah! The condition I mentioned earlier is very necessary.
The questioner: ... I said, and he places the ruling here, I said.
The Shaykh: And Glorified is Allah! This same man, every little while, says: "We mentioned," every little while he says: "We mentioned," meaning, without knowing him, you feel that he is a peacock!
Another questioner: ... Our Shaykh ... .
The Shaykh: Who is this who wants ... ?
The questioner: The Shaykh Wajih.
The Shaykh: Wajih?
The questioner: The one who was with you that day.
The Shaykh : Who is he?
The questioner: The one who came ... .
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