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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the difference between "Stand up for your master" and "Stand up to your master"?

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The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : By Allah, I read it and made a mistake. Abu Ahmad, one does not abandon the habit, never. This hadith, O Abu Tahir, first, its narration is incorrect, because it is worded as:
Rise to your master. قوموا إلى سيدكم
and not "Stand up for your master." And no Arabized person like me, let alone an Arab like you, would doubt the difference between "Stand up for your master" and "Stand up to your master" ...

The questioner : ... the Arab

The Shaykh : Yes, "Stand up for your master" is for honoring and glorifying him, while "Stand up to your master" means to go to him to help him. Many people of knowledge and virtue make mistakes, first in narrating the hadith, and second in understanding the hadith, because if he makes a mistake in narrating the hadith, he will make a mistake in its understanding, in its indication, and they include it in the topic of standing up for other than respect, whereas it has absolutely no relation to that topic. Its relation is to helping the man about whom it was said "Stand up to him," and he was Sa'd ibn Mu'adh the Ansari. He was injured in his ankle, wounded. And the Jews at the Battle of the Trench had appointed this noble man, may Allah be pleased with him, as a judge between them and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So he ruled with the killing of their men and the enslavement of their women. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him:
from above the Seven Heavens لقد حكمت بحكم الله من فوق سبع سموات
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3213Sahih (Darussalam)
against your will, pardon your elder or the ones entrusted to you, meaning he ruled with the ruling of Allah from above the seven heavens. The point is that the time for executing the ruling came, so he came riding on a donkey, and he was sick. So he said to the Ansari, the people of his tribe:
Rise to your master. قوموا إلى سيدكم
So they dismounted him from his mount. Do you see how it is? So where is the hadith?

The questioner : Yes, there is a difference.

The Shaykh : Yes, there is a great difference.
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