Explanation of the hadith (If a mouse falls into the fat of one of you, throw it out along with what is around it, and eat the rest), and clarification of the anomaly in Ma'mar's narration regarding the distinction between liquid and solid.
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The Shaykh : It has come in the authentic hadith, which is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): The jurists have differed on this, or on this issue, based on the difference among the narrators in the narration of this hadith.
The correct narration is what you heard just now, which is general: This is the narration in Sahih al-Bukhari and others, and from routes that revolve around the noble Imam al-Zuhri. But in another narration outside the Sahih, Ma'mar narrated it uniquely from al-Zuhri, so he introduced a detail into the hadith. This detail was the cause of the jurists' disagreement, where he said: Sunan Abi Dawud 3842Shadh (Al-Albani) . Ma'mar's narration is an anomalous narration in the terminology of hadith scholars, because this Ma'mar is trustworthy, but he has some contradictions. So if he contradicts someone who is more memorizing than him or has more narrations than him, as is the case with this hadith, his narration is anomalous. And the anomalous hadith is a category of weak hadith according to hadith scholars.
So when this hadith reality becomes clear to him, and that the authentic hadith is general and does not contain this detail that Ma'mar narrated uniquely, then it is not permissible for him from the jurisprudential aspect to specify the hadith with the anomalous narration or with the opinion, as some of them say. This mouse, when it falls into solid fat, it is possible that when we see the fat is solid and surrounding the mouse, it may have fallen when the fat or oil was liquid. So the fat or oil may have been disturbed by the mouse and its impurity mixed with thisThe questioner : of the oil or of the fat. What makes us know that this mouse fell into this fat only when it was solid, or into the oil? This is the opinion of some of the critics among the jurists. But we do not see any weight or value to such an opinion in the face of the generality of the hadith or the generality of the authentic hadith,Sahih Ibn Hibban 8:370 And we can imagine that when the mouse fell into the liquid fat or oil, it actually stirred in it, struck the bottom, and came up to the top, and so on. But it was not time for it to disintegrate and spread its harms throughout this oil or this fat. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth when he said: On this scale, we arrive at the previous result: that Dutch cheese, even if it contains some of the impurity of the rennet, this does not harm, because this impurity is lost in the midst of tons, or at least kilograms, of milk.
The questioner : Clear ... ?
The Shaykh : Yes, there is one, O 'Abd Allah, what did you have?
If a mouse falls into the fat of one of you, throw it out along with what is around it, and eat the rest
إذا وقعت الفأرة في سمن أحدكم فألقوها وما حولها وكلوهThe correct narration is what you heard just now, which is general:
If a mouse falls into the fat of one of you, throw it out along with what is around it, and eat the rest
إذا وقعت الفأرة في سمن أحدكم فألقوها وما حولها وكلوهif it is sold, throw the mouse and what is around it away, but if it is in a liquid state, do not go near it
فإن كان جامدًا فألقوها وما حولها ، وإن كان مائعًا فأريقوهSo when this hadith reality becomes clear to him, and that the authentic hadith is general and does not contain this detail that Ma'mar narrated uniquely, then it is not permissible for him from the jurisprudential aspect to specify the hadith with the anomalous narration or with the opinion, as some of them say. This mouse, when it falls into solid fat, it is possible that when we see the fat is solid and surrounding the mouse, it may have fallen when the fat or oil was liquid. So the fat or oil may have been disturbed by the mouse and its impurity mixed with thisThe questioner : of the oil or of the fat. What makes us know that this mouse fell into this fat only when it was solid, or into the oil? This is the opinion of some of the critics among the jurists. But we do not see any weight or value to such an opinion in the face of the generality of the hadith or the generality of the authentic hadith,
Throw it out along with what is around it, and eat the rest
فألقوها وما حولها وكلوهThrow it out along with what is around it, then eat the rest
فألقوها وما حولها ثم كلوهThe questioner : Clear ... ?
The Shaykh : Yes, there is one, O 'Abd Allah, what did you have?
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