Continuing the discussion on some scientific books, and his remarks on some books lost due to certain wars that took place in the region of Greater India.
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The questioner : ... in Jordan.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is this your private house...?
The Shaykh : Her soldiers came.
The questioner : These volumes that you rely on for the research...?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, this is a great gain.
The questioner : I had published it, but I do not have many copies of it... the dates of death of the shaykhs who... and it contains other treatises as well, on language, on "Al-Ruba'i fi al-Hadith" by "Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi," meaning all of these were published in the Salafi University Magazine in India.
The Shaykh : I was the one who copied this treatise from "Al-Zahiriyah."
The questioner : Yes, you referred to that, and in another copy I found "Al-Zahiriyah" itself in the "Al-Zahiriyah" collections, an incomplete copy, and there is a copy...
The Shaykh : If you do not have anything else, keep it for yourself.
The questioner : I do not have it, but if Allah wills, we will send it to you. I want to collect it in a part and publish it. This was also a copy from "Al-Zahiriyah," "Ghayat al-Maqasid" in four volumes, which will be published if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Of course, the copy you found, the second copy, is in the author's handwriting?
The questioner : It is in the author's handwriting.
The Shaykh : Okay, what do you think, where was it lost from the book, or was it not completed, or how?
The questioner : The book was not completed. I have a study on... in Urdu and in Arabic. This one is in Urdu, so after I contacted his grandsons and great-grandsons and went to the Khudabaksh Library in "Patna" and the other libraries, I found that the author himself did not complete this commentary, as his colleagues and companions mention, but he had completed at least about one-third of the commentary, one-third of the book, and perhaps if the twenty-second part of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's division of "Sunan Abu Dawud" is where he finished his commentary, because he always refers to this part in "Awn al-Ma'bud," and the commentary and detail are in "Al-Ghayah" and so on.
And in the end, two incidents occurred, in one of which it was perhaps lost. The first was the sectarian clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the year 1946 CE, which happened in the "Patna" region and the "Bihar" region, especially in the author's village. Many Hindus and Muslims took refuge in his house to protect themselves and stayed there, and they were confined in the house for about fifteen days, or twenty days, or a month. During this period, no attention was paid to these books and other things, and they were not preserved, and some of them were actually burned as fuel; so perhaps they were lost in that, or not, because those who were in the house did not value them.
The Shaykh : Ignorant people who did not know.
The questioner : Ignorant people who did not know, and they thought these books were old and so on... because they were not printed.
The second incident was the incident of Bangladesh's independence in the year 1971 CE. There were some important books, perhaps including parts of "Ghayat al-Maqasid" as well, which "Muhammad Idris Abd al-Azim Abadi" took, and he is the son of the shaykh "Shams al-Haqq Abd al-Azim Abadi," and he kept them for a long time, so we do not know the fate of these. They were in three boxes, and we do not know where their fate lies; meaning after the year 1971 CE.
The Shaykh : Does "Muhammad Idris" have children?
The questioner : Yes, he has children, but... they all fled; some of them were killed there, possibly in this fitnah or in the first fitnah, and some parts were lost, but what we found is only three or four volumes.
The Shaykh : We ask Allah that you may be able to obtain the rest of it.
The questioner : We are looking for it in different places.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is this your private house...?
The Shaykh : Her soldiers came.
The questioner : These volumes that you rely on for the research...?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, this is a great gain.
The questioner : I had published it, but I do not have many copies of it... the dates of death of the shaykhs who... and it contains other treatises as well, on language, on "Al-Ruba'i fi al-Hadith" by "Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi," meaning all of these were published in the Salafi University Magazine in India.
The Shaykh : I was the one who copied this treatise from "Al-Zahiriyah."
The questioner : Yes, you referred to that, and in another copy I found "Al-Zahiriyah" itself in the "Al-Zahiriyah" collections, an incomplete copy, and there is a copy...
The Shaykh : If you do not have anything else, keep it for yourself.
The questioner : I do not have it, but if Allah wills, we will send it to you. I want to collect it in a part and publish it. This was also a copy from "Al-Zahiriyah," "Ghayat al-Maqasid" in four volumes, which will be published if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Of course, the copy you found, the second copy, is in the author's handwriting?
The questioner : It is in the author's handwriting.
The Shaykh : Okay, what do you think, where was it lost from the book, or was it not completed, or how?
The questioner : The book was not completed. I have a study on... in Urdu and in Arabic. This one is in Urdu, so after I contacted his grandsons and great-grandsons and went to the Khudabaksh Library in "Patna" and the other libraries, I found that the author himself did not complete this commentary, as his colleagues and companions mention, but he had completed at least about one-third of the commentary, one-third of the book, and perhaps if the twenty-second part of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's division of "Sunan Abu Dawud" is where he finished his commentary, because he always refers to this part in "Awn al-Ma'bud," and the commentary and detail are in "Al-Ghayah" and so on.
And in the end, two incidents occurred, in one of which it was perhaps lost. The first was the sectarian clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the year 1946 CE, which happened in the "Patna" region and the "Bihar" region, especially in the author's village. Many Hindus and Muslims took refuge in his house to protect themselves and stayed there, and they were confined in the house for about fifteen days, or twenty days, or a month. During this period, no attention was paid to these books and other things, and they were not preserved, and some of them were actually burned as fuel; so perhaps they were lost in that, or not, because those who were in the house did not value them.
The Shaykh : Ignorant people who did not know.
The questioner : Ignorant people who did not know, and they thought these books were old and so on... because they were not printed.
The second incident was the incident of Bangladesh's independence in the year 1971 CE. There were some important books, perhaps including parts of "Ghayat al-Maqasid" as well, which "Muhammad Idris Abd al-Azim Abadi" took, and he is the son of the shaykh "Shams al-Haqq Abd al-Azim Abadi," and he kept them for a long time, so we do not know the fate of these. They were in three boxes, and we do not know where their fate lies; meaning after the year 1971 CE.
The Shaykh : Does "Muhammad Idris" have children?
The questioner : Yes, he has children, but... they all fled; some of them were killed there, possibly in this fitnah or in the first fitnah, and some parts were lost, but what we found is only three or four volumes.
The Shaykh : We ask Allah that you may be able to obtain the rest of it.
The questioner : We are looking for it in different places.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
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