What is the ruling on citing weak hadiths as evidence?
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The questioner : In the study curricula, meaning, they cite hadiths or bring up weak hadiths, and worse than that, more bitter, they bring up issues that touch upon 'aqidah, specifically the issue of eternal abode...
The Shaykh : ...in the Throne?
The questioner : Eternal abode.
The Shaykh : Eternal abode?
The questioner : Eternal abode in the Fire, yes. So what is our position? This is the state's methodology. Is it not a violation of the ministry's or the state's laws when we contradict them?
The Shaykh : Meaning, the curricula in your country?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It contains things that contradict the truth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It must be clarified, and it should be said to the students: this is what is in the book, and this is what the ministry has decided, but the truth is contrary to that. Clarify the truth. Do you understand?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the issue of eternal abode in the Fire is known: no one claims that the people of major sins are eternally abiding in the Fire except for two innovator sects: one is the Khawarij, and the other is the Mu'tazilah. However, the Mu'tazilah say that he is eternally abiding in the Fire, but he is not a disbeliever; rather, he is in a position between the two positions: neither a Muslim nor a disbeliever. The Khawarij explicitly state that he is a disbeliever and that his blood and wealth are lawful. Both of them have contradicted the truth. Similarly, those who oppose them from the Murji'ah, who interpret the verses of warning and their hadiths as applying to those who deem it permissible or to the disbeliever, have also deviated from the truth. The truth is that the people of major sins are under the will of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because Allah said in two verses of His Book:[An-Nisa 4:48] Allah mentioned it in Surat al-Nisa' twice. Yes.
The Shaykh : ...in the Throne?
The questioner : Eternal abode.
The Shaykh : Eternal abode?
The questioner : Eternal abode in the Fire, yes. So what is our position? This is the state's methodology. Is it not a violation of the ministry's or the state's laws when we contradict them?
The Shaykh : Meaning, the curricula in your country?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It contains things that contradict the truth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It must be clarified, and it should be said to the students: this is what is in the book, and this is what the ministry has decided, but the truth is contrary to that. Clarify the truth. Do you understand?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the issue of eternal abode in the Fire is known: no one claims that the people of major sins are eternally abiding in the Fire except for two innovator sects: one is the Khawarij, and the other is the Mu'tazilah. However, the Mu'tazilah say that he is eternally abiding in the Fire, but he is not a disbeliever; rather, he is in a position between the two positions: neither a Muslim nor a disbeliever. The Khawarij explicitly state that he is a disbeliever and that his blood and wealth are lawful. Both of them have contradicted the truth. Similarly, those who oppose them from the Murji'ah, who interpret the verses of warning and their hadiths as applying to those who deem it permissible or to the disbeliever, have also deviated from the truth. The truth is that the people of major sins are under the will of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because Allah said in two verses of His Book: