What is the meaning of your statement: “It is permissible to strengthen a weak hadith with itself, not with its like”?
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The questioner : What is the meaning of your statement in your letter in the introduction to the treatise on standing in night prayer, page thirteen, second edition? You said: “It is permissible to strengthen a weak hadith with itself, not with its like.” What is intended by this phrase?
The Shaykh : It is permissible to strengthen a weak hadith with itself?
The questioner : Not with its like.
The Shaykh : This is not a proper expression; the expression is not correct. “Strengthening the hadith with itself, not with its like”—the word “with itself” is an insertion. It is permissible to strengthen a hadith with its like; a weak hadith is strengthened with its like, but “with itself” is an insertion.
The questioner : Do you mean it is a printing error?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is permissible to strengthen a weak hadith with itself?
The questioner : Not with its like.
The Shaykh : This is not a proper expression; the expression is not correct. “Strengthening the hadith with itself, not with its like”—the word “with itself” is an insertion. It is permissible to strengthen a hadith with its like; a weak hadith is strengthened with its like, but “with itself” is an insertion.
The questioner : Do you mean it is a printing error?
The Shaykh: Yes.
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