The attack of al-Suqaf on Shaykh 'Umar al-Ashqar.
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The Shaykh : I wanted to ask you, Abu Sulayman, we were informed that this al-Suqaf responded to you?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Can you summarize for us the points he addressed?
The questioner : The first point, the first point in the response, is an accusation of distorting the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), forging it, and lying about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)!
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Because it occurred in the hadith.
Another questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And peace be upon you.
The questioner : It is written with a hā' in it. My memorization of the hadith is that it says "calls out with a voice," indeed, but when I went back to the book, I found...
The Shaykh : With a sound.
The questioner : With his voice.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : So he says that I forged the hadith of the Messenger of Allah and lied about the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, and he elaborated on this matter greatly, about two pages on this point, and he says that the correct wording in the hadith is "is called out" and not "calls out," and this is also part of the forgery. This is one. The second is the hadiths of the Ahad (singular reports).
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : An attack on the fact that the hadiths of the Ahad convey knowledge and are used as evidence. The third point is that I attributed to Imam Ahmad the book *The Response to the Zindiqs*, and this is not correct regarding Imam Ahmad. A fourth point: I cited a hadith from the hadiths, which is also the same forgery in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), because I inserted into a hadith something that is not part of it, a hadith from the authentic hadiths, just as some of the brothers who responded to him mentioned, that it is an error in the citation and not in the text of the hadith.
The Shaykh : I mean, if there is an error, the error is in the citation and not a change in the hadith. This is what I am mentioning now, but he really elaborated on the issue of forgery and lying about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)!
The Shaykh : Of course, he is fishing in muddy waters. Allah is the Greatest.
The questioner : It seems that he has devoted himself to this issue.
The Shaykh : I think, more than that, Professor, there are people behind him who support him in his transgression!
The questioner : This is correct.
The Shaykh : I think so.
The questioner : It seems that there are people who read these books who do not want to show themselves, so this is published, and they give him the notes that...
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah protect us from his evil.
The questioner : But he is also involved in a fitnah, meaning he has devoted himself to it.
The Shaykh : Yes, Allah is the Helper.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Can you summarize for us the points he addressed?
The questioner : The first point, the first point in the response, is an accusation of distorting the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), forging it, and lying about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)!
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Because it occurred in the hadith
Indeed, Allah calls out with His voice...
إن الله ينادي بصوته ...Another questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And peace be upon you.
The questioner : It is written with a hā' in it. My memorization of the hadith is that it says "calls out with a voice," indeed, but when I went back to the book, I found...
The Shaykh : With a sound.
The questioner : With his voice.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : So he says that I forged the hadith of the Messenger of Allah and lied about the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, and he elaborated on this matter greatly, about two pages on this point, and he says that the correct wording in the hadith is "is called out" and not "calls out," and this is also part of the forgery. This is one. The second is the hadiths of the Ahad (singular reports).
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : An attack on the fact that the hadiths of the Ahad convey knowledge and are used as evidence. The third point is that I attributed to Imam Ahmad the book *The Response to the Zindiqs*, and this is not correct regarding Imam Ahmad. A fourth point: I cited a hadith from the hadiths, which is also the same forgery in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), because I inserted into a hadith something that is not part of it, a hadith from the authentic hadiths, just as some of the brothers who responded to him mentioned, that it is an error in the citation and not in the text of the hadith.
The Shaykh : I mean, if there is an error, the error is in the citation and not a change in the hadith. This is what I am mentioning now, but he really elaborated on the issue of forgery and lying about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)!
The Shaykh : Of course, he is fishing in muddy waters. Allah is the Greatest.
The questioner : It seems that he has devoted himself to this issue.
The Shaykh : I think, more than that, Professor, there are people behind him who support him in his transgression!
The questioner : This is correct.
The Shaykh : I think so.
The questioner : It seems that there are people who read these books who do not want to show themselves, so this is published, and they give him the notes that...
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah protect us from his evil.
The questioner : But he is also involved in a fitnah, meaning he has devoted himself to it.
The Shaykh : Yes, Allah is the Helper.
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