He was asked about the abridgment of Sahih al-Bukhari by Shaykh al-Albani.
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The questioner : It is a question about Sahih al-Bukhari; the abridgment of Sahih al-Bukhari has not yet been completed.
The Shaykh : Right now, the third volume is being printed.
The questioner : Yes, is the last volume the third one?
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : This is the question I had, and it is of the same size.
The Shaykh : Yes, of the same size.
Al-Halabi : Shaykh, after the third, is there another? The question is whether it will be completed with the third.
The Shaykh : I think yes, the third.
Al-Halabi : No, there is a fourth, Shaykh. Allah knows best. The last one grew larger than its size, so a fourth volume resulted. This is what I know for certain.
The Shaykh : By Allah, what is in my mind is that it is three volumes.
Al-Halabi : That was your original idea, method, and approach, but the last volume was huge, so you decided to separate it.
The Shaykh : It may be so. The important thing is that it is being printed, in any case.
The questioner : The important thing is that it is from before you.
The Shaykh : I have been in Sham for a long time with this.
The questioner : And I mentioned the circumstances and the subject.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The questioner : And what about Sahih Muslim?
The Shaykh : Unfortunately, Sahih Muslim is lost.
The questioner : And up to now?
The Shaykh : Up to now, and I think it is preserved by some people, and Allah knows best. Recently, I came across some takhrij (tracing of hadiths) referring to the abridgment of Sahih Muslim, number three thousand and so on. It occurred to me that the intended work is al-Mundhiri’s abridgment.
For it to be number three thousand, it must be an error. I went back to search for the hadith in the abridgment and did not find it. Then I remembered that this is my abridgment.
Al-Halabi : In Sahih al-Jami', there are two or three places I have come across.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not remember now except automatically that yesterday or the day before yesterday I found this reference.
The questioner : Yes, correct, meaning the first one is two thousand or just that?
Al-Halabi : This is the abridgment of Muslim by the Shaykh.
The questioner : I tell you, the first abridgment is only two thousand and two hundred.
Al-Halabi : Do you mean al-Mundhiri’s abridgment?
The questioner : Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : Al-Mundhiri’s is less than two thousand; it did not reach two thousand. No, no, it did not reach, it did not exceed two thousand; it is one thousand nine hundred and a little, one thousand nine hundred and a few.
The questioner : Okay, does the mere existence of the number indicate that it is...?
The Shaykh : Yes, the intended one. May Allah reward you. You raised my spirits and then weakened them when you said you had a question about it. I thought it was a scholarly question from which we would benefit, and then you...
The questioner : I benefited from this.
The Shaykh : And then you ask...
The questioner : I am eager, O Shaykh, for...
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, it is correct, but...
Al-Halabi : The benefit or lack thereof, O our Shaykh, is relative, as is not hidden from you.
The Shaykh : Relative, no.
Abu Layla : O our Shaykh, you can rest for an hour. We will go pray and come back to you. By the two [prayers], you will be sitting and resting a bit.
The Shaykh : Okay, but can you catch the prayer now?
Abu Layla : If Allah wills, we are leaving now. The young men will make a trip.
The Shaykh : This man knows...The Shaykh : and calls for dye quickly so that it does not fade, and therefore he thinks about his old age, which requires him to rest.
Abu Layla : May Allah bless your life, O our Shaykh.
Al-Halabi : At the beginning of the research, a matter occurred. I want to speak with...The Shaykh : .
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : A matter regarding the research and the indexes occurred, and sometimes some hadiths before these indexes, you would spend hours in them. But there is a similar case, O our Shaykh, about a year or a year and a half ago. Some of your indexes occurred, and you spent about five days, with their nights except for little rest, researching a hadith. It is the hadith that was raised here among us during the Gulf Fitnah, which is the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As Ibn Asakir.
The Shaykh : Ibn Asakir, yes.
Al-Halabi : SoThe Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. The hadith was attributed to Kanz al-‘Umal by Ibn Asakir, and people and preachers transmitted it as being from Ibn Asakir, until they counted it as one of the beliefs of this hadith.The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. He followed Ibn Asakir from the first volume to the second to the third, and it is a manuscript and tiring, until he reached, I think, the sixth or seventh, in five days, searching for this hadith only. He devoted five days to this hadith and did not find it. Do you understand? It is clear that the hadith is very weak, and he spoke about it, and it is mawquf (stopping at a Companion).
