The student mentioned the conditions for accepting a mursal hadith and the Shaykh’s discussion of them.

The questioner : ... The mursal narrator is from the senior Tabi'un, and Mujahid, Ata, and Ibn Yasar are among them. Second, if they participated with the trustworthy memorizers and did not contradict them, and we do not know of anyone who contradicted them. Third: if he named the one from whom he transmitted it mursal, he named him as trustworthy. One condition is added to these three conditions. First: that the hadith be narrated from another source as a musnad. I said: And it was narrated from Ibn Umar, from Abu Sa'id, pardon me, yes, from Jabir. Second: or that it be narrated from another source as mursal, where the one who transmitted it mursal is not one of the men of the first mursal, and it was narrated through the route of Ata ibn Yasar. Third: that it agree with the statement of a Companion. And I said: And it agreed with the statement of four Companions: Ibn Umar, Abu Hurayrah, Jabir, and Ibn Abbas. That the majority of the scholars issue a fatwa based on its implication, and that is the case; because among us, the Tabi'un also issued fatwas, and the Companions did as well.
So what is your opinion, may your honor remain?

The Shaykh : Now you have listed what you have.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Now, if you want to discuss it, we should stop at every hadith.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : And define our perspective on it; first: in terms of its narration, and second: in terms of its content.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : First: we perform a filtering process; whatever is valid we place before us, even if it is mursal, as it is in the athar of Mujahid, and whatever is not valid and is weak, if it is weak but can be used as evidence, we also place it before us on the platform, but if it is severely weak, we turn away from it.
So now we want you to summarize for us based on this first matter, which is: what is the valid one in your view that explicitly mentions taking from the beard?

The questioner : Only the narration of Mujahid.

The Shaykh : Only?

The questioner : Only?

The Shaykh : Okay; do you have a weak one that can be used as evidence? I don't think you do!

The questioner : I do, but it is the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, I am saying: it can be used as evidence; meaning it is not...

The questioner : Weak, no, I have a weak one.

The Shaykh : It is not weak, my brother; it is severely weak. My question is: do you have a weak hadith that can be used as evidence, meaning it is not severely weak?

The questioner : In my opinion.

The Shaykh : Yes, bring it.

The questioner : The hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner : Meaning approximately.

The Shaykh : No problem.

The questioner : The origin of taking.

The Shaykh : Is this only weak?

The questioner : Weak, Abu Nu'aym narrated it in "Al-Hilyah" through the route of Abu Ibrahim al-Haytham, and al-Khatib narrated it in "His History," and in it is Ufayr ibn Ma'dan, who is weak.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Did you follow up on the biography of the man?

The questioner : Ufayr?

The Shaykh : We do not have anyone else now.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Did you follow up on his biography?

The questioner : I followed up on his biography.

The Shaykh : Okay; your saying: and he is weak; is that your saying or the saying of someone else?

The questioner : No, it is my saying.

The Shaykh : Who preceded you to this?

The questioner : No one preceded me.

The Shaykh : Ah, that is the problem with this!

The questioner : I found this man to have a defect and I judged him weak because of that; because Abu Nu'aym says: strange, pardon me.

The Shaykh : One of us must have been preceded to the statement he made through his own ijtihad.