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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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regarding the hadith: "Beware of the cold, for it killed your brother Abu al-Darda'"?

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The Shaykh : ... It is not permissible to attribute it to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) due to the clear invalidity of the report. Although it is possible to consider it a piece of wisdom, the meaning contained within it is invalid, and it is not correct in any way to attribute it to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), because it contradicts the historical reality which is established with certainty. The wording of the hadith "Beware of the cold..." up to this point contains nothing wrong, but look at the rest: "... for it killed your brother Abu al-Darda'." And Abu al-Darda' died after the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)...! Yes, one of the methods of the scholars of hadith in detecting the lies of some narrators is that one of them would narrate from a trustworthy and precise scholar of hadith, and one of the intelligent scholars would ask this narrator, saying to him, "Where did you meet him?" He would say, "In Mecca and Medina." He would say, "In which year?" He would say, "In such-and-such a year." He would say, "He died several years before that." So this cold... for it killed your brother Abu al-Darda', and Abu al-Darda' lived for many long years after the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)...
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