Continuation of the Explanation of the Hadith on the Eclipse
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The Reciter: Fatimah told me, and I committed it to memory, except that she mentioned what was difficult for him.
The Shaykh : This refers to what he said: "I heard people saying something, so I said, 'Hisham forgot,' except that he mentioned that it was difficult for him." And what came in the hadith is that he is struck with an iron rod, and he lets out a scream that is heard by everything except humans and jinn.
The point of this is his saying: The phrase "Amma ba'd" (As for what follows) is a term used by the Arabs in their sermons when a person wants to move to the main topic after the praise and eulogy. He says "Amma ba'd." Some scholars stated that it is used to transition from one style to another, but this is not correct, because we find that sermons transition from one style to another, from a command to a prohibition, from a report to a question, and the like, without using "Amma ba'd." Rather, "Amma ba'd" is used when? To enter the main topic. A person speaks with an introductory sermon and then says "Amma ba'd."
As for its grammatical parsing, its parsing is strange. What do you expect in its parsing? They say its parsing is based on estimation: "Whatever may be the case after, then the answer follows." For example, "Amma ba'd, there is no matter..." The hadith contains a difficulty, but "Amma ba'd, the best of speech is the Book of Allah." This is the hadith of Jabir regarding sermons. "Amma ba'd, the best of speech is the Book of Allah," meaning whatever may be the case after what I have said, I say so and so. It is as if he is saying, "I will not say anything after this introduction except so and so." On this basis, "Amma" takes the place of a conditional particle and a deleted conditional verb, and "ba'd" is a temporal adverb that requires a connection, connected to a deleted phrase estimated as: "Whatever may be the case." This is what the grammarians said, and Allah knows best whether this is correct or not?
The Shaykh : This refers to what he said: "I heard people saying something, so I said, 'Hisham forgot,' except that he mentioned that it was difficult for him." And what came in the hadith is that he is struck with an iron rod, and he lets out a scream that is heard by everything except humans and jinn.
The point of this is his saying:
As for what follows,
أما بعدAs for its grammatical parsing, its parsing is strange. What do you expect in its parsing? They say its parsing is based on estimation: "Whatever may be the case after, then the answer follows." For example, "Amma ba'd, there is no matter..." The hadith contains a difficulty, but "Amma ba'd, the best of speech is the Book of Allah." This is the hadith of Jabir regarding sermons. "Amma ba'd, the best of speech is the Book of Allah," meaning whatever may be the case after what I have said, I say so and so. It is as if he is saying, "I will not say anything after this introduction except so and so." On this basis, "Amma" takes the place of a conditional particle and a deleted conditional verb, and "ba'd" is a temporal adverb that requires a connection, connected to a deleted phrase estimated as: "Whatever may be the case." This is what the grammarians said, and Allah knows best whether this is correct or not?