A word by "Abu Malik" on the virtue of the science of hadith and its scholars, and a discussion on the phenomenon of the young people's love of seeking prominence and their criticism of "Al-Albani" and his books.

Abu Malik: The scholars who became famous in this discipline, or in the sciences of the Sunnah, and who mastered them with good mastery, and who came to have a standing that is mentioned in them, some of them were not even known for authorship, but were known for the narration from them and the transmission.

The Shaykh: Yes.
Abu Malik: I say you will find them to be few, a very few in the history of Islam, yes, until we find, for example, those who recorded the hadith, the narrators who narrated, and this is of course, their narration is not because they attribute it to others, meaning; the weakening and the authenticating, so this type of things is very much correct; and therefore we saw in the very, very many books in the Sunnah, but those who judge on authenticity and weakness are few, so let us not be surprised in this time, I have actually come to see a lot.

The Shaykh: A great multitude.
Abu Malik: Yes, by Allah, it is a strange and wondrous thing, a wondrous thing; meaning, one is afraid; because this means, you say: this hadith is weak, and this hadith is good, and perhaps - also - of course, fame, or love of the self, or love of fame or love of reputation drives him to search for a reason to weaken an authentic hadith; so that it is said that he has reached what others have not reached!

The Shaykh: This is a great calamity, by Allah; so to Allah we belong and to Him we return.
Abu Malik: This is a word from him, this man, meaning in this tape or in another, or by transmission that he seems to mean, he slanders and throws some of his slandering words at you.

The Shaykh: It is so, some of the contemporaries say: he authenticates what the scholars of hadith agreed to weaken, and he weakens what the scholars of hadith agreed to authenticate.
Abu Malik: ... for example, on.

The Shaykh : Ever ... .
Abu Malik: Envy, meaning, if, for example, now it is weakened or authenticated by the people who work in this science, I believe this alone is sufficient to weaken it.

The Shaykh: Yes, correct ... a means of good.
Abu Malik: Yes, that is right.

The Shaykh: The least that can be said, meaning.
Abu Malik: Climbing over the wall - our Shaykh - climbing over the wall of a safe sanctuary, this is a very great sanctuary, and a sanctuary, meaning, that no one enters except one who is able to be patient with life and living in it; because many people cannot bear living in this sanctuary ... .
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And it is made easy in every time in which there is not the ability to persevere and take these causes; because there are very hidden paths, meaning, despite their ease and they may appear at first glance to be easy, and it is possible, meaning, to take them as a cause or causes in reaching the mastery of this science, but after looking and reflecting you find in them extreme difficulty, for example, what is called what is this - our Shaykh - the ? The hidden defects, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : ... .
Abu Malik: Yes?

The Shaykh: This is the most difficult science.

Another questioner : ... .
Abu Malik: The defects, the hidden defects.

The Shaykh : ... .
Abu Malik: Yes, the hidden defects, this is not something everyone can say: by Allah, I am able, I can authenticate or weaken in this defect by its presence, or authenticate by its absence; because how many of these defects may gather before a person and mix up for him, so it becomes difficult for him - also - to distinguish the weak hadith from the authentic one in them ... .
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Abu Malik: The first word.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Is that not so?

The Shaykh : Yes, that is it.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh: The one who ... .

The questioner : Oh!
Abu Malik: But I wonder, meaning, was the Shaykh "Miqbail" the one who spreads this saying among his students?

The questioner: We do not accuse the Shaykh, meaning, God forbid, but.
Abu Malik: I say.

The questioner: But my word, there are some people who perhaps do not understand anything in hadith, they transmit from people, for example, students, so there is distortion of what they heard, there are, meaning, those with ill intent who want to harm the Shaykh.
Abu Malik: I say, from our experience, my brother Abu 'Abd al-Rahman, our experience that we lived in the da'wah, we found that many of those who claim to belong to the school of so-and-so of the people, the scholarly schools I mean that became famous; sometimes they burden their Shaykhs with what cannot be borne, and they attribute to them words they did not say, and their purpose from this is one of two things; either to sow discord between so-and-so and so-and-so of the people, and neither knows what the other says.