The Shaykh : How?
The Shaykh : Right now, the third volume is being printed.
The questioner : Yes, is the last volume the third one?
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : This is the question I had, and it is of the same size.
The Shaykh : Yes, of the same size.
Al-Halabi : Shaykh, after the third, is there another? The question is whether it will be completed with the third.
The Shaykh : I think yes, the third.
Al-Halabi : No, there is a fourth, Shaykh. Allah knows best. The last one grew larger than its size, so a fourth volume resulted. This is what I know for certain.
The Shaykh : By Allah, what is in my mind is that it is three volumes.
Al-Halabi : That was your original idea, method, and approach, but the last volume was huge, so you decided to separate it.
The Shaykh : It may be so. The important thing is that it is being printed, in any case.
The questioner : The important thing is that it is from before you.
The Shaykh : I have been in Sham for a long time with this.
The questioner : And I mentioned the circumstances and the subject.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The questioner : And what about Sahih Muslim?
The Shaykh : Unfortunately, Sahih Muslim is lost.
The questioner : And up to now?
The Shaykh : Up to now, and I think it is preserved by some people, and Allah knows best. Recently, I came across some takhrij (tracing of hadiths) referring to the abridgment of Sahih Muslim, number three thousand and so on. It occurred to me that the intended work is al-Mundhiri’s abridgment.
For it to be number three thousand, it must be an error. I went back to search for the hadith in the abridgment and did not find it. Then I remembered that this is my abridgment.
Al-Halabi : In Sahih al-Jami', there are two or three places I have come across.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not remember now except automatically that yesterday or the day before yesterday I found this reference.
The questioner : Yes, correct, meaning the first one is two thousand or just that?
Al-Halabi : This is the abridgment of Muslim by the Shaykh.
The questioner : I tell you, the first abridgment is only two thousand and two hundred.
Al-Halabi : Do you mean al-Mundhiri’s abridgment?
The questioner : Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : Al-Mundhiri’s is less than two thousand; it did not reach two thousand. No, no, it did not reach, it did not exceed two thousand; it is one thousand nine hundred and a little, one thousand nine hundred and a few.
The questioner : Okay, does the mere existence of the number indicate that it is...?
The Shaykh : Yes, the intended one. May Allah reward you. You raised my spirits and then weakened them when you said you had a question about it. I thought it was a scholarly question from which we would benefit, and then you...
The questioner : I benefited from this.
The Shaykh : And then you ask...
The questioner : I am eager, O Shaykh, for...
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, it is correct, but...
Al-Halabi : The benefit or lack thereof, O our Shaykh, is relative, as is not hidden from you.
The Shaykh : Relative, no.
Abu Layla : O our Shaykh, you can rest for an hour. We will go pray and come back to you. By the two [prayers], you will be sitting and resting a bit.
The Shaykh : Okay, but can you catch the prayer now?
Abu Layla : If Allah wills, we are leaving now. The young men will make a trip.
The Shaykh : This man knows...The Shaykh : and calls for dye quickly so that it does not fade, and therefore he thinks about his old age, which requires him to rest.
Abu Layla : May Allah bless your life, O our Shaykh.
Al-Halabi : At the beginning of the research, a matter occurred. I want to speak with...The Shaykh : .
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : A matter regarding the research and the indexes occurred, and sometimes some hadiths before these indexes, you would spend hours in them. But there is a similar case, O our Shaykh, about a year or a year and a half ago. Some of your indexes occurred, and you spent about five days, with their nights except for little rest, researching a hadith. It is the hadith that was raised here among us during the Gulf Fitnah, which is the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As
And birds are cast upon them, and patience is cast upon them
ويقذف عليهم الطير ويقذف عليهم الصبرThe Shaykh : Ibn Asakir, yes.
Al-Halabi : SoThe Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. The hadith was attributed to Kanz al-‘Umal by Ibn Asakir, and people and preachers transmitted it as being from Ibn Asakir, until they counted it as one of the beliefs of this hadith.The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. He followed Ibn Asakir from the first volume to the second to the third, and it is a manuscript and tiring, until he reached, I think, the sixth or seventh, in five days, searching for this hadith only. He devoted five days to this hadith and did not find it. Do you understand? It is clear that the hadith is very weak, and he spoke about it, and it is mawquf (stopping at a Companion).
The Shaykh : How?
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