What is your opinion on reading Fath al-Bari for some beginners and the Shaykh's advice to summarize it?
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The Shaykh : ... Then present the benefits by delivering them to the people in the language they understand; as for the language of scholars and students of knowledge, they do not actually understand it. Perhaps this would be the best thing, meaning you read the hadith and make comments on it.
Al-Halabi : My method in the book is to read Fath al-Bari literally, so every term that passes, every grammatical indication, every rhetorical indication, every hadith term...
The Shaykh : No, no, you cannot bear this.
Al-Halabi : But the thing that pushed me to this statement is that the ones sitting there, I mean they wanted us to come more than once, they said we want that.
The Shaykh : It is fine, but the result is they slip away.
Al-Halabi : Yes, I told them yesterday in bold terms, I said I do not see progress from you, meaning when I explain, for example, the unfamiliar words or such things pass by.
The Shaykh : No, my lord, you need to develop your style based on the fact that you should speak to people according to their intellects.
Al-Halabi : Yesterday, after consulting with the brothers, we proposed that we study a treatise, The Creed of the Salaf, the People of Hadith, by Abu Uthman al-Sabuni.
The Shaykh: There is nothing wrong with it.
Abu Layla : That is how, our Shaykh, we accustom the students to perseverance in the gatherings of knowledge, so when this thing is light, he gets used to it.The student : He gets used to sitting, and if the level rises, our Shaykh, he will haveThe student : already gotten used to it, or like this, a surprise that surprised us in it.
Al-Halabi : My method in the book is to read Fath al-Bari literally, so every term that passes, every grammatical indication, every rhetorical indication, every hadith term...
The Shaykh : No, no, you cannot bear this.
Al-Halabi : But the thing that pushed me to this statement is that the ones sitting there, I mean they wanted us to come more than once, they said we want that.
The Shaykh : It is fine, but the result is they slip away.
Al-Halabi : Yes, I told them yesterday in bold terms, I said I do not see progress from you, meaning when I explain, for example, the unfamiliar words or such things pass by.
The Shaykh : No, my lord, you need to develop your style based on the fact that you should speak to people according to their intellects.
Al-Halabi : Yesterday, after consulting with the brothers, we proposed that we study a treatise, The Creed of the Salaf, the People of Hadith, by Abu Uthman al-Sabuni.
The Shaykh: There is nothing wrong with it.
Abu Layla : That is how, our Shaykh, we accustom the students to perseverance in the gatherings of knowledge, so when this thing is light, he gets used to it.The student : He gets used to sitting, and if the level rises, our Shaykh, he will haveThe student : already gotten used to it, or like this, a surprise that surprised us in it.
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