Discussion of 'Umar al-Ashqar's opinion on fasting on Saturday
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The Shaykh: He gave us a greater reward than those who fasted...
The questioner: ...'Umar al-Ashqar said this came up incidentally; what do you have to say about it?
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest, how did it come up incidentally?
The questioner: We asked about Friday... he had alerted me to the issue, I asked him... he prays with us in the mosque... he said there is nothing wrong with it.
Another questioner: Is he here now?
Another questioner : ..
The Shaykh: Do you mean 'Umar or his brother Muhammad?
The questioner: 'Umar.
The Shaykh: 'Umar.
The questioner: Abu Sulayman.
The Shaykh: We had a discussion with his brother Muhammad.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And he is here.
The questioner: And here.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Yes, he came the first time, I came with him.
The Shaykh: Now he is saying the same thing, he is saying the same words.
The questioner: Their argument is that it did not come up incidentally.
Another questioner: He is taking from him...
The questioner: No, is he here?
Another questioner: He came, especially since he said he came to this mosque specifically.
Another questioner: ...they did not see them.
Another questioner: May Allah guide you.
Another questioner: Then he muddled his words, he spoke, I heard his words... of course, I did not hear his lesson... he says about these people, he says about fasting on Saturday that it is prohibited, he threw his knowledge in the trash...
The Shaykh: Yes...
The questioner: Do you know him, my Shaykh?
Another questioner: The Shaykh knows him well.
The Shaykh: He once claimed that Shaykh Al-Albani was his Shaykh.
The questioner: Yes, we are coming for Hajj this year...
Another questioner: ...meaning there is a doubt in the hadith... a scholar firmly established in knowledge, any one of us or any other person might hear the words and might be convinced by them, but only if a scholar firmly established in knowledge points out the doubt in the hadith, then a person might benefit...
Another questioner: Every person is according to his knowledge.
Another questioner: We ask Allah - Mighty and Majestic - for pardon and well-being for us and for him.
The questioner: Amen...
Another questioner: ...but I know that well, meaning... the Shaykh clarified it, meaning in many books, in the second volume of Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir the Shaykh spoke on the authenticity of the hadith and he also spoke on it in the first volume of Sahih al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib.
Another questioner: He is according to what he has...
The questioner: By Allah, in the hadith there is a form of exaggeration.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner :As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 13:356 .
The Shaykh: It cannot be more eloquent than this.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The questioner: ...'Umar al-Ashqar said this came up incidentally; what do you have to say about it?
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest, how did it come up incidentally?
The questioner: We asked about Friday... he had alerted me to the issue, I asked him... he prays with us in the mosque... he said there is nothing wrong with it.
Another questioner: Is he here now?
Another questioner : ..
The Shaykh: Do you mean 'Umar or his brother Muhammad?
The questioner: 'Umar.
The Shaykh: 'Umar.
The questioner: Abu Sulayman.
The Shaykh: We had a discussion with his brother Muhammad.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And he is here.
The questioner: And here.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Yes, he came the first time, I came with him.
The Shaykh: Now he is saying the same thing, he is saying the same words.
The questioner: Their argument is that it did not come up incidentally.
Another questioner: He is taking from him...
The questioner: No, is he here?
Another questioner: He came, especially since he said he came to this mosque specifically.
Another questioner: ...they did not see them.
Another questioner: May Allah guide you.
Another questioner: Then he muddled his words, he spoke, I heard his words... of course, I did not hear his lesson... he says about these people, he says about fasting on Saturday that it is prohibited, he threw his knowledge in the trash...
The Shaykh: Yes...
The questioner: Do you know him, my Shaykh?
Another questioner: The Shaykh knows him well.
The Shaykh: He once claimed that Shaykh Al-Albani was his Shaykh.
The questioner: Yes, we are coming for Hajj this year...
Another questioner: ...meaning there is a doubt in the hadith... a scholar firmly established in knowledge, any one of us or any other person might hear the words and might be convinced by them, but only if a scholar firmly established in knowledge points out the doubt in the hadith, then a person might benefit...
Another questioner: Every person is according to his knowledge.
Another questioner: We ask Allah - Mighty and Majestic - for pardon and well-being for us and for him.
The questioner: Amen...
Another questioner: ...but I know that well, meaning... the Shaykh clarified it, meaning in many books, in the second volume of Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir the Shaykh spoke on the authenticity of the hadith and he also spoke on it in the first volume of Sahih al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib.
Another questioner: He is according to what he has...
The questioner: By Allah, in the hadith there is a form of exaggeration.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner :
Even if one of you finds nothing but a grape stem or the bark of a tree, let him chew it
حتى لو لم يَجِدْ أحدكم إلا عود عنب أو لحاء شجرة فليمضَغْهThe Shaykh: It cannot be more eloquent than this.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
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