Explaining the misguidance of those who accept ahad reports in rulings but not in creed
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The Shaykh : ... And for that reason, I once mentioned a point on an occasion like this, which in reality represents the misguidance of these people. I said: They claim that a man from these innovators who distinguish between one hadith and another, both of which are authentic, says that this one is to be acted upon because it concerns rulings, while that one is not to be acted upon because it concerns creed. And this distinction, as you know, is from clear misguidance. One of these people went to Japan, for example, to call them to Islam. Naturally, they started with creed. And among what he mentioned in his creed was that ahad reports do not establish creed. So one of the intelligent people present stood up and said: "O Professor, I see you are contradicting yourself." He said: "Why?" He said: "Because you are teaching us that creed is not established by ahad reports, and now you are teaching us creed. So we ask you to go back the way you came and bring a mass-transmitted report, meaning bring people who are considered a mass-transmitted number, and all of them convey to us what you convey to us. If this is the Islamic creed, then the lecturer was baffled, because he was given a stone from his own creed. He is teaching them creed, and part of the creed is that ahad reports do not establish creed. So what are you doing here? You are teaching us creed, and you are an individual; you must have a group with you. And this research, as I told you, has a very long tail, and this amount is sufficient for you. Finally, I say it is enough that the righteous Salaf and the four Imams did not know this philosophy; they do not distinguish between a hadith in creed that is not to be accepted and a hadith in rulings that must be accepted. But I will mention finally a point concerning students of knowledge that contains very precise jurisprudence. We said to some of these people once: If a hadith comes to you that, on one hand, contains a legal ruling and is an ahad report, and on the other hand, includes creed, what do you do? If you accept it because it contains a ruling, you contradict the fact that you accepted it because it contains creed. They said: How is that? What is the example? We said: Here is the example. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated in their Sahihs from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih Muslim 588a Do you accept this hadith and seek refuge with Allah from these four things in the final tashahhud? They said: It is obligatory. I said to you: Do you believe in what is in it? It contains the punishment of the grave, and you do not believe in the punishment of the grave. So what do you do? If you leave the hadith, you contradict the rule of the obligation to accept hadiths in rulings. And if you accept the hadith, you contradict the rule that hadiths are not accepted in creed. And this is the condition of the falsifiers always and forever. And this amount is sufficient as an answer to this question. I see you are in a hurry and greedy; let us see, my brother, if your turn has come. May Allah turn your turn away from you. Please, go ahead.
When any one of you utters tashahhud (in prayer) he must seek refuge with Allah from four (trials) and should thus say:" O Allah! I seek refuge with Thee from the torment of the Hell, from the torment of the grave, from the trial of life and death and from the evil of the trial of Masih al-Dajjal" (Antichrist).
إذا جلس أحدكم في التشهد الأخير فليستعذ بالله من أربع يقول اللهم إني أعوذ بك من عذاب جهنم ومن عذاب القبر ومن فتنة المحيا والممات ومن شر فتنة المسيح الدجال
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