What is the meaning of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “Convey from me even if it is a single verse”?

Did you see the Messenger? Did you see the Messenger? Allahu Akbar, and the commotion among the people, and here I am trying to explain it to them. I had started with the dhikr and the regular recitations until I finished them, and I slipped away stealthily, like a thief. Half of the Shari'ah is [laughter]The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him) and I sought them (may Allah preserve them) — Subhan Allah, these people have no awareness, no manners, and no culture. They speak out of ignorance. This imam says, “Did you see the Messenger?” Poor man, he is not praying; he saw the Messenger, he did not see the Messenger. The words he directs at others come back to him. If he were asked, “What do you think he should do?” he would say, “This is what the scholars say, this is what the scholars taught us.” He would say, “According to the apparent view of our madhhab, our scholars said there is no congregation in the rain.” But other people go and say, “Our scholars said there is a congregation in the rain.” So, did the scholars who said there is no congregation in the rain see the Messenger? Did they see the Messenger? They did not see the Messenger. So the issue is one of narration. Why are you denying this means upon which all Islamic jurisprudence after the first Companions is based? All the jurisprudence of these eras is built on narration, which means that these narrators did not see the Messenger. This is deep ignorance, truly severe. A person is ashamed to come and tell you about a Muslim who steps forward to lead people in prayer, saying, “We did not see the Messenger (peace be upon him),” but the Messenger, out of his complete compassion and mercy for his Ummah, addressed them on various occasions regarding the prayer that is repeated five times a day. He said: And he said: So he knew that those who would come after him (peace be upon him) had not heard his voice or witnessed his worship and prayer. But he also knew that his Companions, who had witnessed him and seen his acts of worship, would convey them to those who would come after them. So he encouraged them to do so and said: Until he (peace be upon him) said: This word should not be understood in the technical sense of a verse from the Noble Qur'an. That is not what is intended. The intention here is the phrase “Convey from me even if it is a single phrase.” This meaning is Arabic first and jurisprudential second; because it includes a phrase from the Qur'an and from the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So the intention of this hadith is not to encourage conveying only a verse from the Noble Qur'an, but also a phrase from the hadiths of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is a practical direction from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) to the idea and belief that he presented to his Ummah in many hadiths, among which is his saying (peace be upon him): Just as it is incumbent upon the Muslim to convey the Book of Allah to the people, so it is incumbent upon the Muslim to convey the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), because each of them, the Book and the hadith, completes the other. And this is what our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) indicated in His saying: So the point is that the Muslim scholar, since the time of the Companions whom the Tabi'un met, and these Tabi'un who did not meet the Messenger, live based on this methodology, which is: If you are Companions who saw me, then [pray] as you saw me. And if you are followers after them, then [pray] as it was conveyed to you by those who saw me. And for this reason, he (peace be upon him) emphasized this in the Farewell Pilgrimage when he said: So he encouraged his Companions to receive knowledge directly from him on one hand, and on the other hand, he ordered them to convey what they took from him to the people. Especially since he (peace be upon him) said: And so it was from the favor of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) upon His believing servants who came after the Companions of the Noble Prophet that He found among them those who fulfilled this part of the hadith that I mentioned: The Companions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) numbered thousands upon thousands, but the scholars among them—meaning, the people of knowledge were unable, after research and examination, to raise their number to three hundred scholars among them. So we understand from this that the majority of the Companions were not among the people of knowledge who are permitted to separate themselves or to appoint themselves to issue fatwas to people regarding what befalls them. Rather, the majority of the Companions were from the second group, about whom our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) informed in the well-known verse: The majority of the Companions, who numbered thousands upon thousands, were from the group who do not know, and they are included in the verse that orders them to ask the people of knowledge among them. And the people of knowledge among them did not reach three hundred scholars, but, by the will of Allah, the scholars who came in the generation of the Tabi'un and after them numbered thousands upon thousands, confirming and fulfilling his saying (peace be upon him): And his other saying: This hadith and that one are among the good tidings that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) left in his Sunnah and his hadiths, so that the wheel of knowledge continues to turn and move until the day when Allah (Mighty and Majestic) sends that sweet breeze that takes the soul of every believer, and none remains on earth except the worst of creation, and upon them the Hour will be established. So it is ignorance, indeed a state of being ignorant, to address one who steps forward to lead people in prayer and say, “Did you see the Messenger?” with a rhetorical question and a state of extreme anger; because this indicates deep ignorance. As we said earlier, everyone who came after the Companions did not see the Messenger. So they do not know how to pray, they do not know how to perform all the acts of worship.