A mawquf report from Abu Hurayrah regarding placing the hands before the knees in prayer, Shaykh Ibn Baz’s position on it, and Shaykh Al-Albani’s remarks on some books of Gharib al-Hadith
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The questioner : The Shaykh : Abdul Aziz, when a mawquf report from Abu Hurayrah was presented to him with a sound chain, transmitted by al-Sarqasti in Gharib al-Hadith, Abu Hurayrah said:
The Shaykh : Gharib al-Hadith, by whom?
The questioner : By al-Sarqasti.
The Shaykh : This Andalusian scholar is good.
The questioner : I presented it to him with the sound chain. I was discussing it with him in a calm session like this, and no one else was present in Ta’if. We spoke about the issue of placing the knees before the hands. I said to him, “The narrator, O Shaykh, I know his narrations, and this is an established rule. It is established from Abu Hurayrah with a sound chain, there with Imam al-Sarqasti: ‘When one of you prostrates, let him not prostrate as the stray camel prostrates.’”
The Shaykh : “Stray” is not in the hadith.
The questioner : “Let him not kneel as the camel kneels.” This is a mawquf statement from Abu Hurayrah: “Let him place his hands first, then his knees.” So he said:The Shaykh : Abdul Aziz said it was strange. He said the issue needs to be looked into. At first, he would issue a ruling on it, but then he said it needs to be examined.
The Shaykh : We ask Allah to guide us and him to know the truth in what people differ on. Al-Sarqasti’s book has not yet been printed; it is still a manuscript. Among its curiosities is that one volume is in the Zahiriyah Library and the other is in the Andalus Library in Spain. It is incumbent upon the publishers to collect it, and this is easy today because photography brings the distant near. It is a very valuable book because it contains chains of narration first, and his rank is high because he was a student of Imam al-Nasa’i, so he narrates directly from him. Yes, indeed. Then its merit is that he wrote Gharib al-Hadith, most of which do not have chains for their hadiths. Yes, indeed. And they focus on the rare words because their work is only related to the language; it does not matter if the hadith is sound or not. Whereas this Imam narrates every narration he transmits, whether it is mawquf or marfu’, with the chain, so the researcher can determine if it is sound or not. Likewise, Gharib al-Hadith by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, but not to this extent. He sometimes narrates with chains and sometimes with fragments or disconnected reports or similar things. Welcome, how are you? I hope you are well. Welcome.
The Shaykh : Gharib al-Hadith, by whom?
The questioner : By al-Sarqasti.
The Shaykh : This Andalusian scholar is good.
The questioner : I presented it to him with the sound chain. I was discussing it with him in a calm session like this, and no one else was present in Ta’if. We spoke about the issue of placing the knees before the hands. I said to him, “The narrator, O Shaykh, I know his narrations, and this is an established rule. It is established from Abu Hurayrah with a sound chain, there with Imam al-Sarqasti: ‘When one of you prostrates, let him not prostrate as the stray camel prostrates.’”
The Shaykh : “Stray” is not in the hadith.
The questioner : “Let him not kneel as the camel kneels.” This is a mawquf statement from Abu Hurayrah: “Let him place his hands first, then his knees.” So he said:The Shaykh : Abdul Aziz said it was strange. He said the issue needs to be looked into. At first, he would issue a ruling on it, but then he said it needs to be examined.
The Shaykh : We ask Allah to guide us and him to know the truth in what people differ on. Al-Sarqasti’s book has not yet been printed; it is still a manuscript. Among its curiosities is that one volume is in the Zahiriyah Library and the other is in the Andalus Library in Spain. It is incumbent upon the publishers to collect it, and this is easy today because photography brings the distant near. It is a very valuable book because it contains chains of narration first, and his rank is high because he was a student of Imam al-Nasa’i, so he narrates directly from him. Yes, indeed. Then its merit is that he wrote Gharib al-Hadith, most of which do not have chains for their hadiths. Yes, indeed. And they focus on the rare words because their work is only related to the language; it does not matter if the hadith is sound or not. Whereas this Imam narrates every narration he transmits, whether it is mawquf or marfu’, with the chain, so the researcher can determine if it is sound or not. Likewise, Gharib al-Hadith by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, but not to this extent. He sometimes narrates with chains and sometimes with fragments or disconnected reports or similar things. Welcome, how are you? I hope you are well. Welcome.
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