The Shaykh : Correct.
Abu Malik: Yes?

The Shaykh : Correct.
Abu Malik: Yes, and either it is intended that this is an intruder, and he wants to make himself famous, but he is not able to prove this saying or attribute it to his Shaykh, and perhaps if his Shaykh knew what he said, he would have rebuked him for his saying and blamed him for it, but he says it in distance and far from him.

The questioner : ... correct ... .
Abu Malik: Because we know, meaning, from the Shaykh, our brother the Shaykh "Miqbail", that he does not have this style, meaning, of criticizing our Shaykh; because he holds our Shaykh in high regard and respects him.

The questioner: Correct words, there is nothing on.
Abu Malik: When you hear of Imam al-Shafi'i, and who is Imam al-Shafi'i in his knowledge in language, and he is an ocean in it, in his knowledge in the Sunnah, and he is an ocean in it, in fiqh, and in poetry, and in literature, and in the principles; of course, this is his first place, and then after that he writes to Imam Ahmad that he should send or dispatch to him what he has of hadith, because he is more knowledgeable about it than him, but I do not know this science, this is us.

Another questioner: Be careful, our Shaykh, our Shaykh, pay attention.
Abu Malik: These narrated sayings and biographies of the men, these people read them, and then after that they climb over the wall.

The Shaykh: They do not conduct themselves with them.
Abu Malik: They do not conduct themselves with them, and I am amazed, by Allah, I am very amazed, and then - O Glory be to Allah! - there is an important thing that if Allah - Mighty and Majestic - disciplined us and forbade us when He said: , ; this is if they are the living; so what about the dead? Meaning, if it is more severe with the dead; because the living may overcome a thousand dead, and the living may repel from himself what is thrown at him, but if he is dead, who repels for this dead person except that there is a living person who is just to this dead person, and how unlikely, how unlikely!!
And this is one of the signs of the Hour, the prevalence of the pen and the appearance of knowledge, this is one of the signs of the Hour, and the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - as I mentioned ... in the sermon of today that when the Messenger said: he intended to warn the ummah, so when the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - spoke about the omens of the Hour and its signs, he intended to make clear to the people that this ... in these signs and in these omens, when people grasp them by contradiction; because it is a contradiction of the command and prohibition to fall into these signs; because the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - when he makes the appearance of knowledge and the prevalence of the pen and its spread from the omens of the Hour; its meaning is that this thing is not praiseworthy, it is not praiseworthy; because truly, the spread of knowledge and the appearance of the pen and its prevalence is what makes there, meaning, a mixing of knowledge with some of it, and a person cannot distinguish, now, meaning, how many books appear in a day? How many books appear in a day? Hmm, can a person read - for example - the Shaykh "Nasir al-Din al-Albani" was mentioned and criticized in a book, who will know that the Shaykh "Nasir al-Din al-Albani" was criticized in this book except one who hears that he may be able to read, and perhaps his reading of this book is by chance and he will know, but most people do not know, and time passes and days and lifetimes end, and then the Shaykh Nasir dies after a long life and good work, and the generation with him also dies, and another generation comes, and this book falls into the hands of the following generation or the century after it; so what is said? Yes, this is wondrous.

The Shaykh: ... Ibn Taymiyyah, when was he known?
Abu Malik: After his death.

The Shaykh: No, after his death by a time, by centuries, now Ibn Taymiyyah is known, as for those who knew him before, they were individuals in every country.

Another questioner: Yes, God is the Greatest.
Abu Malik: And this is a blessing, meaning a blessing from Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) that He bestowed upon this community; that Ibn Taymiyyah is known by people centuries after his death. This is a blessing... a great blessing for us in this century, in this time, one of the greatest blessings.