What is the ruling on the 'an'anah of Ibn al-Zubayr?
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The student : The hadith regarding the sacrifice of the jadh' (young camel), naturally, I stumbled over it... regarding the... 'an'anah?
The Shaykh : Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi spared us the trouble of researching this issue when he wrote a biography of Abu al-Zubayr and mentioned that what al-Layth ibn Sa'd narrated from Abu al-Zubayr is based on hearing it directly, but what is other than that is not; and in Sahih Muslim there are many narrations from Abu al-Zubayr by narrators other than al-Layth, and one feels something about them, as Muslim says so; then the thing that appears to the researcher is that the later scholars, the well-known preservers, are in reality always concerned with the 'an'anah of Abu al-Zubayr; but this is when the hadith is outside the Sahih, outside Sahih Muslim; but the reality is that in that case the researcher's soul is not truly at ease, even if the hadith with 'an'anah from Abu al-Zubayr is in Sahih Muslim, because the rule is one.
The student : Because he is the one who established it.
The Shaykh : The rule is one, and therefore, if there is no corroborating narration (shahid) for the hadith that Abu al-Zubayr narrated with 'an'anah that the researcher can rely on to strengthen Abu al-Zubayr's hadith with 'an'anah, if he finds nothing of this, the soul remains not at ease regarding attributing this hadith with 'an'anah to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), because it is the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); and it is obligatory for the Muslim to be cautious in this and not to narrate what the soul is not at ease with; this is what we see and believe, and knowledge is with Allah.
The student : And the truth is, it is said that this is not a disparagement, but rather a defense of the scholars of hadith, that there is no interpretation now; so these are rules they established and applied to everyone, and praise be to Allah; but al-Daraqutni did not address this in his notes on his commitments.
The Shaykh : I, in reality, do not have a study on this issue.
The student : He... the discussion is about the narrators, there are other hadiths, and what saves us from this problem is only that we ask...
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi spared us the trouble of researching this issue when he wrote a biography of Abu al-Zubayr and mentioned that what al-Layth ibn Sa'd narrated from Abu al-Zubayr is based on hearing it directly, but what is other than that is not; and in Sahih Muslim there are many narrations from Abu al-Zubayr by narrators other than al-Layth, and one feels something about them, as Muslim says so; then the thing that appears to the researcher is that the later scholars, the well-known preservers, are in reality always concerned with the 'an'anah of Abu al-Zubayr; but this is when the hadith is outside the Sahih, outside Sahih Muslim; but the reality is that in that case the researcher's soul is not truly at ease, even if the hadith with 'an'anah from Abu al-Zubayr is in Sahih Muslim, because the rule is one.
The student : Because he is the one who established it.
The Shaykh : The rule is one, and therefore, if there is no corroborating narration (shahid) for the hadith that Abu al-Zubayr narrated with 'an'anah that the researcher can rely on to strengthen Abu al-Zubayr's hadith with 'an'anah, if he finds nothing of this, the soul remains not at ease regarding attributing this hadith with 'an'anah to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), because it is the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); and it is obligatory for the Muslim to be cautious in this and not to narrate what the soul is not at ease with; this is what we see and believe, and knowledge is with Allah.
The student : And the truth is, it is said that this is not a disparagement, but rather a defense of the scholars of hadith, that there is no interpretation now; so these are rules they established and applied to everyone, and praise be to Allah; but al-Daraqutni did not address this in his notes on his commitments.
The Shaykh : I, in reality, do not have a study on this issue.
The student : He... the discussion is about the narrators, there are other hadiths, and what saves us from this problem is only that we ask...
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
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