What is the ijazah you received from Shaykh Muhammad Raghib al-Tabakh? And what is your story with him?
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Abu Ishaq: All right, our Shaykh, regarding Shaykh Muhammad Raghib al-Tabakh, in some of your books you say "our Shaykh by ijazah," so we just want to shed light on, meaning, the type of ijazah and shaykhood and the like.
The Shaykh : The type of ijazah is purely formal, and all ijazas, except for a rare few in the later centuries, are formal and have no value; the man was a member of the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus, and he would frequent Damascus for this occasion or others, and he was among the membersThe Shaykh : Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi, and he had a son whom you may have heard of, he is Muhammad al-Mubarak; Muhammad al-Mubarak was, for a period in the life of the brothers there, the head of the Muslim Brothers; and I used to frequent the Muslim Brothers and travel with them on their trips, and attend their lectures, and of course the goal of that is known, which is to convey the da'wah to them; and so many of them were influenced, Muhammad al-Mubarak was among them; of course, to a degree, he wasThe Shaykh : Raghib, may Allah have mercy on him, due to his frequenting Damascus, had affection between him and Muhammad al-Mubarak's father, Abd al-Qadir, so he would stay with them and visit them; so as Muhammad al-Mubarak told me, in a session my name came up and Muhammad al-Mubarak mentioned me with good, that this is a young man rising up and he has, and he has his concern and energy in the science of hadith; and I do not know the details, so he loved me thus in absentia and said to Muhammad al-Mubarak that I just need to attend, give a report to Muhammad Nasser so that I want to grant him an ijazah; so Muhammad al-Mubarak conveyed that to me, and the days passed and he came and stayed at a hotel there in Damascus and called me on the phone at the shop and said to meThe Shaykh : Raghib came, so I went to him and I did not know him before, I greeted him and he told me what he had heard from Muhammad al-Mubarak and said that this thing pleases me because the science of hadith has become forgotten and so on; and I love to grant you an ijazah, I said may Allah reward you with good, he performed an ijazah in the manner of the shaykhs, but it was a book he called al-Anwar al-Jaliyyah fi al-IjazatAl-Halabi : or something like that; so he said to me read, meaning it was all formalities, I read to him in the same book, perhaps in some place, so after I finished reading, everything was done, and the printed ijazah is in the same book, printed and with blanks, so he fills these blanks according to the persons.
Abu Ishaq: Like a coupon, for example.
— Al-Huwayni and Al-Albani, may Allah have mercy on them, laughed.
The Shaykh : Yes, so I point to this fact and I actually use it as a weapon against these poor people, who know that knowledge is what is received directly from the shaykhs, and even if they were not scholars, the like is mentioned with the like; I actually came out with an unbearable matter in Damascus regarding
The Shaykh : The type of ijazah is purely formal, and all ijazas, except for a rare few in the later centuries, are formal and have no value; the man was a member of the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus, and he would frequent Damascus for this occasion or others, and he was among the membersThe Shaykh : Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi, and he had a son whom you may have heard of, he is Muhammad al-Mubarak; Muhammad al-Mubarak was, for a period in the life of the brothers there, the head of the Muslim Brothers; and I used to frequent the Muslim Brothers and travel with them on their trips, and attend their lectures, and of course the goal of that is known, which is to convey the da'wah to them; and so many of them were influenced, Muhammad al-Mubarak was among them; of course, to a degree, he wasThe Shaykh : Raghib, may Allah have mercy on him, due to his frequenting Damascus, had affection between him and Muhammad al-Mubarak's father, Abd al-Qadir, so he would stay with them and visit them; so as Muhammad al-Mubarak told me, in a session my name came up and Muhammad al-Mubarak mentioned me with good, that this is a young man rising up and he has, and he has his concern and energy in the science of hadith; and I do not know the details, so he loved me thus in absentia and said to Muhammad al-Mubarak that I just need to attend, give a report to Muhammad Nasser so that I want to grant him an ijazah; so Muhammad al-Mubarak conveyed that to me, and the days passed and he came and stayed at a hotel there in Damascus and called me on the phone at the shop and said to meThe Shaykh : Raghib came, so I went to him and I did not know him before, I greeted him and he told me what he had heard from Muhammad al-Mubarak and said that this thing pleases me because the science of hadith has become forgotten and so on; and I love to grant you an ijazah, I said may Allah reward you with good, he performed an ijazah in the manner of the shaykhs, but it was a book he called al-Anwar al-Jaliyyah fi al-IjazatAl-Halabi : or something like that; so he said to me read, meaning it was all formalities, I read to him in the same book, perhaps in some place, so after I finished reading, everything was done, and the printed ijazah is in the same book, printed and with blanks, so he fills these blanks according to the persons.
Abu Ishaq: Like a coupon, for example.
— Al-Huwayni and Al-Albani, may Allah have mercy on them, laughed.
The Shaykh : Yes, so I point to this fact and I actually use it as a weapon against these poor people, who know that knowledge is what is received directly from the shaykhs, and even if they were not scholars, the like is mentioned with the like; I actually came out with an unbearable matter in Damascus regarding
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