How to reconcile the hadith "Grow old, grow old" with the hadith "I begin with the right"?

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly, may Allah reward you. We see that the hadith has its specific place. Perhaps you can recall with me that one of the methods of reconciling hadiths when there appears to be some contradiction between them is to place each hadith in its proper context. So, , as you recall, did it come in the context of starting with the drink or starting with the speech?

The questioner : Starting with the speech.

The Shaykh : Then place it in its proper place. In that case, the hadith of "the right one" is free from contradiction. Just as we do not use the hadith to negate the hadith , so we do not say "the right one speaks," likewise it is not permissible for others to use our hadith to negate the hadith , because each of the two hadiths has its appropriate place. This is a general statement, and its first purpose is to remove the contradiction between the two hadiths. I think this removal has been achieved, if Allah wills. Say with me, if Allah wills. Say "Ameen" as well. May Allah reward you with good.

Another questioner : Please allow me, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : We return, may Allah reward you. I do not know why the scholars do not speak about the habits of the general public and about customs and traditions, because most of them are not based on the guidance of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). But I wonder why the scholars, I do not want to say they ignore, but they overlook some explicit texts regarding certain matters and Islamic social etiquettes. They argue with this hadith and interpret the hadith by saying "he starts with the elder of the people to implement the hadith, then to his right." And they say this is supported by the fact that the one pouring started with the Messenger of Allah because he is undoubtedly the elder of the people. Here is the question: if the hadith were as in some narrations in Sahih al-Bukhari, where the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was brought milk mixed with water in a cup and he drank from it, and the rest of the hadith, and Ibn Abbas or some Bedouins were on his right and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and the elders of Quraysh were on his left, then if the hadith were like that, it would be very reasonable to say that the one pouring started with the elder of the people. But in Sahih al-Bukhari, in some narrations, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked for water. As for the first narration, if a questioner from the scholars were asked why the one pouring started with the Messenger of Allah? And he answered because he is their master and their elder. The answer would be in its place. But he cannot answer with that same answer when asked why the one pouring started with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the narration where he asked for water? The answer is because he asked for water. So, if starting with the Messenger is because he asked for water, then if the one asking for water were a child, would the Sunnah be to start with this child? Of course not, because he is the one who asked for water. So this hadith must be set aside and not mixed with the hadith . So the one pouring started with him (peace be upon him) because he requested the drink. This is first. And this means that using this hadith to negate the hadith is an error as clear as the sun in the fourth day of the week. It is not an error regarding the first narration where reconciliation is possible, but it is a clear error regarding the other narration, which is in Sahih al-Bukhari. And here I must remind you of two things. One of them is that you must have looked at my abridgment of Sahih al-Bukhari and my style in collecting narrations.

The questioner : I have a question about that.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good, and from you we benefit. This is the first thing. The second thing, did the second volume reach you?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : And you?

Another questioner : I have been reading it for days.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. The point is that this style brings the distant close for those who do not have a special study of the Sunnah. If the scholars had this study, they would not have fallen into the aforementioned error. They did not say the hadith "The Messenger of Allah was brought" is interpreted in light of , whereas if they had stopped at the addition of , the difficulty would have been resolved. And so "he asked for water" came to me in my abridgment of al-Bukhari between brackets. Clear? Now we benefit from you, what do you have?