Discussion of the Book of al-Tahawi.
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The questioner : Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi
The Shaykh : This is the composition of a man from ... .
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Why didn't you say four hundred pages? What ... four hundred pages? What are you saying ... how?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This book is four hundred pages, and it is written on it that you imagined it to be the composition of a group of scholars. No, my brother, this is, unfortunately, the work of our brother Zuhayr al-Shawish in order to promote his merchandise. But whoever reads the book will know what is intended by it. The author of this book's text, as is well known, is Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi. The text is a very small treatise, and I had printed it with some simple explanations, which you may or may not have seen. It consists of about sixty or seventy pages, which you may not have seen.
The questioner : What is in it ... .
The Shaykh : Sixty or seventy pages, Professor Adnan, yes, an important explanation and commentary ... .
The questioner : So, for example ... it is al-Tahawi, but ... .
The Shaykh : Be patient, I am explaining it to you ... the doubt regarding the four scholars. The text was authored by Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi, the explanation by Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, the tracing of its hadiths by al-Albani, and Shaykh Ibn Baz has, I think, a word at the end of the book as a correction. In any case, yes.
The questioner : About seventy pages.
Another questioner: The last thing.
The Shaykh : The point is, my brother, no one participated in this book. The text is by Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi al-Hanafi, the explanation is by Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, and the tracing is by al-Albani. But this book, in terms of the subject matter, revolves around al-Tahawi and the commentator Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, and that is all. So the purpose, my brother, is that these people composed this book in their style in their time. Now, of course, this style is not only in tawhid and creed, but also in books of fiqh and books of hadith; it needs what? Renewal and development, and so on. This is not a matter of disagreement, but the whole research is that I was surprised for the first time, and from a person among us, that there is strictness on their part. I hope to see this strictness ... .
The questioner : Do you want me and you to sit and read the biography ... and I tell you the points I have ... strictness, that something is better than this.
Another questioner: Well, he said this, besides that, he said this was composed in an era of about seven hundred years.
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: Meaning it really needs simplification to suit some people or the concepts of some people in this time.
Another questioner: ... strictness ... the issue of strictness, my Shaykh, is there a reference if you permit?
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
The questioner : ... teaching
The Shaykh : This is the composition of a man from ... .
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Why didn't you say four hundred pages? What ... four hundred pages? What are you saying ... how?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This book is four hundred pages, and it is written on it that you imagined it to be the composition of a group of scholars. No, my brother, this is, unfortunately, the work of our brother Zuhayr al-Shawish in order to promote his merchandise. But whoever reads the book will know what is intended by it. The author of this book's text, as is well known, is Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi. The text is a very small treatise, and I had printed it with some simple explanations, which you may or may not have seen. It consists of about sixty or seventy pages, which you may not have seen.
The questioner : What is in it ... .
The Shaykh : Sixty or seventy pages, Professor Adnan, yes, an important explanation and commentary ... .
The questioner : So, for example ... it is al-Tahawi, but ... .
The Shaykh : Be patient, I am explaining it to you ... the doubt regarding the four scholars. The text was authored by Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi, the explanation by Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, the tracing of its hadiths by al-Albani, and Shaykh Ibn Baz has, I think, a word at the end of the book as a correction. In any case, yes.
The questioner : About seventy pages.
Another questioner: The last thing.
The Shaykh : The point is, my brother, no one participated in this book. The text is by Abu Ja‘far al-Tahawi al-Hanafi, the explanation is by Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, and the tracing is by al-Albani. But this book, in terms of the subject matter, revolves around al-Tahawi and the commentator Abu al-‘Izz al-Hanafi, and that is all. So the purpose, my brother, is that these people composed this book in their style in their time. Now, of course, this style is not only in tawhid and creed, but also in books of fiqh and books of hadith; it needs what? Renewal and development, and so on. This is not a matter of disagreement, but the whole research is that I was surprised for the first time, and from a person among us, that there is strictness on their part. I hope to see this strictness ... .
The questioner : Do you want me and you to sit and read the biography ... and I tell you the points I have ... strictness, that something is better than this.
Another questioner: Well, he said this, besides that, he said this was composed in an era of about seven hundred years.
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: Meaning it really needs simplification to suit some people or the concepts of some people in this time.
Another questioner: ... strictness ... the issue of strictness, my Shaykh, is there a reference if you permit?
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
The questioner : ... teaching