Issue: Asking Allah for His bounty upon hearing the rooster's crow and seeking refuge in Allah from hearing the donkey's bray: Is the supplication to be made every time one hears them?

The Shaykh : There is no god but Allah... for the sake of the benefit, O Professor...
Al-Halabi : The benefit...

The Shaykh : Yes, now you have heard the rooster's crow. We used to act according to the generality of his statement (peace and blessings be upon him): . The soul would converse with this report and ask, what does it mean that every time we hear the roosters crowing, especially the second part, ? So every time we heard the roosters crowing and the donkeys braying, we would ask Allah for His bounty and seek refuge in Allah from Satan. This is a conversation of the soul, and as you know, we are not held accountable for it, praise be to Allah. Nevertheless, I would answer myself with this: . If we accept this, or as the scholars and jurists say, "When the report (athar) comes, reasoning is invalidated," and "When the river of Allah comes, the river of Ma'qil is invalidated," then we accept it. Then I address the first thought and say, my brother, if we hear the roosters crowing and ask Allah for His bounty, and the donkeys braying and seek refuge in Allah from the evil of Satan, this is a remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), now and then. Why do we deny this, while we do not deny the Sufis who sit in circles of remembrance and say "Allah, Allah, Allah" dozens, or even hundreds, of times? Those who do not deny this are even less likely to deny this, especially since there is a text for this, whereas there is no text for that. This is how we have spent all these years with the concept of the hadith. I am now in the process of my old project concerning bringing the Sunnah closer to the people, and among that project which I mentioned to you while we were coming in the car is dividing the books of the Sunnah into authentic and weak. It was part of my plan to work on al-Bukhari's al-Adab al-Mufrad, and I started this about twenty years ago because I said I would give lessons from it to the women in Damascus. Naturally, I would not give a lesson unless I had scrutinized the hadith, so if it was authentic or at least good, I would annotate it accordingly. What Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) facilitates that is appropriate for the occasion, I have now resumed this project and reached this hadith and the hadith in al-Adab al-Mufrad with the addition "at night," , and in one wording, . The hadith in the two Sahihs does not have this addition, so it is possible that it is anomalous, and it is possible that it is denounced. So you must engage in the research and verification that you have dedicated yourself to. I began the research and saw something amazing, and I asked myself how the compilers of the two Sahihs passed over this addition? Indeed, how did al-Hakim not include this addition in his al-Mustadrak? And how did Ibn Hibban not report it in his Sahih, when it is in the Musnad alone from the route of two trustworthy narrators with this addition, and it is also outside the Musnad? From that, I conducted a research in pages which I deposited in the Series of Authentic Hadiths, number three thousand and one hundred and about eighty, and I concluded with the result that that question I was asking myself now, I got the answer to it, because the hadith with the most narrations is the one narrated by the trustworthy narrators with the addition "at night." So, as I understand from the Sunnah now, when I hear the rooster's crow, I do not act as I used to act previously, because a restriction has come. As you all know, the absolute ruling remains absolute unless something comes to restrict it. But since its restriction has come, it is not permissible to revert to the absolute, because the restricted remains restricted and the absolute remains absolute. It is not permissible to make absolute what the Lawgiver has restricted, just as it is not permissible to restrict what the Lawgiver has made absolute. I wanted to mention this to you so that perhaps we may benefit from it, and knowledge is through study. Please. What Allah willed, you are smelling the scent of these citrus fruits, it is starting to open up, what Allah willed.
Abu Layla : Allahu Akbar. I told you yesterday, my Shaykh, I called our brother Taha 'Asfar on your date. When you spoke, meaning after you spoke about the passing of our brother Jamil al-Rahman (may Allah have mercy on him), I had written the date in the Gregorian calendar and it escaped me to write it in the Hijri calendar. I was reorganizing the tape anew, so even with this tape, your last words that you spoke yesterday are consistent with this tape, so that you have the speech that you spoke previously and before the incident... the date is the seventh as well.

The Shaykh: Good.
Abu Layla : And I put the date following the day before yesterday with our brothers from Bahrain.

The Shaykh : Okay. Allah is the Helper, Allah is the Helper.