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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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about the ruling on using the term "master" for some people?

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The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes, what do you mean?

The questioner : ... .

Eid Abbasi : ... .

The questioner : The grade of the hadith... authentic... .

The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with it, my master; because making the Messenger a master, or rather making him a master, and he said about himself:
I am the leader of the sons of Adam, and it is no boast أنا سيِّد ولد آدم ولا فخر
Sunan Ibn Majah 4308Sahih (Darussalam)
, and he said regarding the master of the Ansar:
Rise to your master. قوموا إلى سيدكم
, so he called him a master, and he himself—peace be upon him—is a master. So if he is addressed with this term at times and nothing is associated with the address that indicates exaggeration in glorification, it is speech in its proper place and context. The hadith that you know, when a man said to him: "You are our master." He said:
The master is Allah السيد هو الله
. And in another hadith, when the man said: "You are our master and the son of our master, and you are the best of us and the son of the best of us," he said:
Say what you have to say, or part of what you have to say, and do not let the devil make you his agents. قولوا بقولكم هذا أو ببعض قولكم ولا يستجرينَّكم الشيطان
Sunan Abi Dawud 4806Sahih (Al-Albani)
. In this, there is a warning about two important things—and peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings:
The first thing: the permissibility of saying "O my master." The second hadith, he said to them:
Say what you have to say, or part of what you have to say قولوا بقولكم أو ببعض قولكم
Sunan Abi Dawud 4806Sahih (Al-Albani)
, so this is clear evidence of the permissibility of making the Messenger—peace be upon him—a master. But there is another benefit, which is pointing to the reason for the Messenger's—peace be upon him—response in the previous hadith to the one who said: "You are our master." He said:
Al-Sayyid is Allah. السيد الله
. This other hadith points to why he rebuked them there? Fear that Satan might lure them. This person who said to the Messenger—peace be upon him—"O my master," and did not intend by this statement any exaggeration in his status; so there is absolutely nothing wrong with it; because the Messenger is truly the master of all people on the Day of Resurrection.
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