Explanation of the Book of Fitnahs and Rulings-03a
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The reciter: Abdan narrated to us from Abu Hamzah from al-A'mash from Shaqiq ibn Sulama: Sahih al-Bukhari 7105, 7106, 7107.
The Shaykh : To please them, for both opinions are contradictory; they are blaming him for his haste, and he is blaming them for their slowness. And what brings about reconciliation is better. The important thing is that a great fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) occurred. A person who fears for himself from making a mistake should not read what happened. And a person who preserves himself and knows the matter as it is, and that what happened was due to ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), but the one who erred has one reward and the one who is correct has two rewards. And we know that the one who interprets (ta'wil), even if he kills a soul without right, is between two rewards or one reward. And here is Usamah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) who killed the polytheist man who said, "There is no god but Allah," when Usamah caught up with him and killed him. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: So ijtihad has its status, and transgression has another status. And we know that 'A'ishah and those with her, like Talhah and al-Zubayr and others, did not rise except to defend what they thought was obligatory upon them. So what happened of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) happened, and what happened of evil happened. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, tests the community, its first and last, with such a test, as 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said.
I was sitting with Abu Mas`ud and Abu Musa and `Ammar. Abu Mas`ud said (to `Ammar), "There is none of your companions but, if I wish, I could find fault with him except with you. Since you joined the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) I have never seen anything done by you more criticizable by me than your haste in this issue." `Ammar said, O Abu Mas`ud ! I have never seen anything done by you or by this companion of yours (i.e., Abu Musa) more criticizable by me than your keeping away from this issue since the time you both joined the company of the Prophet." Then Abu Mas`ud who was a rich man, said (to his servant), "O boy! Bring two suits." Then he gave one to Abu Musa and the other to `Ammar and said (to them), "Put on these suits before going for the Friday prayer. "
كنت جالسًا مع أبي مسعود وأبي موسى وعمار فقال أبو مسعود: ما من أصحابك أحد إلا لو شئت لقلت فيه غيرك وما رأيت منك شيئًا منذ صحبت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أعيب عندي من استسراعك في هذا الأمر ، قال عمار : يا أبا مسعود وما رأيت منك ولا من صاحبك هذا شيئًا منذ صحبتما النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أعيب عندي من إبطائكما في هذا الأمر، فقال أبو مسعود: وكان موسرًا : يا غلام هات حلتين فأعطى إحداهما أبا موسى والأخرى عمارًا وقال روحا فيه إلى الجمعةThe Shaykh : To please them, for both opinions are contradictory; they are blaming him for his haste, and he is blaming them for their slowness. And what brings about reconciliation is better. The important thing is that a great fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) occurred. A person who fears for himself from making a mistake should not read what happened. And a person who preserves himself and knows the matter as it is, and that what happened was due to ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), but the one who erred has one reward and the one who is correct has two rewards. And we know that the one who interprets (ta'wil), even if he kills a soul without right, is between two rewards or one reward. And here is Usamah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) who killed the polytheist man who said, "There is no god but Allah," when Usamah caught up with him and killed him. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: