A question from some questioners regarding the authenticity of a hadith?
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The questioner : Regarding the sutrah... that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would take a sutrah, but he would not stand firmly against it?
The Shaykh : This is not authentic; it is weak. This is found in the weak narrations of Abu Dawud's Sunan. I have it, and if Allah wills, you will see it before my passing...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : First, I have not actually finished it, but I have volumes that need to be printed. There is no opportunity for printing in the country, as they say in Syria, "They have sent us away". The book could take two years, two and a half years, and it has been like that until now. The abridgment of al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyyah is a part, meaning two hundred or two hundred and fifty pages, and it will become three years. What is this situation!!
Another questioner: The delay of the printing presses?
The Shaykh : Yes... and ignorance. These new printing presses do not have people who are experienced and skilled in them, so they learn at our expense and at our cost, and then we have to teach them.
The Shaykh : This is not authentic; it is weak. This is found in the weak narrations of Abu Dawud's Sunan. I have it, and if Allah wills, you will see it before my passing...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : First, I have not actually finished it, but I have volumes that need to be printed. There is no opportunity for printing in the country, as they say in Syria, "They have sent us away". The book could take two years, two and a half years, and it has been like that until now. The abridgment of al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyyah is a part, meaning two hundred or two hundred and fifty pages, and it will become three years. What is this situation!!
Another questioner: The delay of the printing presses?
The Shaykh : Yes... and ignorance. These new printing presses do not have people who are experienced and skilled in them, so they learn at our expense and at our cost, and then we have to teach them.