The Book of Jihad, Expeditions, and Authority-08a
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The reciter: And Yahya ibn Yahya narrated it to us, saying: Yazid ibn Zura' informed us from Yunus from al-Hasan, who said: with a narration similar to that of Abu al-Ashhab, and he added, saying: Sahih Muslim 142b.
The Shaykh : His statement, "Why did you not tell me this before today?" allows for the possibility that he had told him and he forgot, or that someone else had told him and he forgot, attributing it to him, or that neither he nor anyone else had told him, but he intended to rebuke him, saying: "How are you telling me this now when you have already told me?" So which one do we believe? We believe the Companion Ma'qil ibn Yasar. Forgetfulness is possible for both this one and that one, but it is preferable for us to attribute the possibility of forgetfulness to the non-Companion. Also, the situation necessitates this, that he does not tell him about it while he is in a state of health, lest he be subjected to it, and he be imprisoned or killed, or something similar to that.
Ibn Ziyad entered upon Ma'qil ibn Yasar while he was ill
دَخَلَ ابْنُ زِيَادٍ عَلَى مَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ وَهُوَ وَجِعٌWhy did you not narrate it to me before this day? He replied: I (in fact) did not narrate it to you as it was not (fit) for me to narrate that to you.
أَلَّا كُنْتَ حَدَّثْتَنِي هَذَا قَبْلَ الْيَوْمِ؟ قَالَ : مَا حَدَّثْتُكَ، أَوْ لَمْ أَكُنْ لِأُحَدِّثَكَThe Shaykh : His statement, "Why did you not tell me this before today?" allows for the possibility that he had told him and he forgot, or that someone else had told him and he forgot, attributing it to him, or that neither he nor anyone else had told him, but he intended to rebuke him, saying: "How are you telling me this now when you have already told me?" So which one do we believe? We believe the Companion Ma'qil ibn Yasar. Forgetfulness is possible for both this one and that one, but it is preferable for us to attribute the possibility of forgetfulness to the non-Companion. Also, the situation necessitates this, that he does not tell him about it while he is in a state of health, lest he be subjected to it, and he be imprisoned or killed, or something similar to that.