The Shaykh's response to Abu Ghayah regarding his denial of the addition of "intentionally"

The Shaykh : And I had clarified its authenticity and refuted those who denied it out of their profound ignorance, namely the one known as Abu Rayah, who has a book attacking Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him). He claimed there that the hadith scholars narrated this hadith with the addition of "intentionally", and that this addition is not authentic. The man is among the most ignorant of people in the science of hadith and the routes of hadith. So I refuted him from two angles. The first angle is that this addition is established in many of the routes of the hadith, and this hadith is one of the most famous mass-transmitted reports. This word appeared in numerous routes, and the Imam al-Tabarani has a specific treatise preserved with us in Damascus in the Zahiriyyah Library, a manuscript titled "The Routes of the Hadith ." So this addition is authentic in terms of narration. Then, the other narrations in which this addition did not appear are, in terms of meaning, the same as this addition. And I clarified all of this there. And the clarification of this now: the hadith is . Without the word, what? "Intentionally." Do you think the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), when he said , meant "not intentionally"? Is it possible that the Wise Lawgiver intends to hold the forgetful or the one who makes a mistake accountable in the same way as the one who does it intentionally? This does not exist in Islam or in the Qur'an: . So if a man narrates a saying and forgets and makes a mistake, saying, "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said," this man, in reality, has lied about the Messenger (peace be upon him), but from a legal standpoint, it is said to him: . The answer is no; rather, the Fire will not touch him with a stake or with punishment. Why? Because accountability is lifted from him, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith: . What is the third?

The questioner : The insane person.

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : The insane person.
Another questioner: .

The Shaykh : No, no, that is not it.

The questioner : The insane person.

The Shaykh : Yes. So note that accountability only occurs with the presence of intent from the person. If he did not intend it, nothing issued from him with intent, so there is no accountability on him. And so this is among the facilitations of the Shari'ah, and the known verse was revealed regarding this when the Companions said: . So the response came from the sky from the Lord of the Worlds, (Glorified and Exalted is He), saying, yes, on the tongue of Gabriel: . So the meaning of the hadith is intentionally, deliberately, not by mistake, because the one who makes a mistake, no matter what he does, has no sin on him. When one of the Companions killed that disbeliever when he was under the blow of the Muslim's sword and said: "No, except, except Allah", it was most likely in his mind that he said this out of fear of being killed. So what did the Messenger (peace be upon him) do? He killed him. He did not hold him accountable in the known way such that he would obligate him to pay blood money. Rather, he said to him as a teacher: . He (peace be upon him) taught him, but he did not hold him accountable in the way that a Muslim who kills a Muslim intentionally and deliberately would be held accountable. So the claim of this person that this addition is not established is, first, due to his ignorance of the routes of the hadith, and rather due to his negligence of the meaning of the hadith without this addition. The meaning of this addition is present in the hadith whether it is established or not. Whoever lies about me intentionally, certainly... but whoever lies about me by mistake, not intentionally, has no accountability on him at all.