What is the final ruling on describing a narrator who selects among his shaykhs? Does this remove the obscurity of the specific shaykh, or does it remove the obscurity of his condition?
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The questioner : Also, this is one of the issues you have previously answered. It is when one of the shaykhs described as selecting among his shaykhs speaks. You spoke about the one mentioned whose shaykhs are trustworthy, but the final ruling did not appear to me from you regarding the one described only as selecting among his shaykhs. Does this remove the obscurity of the specific shaykh, or the obscurity of his condition, or what?
The Shaykh : Naturally, your question would make him trustworthy.
The questioner : My question was whether it is obligatory for the shaykh to be trustworthy.
The Shaykh : Yes, meaning like the shaykhs of Haris, about whom it was said that he does not narrate except from a trustworthy narrator. I answered that the one about whom it is said he does not narrate except from a trustworthy narrator has trustworthy shaykhs, unless contradicted, as we also said.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Explicitly, as for the one who selects, this does not mean authentication, because you know, and perhaps this is the answer that removes the difficulty, if Allah wills, that there are many narrators in the men of the two Sahihs about whom criticism was made by othersThe Shaykh : who answers regarding the narrationThe Shaykh : about such these who make an effort that they select. This does not mean that he is trustworthy with him, like those trustworthy ones whose narrations are rejected categorically because they are among the trustworthy ones with them. Here, they select from one of them. So selection does not mean that he is trustworthy with them, like the one about whom it is said he is trustworthy, either explicitly or by rule.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you. In the work of the author of the Sahih, this is selection from the narration of the narrator. And my question is about selection among the shaykhs: he does not narrate from an unknown person, he is described as not narrating from an unknown person, he does not narrate from an abandoned narrator, he does not narrate from a liar, meaning he does not narrate from everyone. This is what I mean regarding the narrators, not the hadiths. In my question, I mean regarding the narrators, not the hadiths. So, for example, if one is alone in narrating, like Shu'bah, and they said that Shu'bah selects, and Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal are described as selecting, would it be the case that if one of these, or one of their like in this regard, narrates alone from one narrator, who narrated from his shaykh, would he be an unknown person specifically, or an unknown person in condition, or as I see many of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in al-Taqrib saying "acceptable"? So what is the ruling on him?
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not have a specific answer for this if you mean this.
The questioner : This is what I mean, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do not have a specific answer for this.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He bless you.
The questioner : Also.
The Shaykh : Naturally, your question would make him trustworthy.
The questioner : My question was whether it is obligatory for the shaykh to be trustworthy.
The Shaykh : Yes, meaning like the shaykhs of Haris, about whom it was said that he does not narrate except from a trustworthy narrator. I answered that the one about whom it is said he does not narrate except from a trustworthy narrator has trustworthy shaykhs, unless contradicted, as we also said.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Explicitly, as for the one who selects, this does not mean authentication, because you know, and perhaps this is the answer that removes the difficulty, if Allah wills, that there are many narrators in the men of the two Sahihs about whom criticism was made by othersThe Shaykh : who answers regarding the narrationThe Shaykh : about such these who make an effort that they select. This does not mean that he is trustworthy with him, like those trustworthy ones whose narrations are rejected categorically because they are among the trustworthy ones with them. Here, they select from one of them. So selection does not mean that he is trustworthy with them, like the one about whom it is said he is trustworthy, either explicitly or by rule.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you. In the work of the author of the Sahih, this is selection from the narration of the narrator. And my question is about selection among the shaykhs: he does not narrate from an unknown person, he is described as not narrating from an unknown person, he does not narrate from an abandoned narrator, he does not narrate from a liar, meaning he does not narrate from everyone. This is what I mean regarding the narrators, not the hadiths. In my question, I mean regarding the narrators, not the hadiths. So, for example, if one is alone in narrating, like Shu'bah, and they said that Shu'bah selects, and Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal are described as selecting, would it be the case that if one of these, or one of their like in this regard, narrates alone from one narrator, who narrated from his shaykh, would he be an unknown person specifically, or an unknown person in condition, or as I see many of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in al-Taqrib saying "acceptable"? So what is the ruling on him?
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not have a specific answer for this if you mean this.
The questioner : This is what I mean, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do not have a specific answer for this.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He bless you.
The questioner : Also.
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