Is the addition of: (and His blessings) in the closing salam established?
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The Shaykh : Also, there is a second issue I would like to ask about, and I hope the students who are keen on the science of hadith and its verification or tracing to its sources will clarify this. Is the addition of "and His blessings" in the salam, in "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and His blessings" in the prayer, established? Ibn Hajar says in "al-Bulugh" that it is with a sound chain, but some of my brothers among the young hadith scholars told me that it is not sound. He said he wrote a research paper on it, and he told me this before last year, but, glory to Allah the Great, he said he would send it to me, but it did not arrive. We were in Ta'if during the course before the recent one, and he told me that he had verified it and found it not sound. I asked him to bring it to me, but we traveled before he could bring it. So we hope that the brothers who love tracing hadith will clarify this issue for us.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, but that is not sufficient. That is not enough, because Shaykh Al-Albani, may Allah always guide him, authenticates weak hadiths and weakens sound hadiths. Shaykh 'Abd al-Duwaish, may Allah have mercy on him, wrote a book on this topic regarding what Al-Albani authenticated but is weak, or what he weakened but is sound. A person is human, and every person's words are taken and left. So we hope that the brothers who clarify hadith will clarify this issue for us, because the question about it has become frequent. This is because we have heard that some of the imams say, while leading the congregation in prayer, "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and His blessings," and in the second unit he does not say "and His blessings." The common people, as you know, always comment. They say, "Why did he bring 'and His blessings' and put it in... or put it in the second place?" We want the issue to be clarified so that we can explain it to people, either by word or by deed. We do not like them to object to our brothers, the students of knowledge, who are keen to apply the hadith. We also do not want a person to rush to contradict what the scholars of the country were upon without something certain that convinces people, because contradicting the existing and deceased shaykhs without something established is not something that should be done. If it is established, then we ask forgiveness for those who overlooked it in the past. Yes, 'Abdullah.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, but that is not sufficient. That is not enough, because Shaykh Al-Albani, may Allah always guide him, authenticates weak hadiths and weakens sound hadiths. Shaykh 'Abd al-Duwaish, may Allah have mercy on him, wrote a book on this topic regarding what Al-Albani authenticated but is weak, or what he weakened but is sound. A person is human, and every person's words are taken and left. So we hope that the brothers who clarify hadith will clarify this issue for us, because the question about it has become frequent. This is because we have heard that some of the imams say, while leading the congregation in prayer, "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and His blessings," and in the second unit he does not say "and His blessings." The common people, as you know, always comment. They say, "Why did he bring 'and His blessings' and put it in... or put it in the second place?" We want the issue to be clarified so that we can explain it to people, either by word or by deed. We do not like them to object to our brothers, the students of knowledge, who are keen to apply the hadith. We also do not want a person to rush to contradict what the scholars of the country were upon without something certain that convinces people, because contradicting the existing and deceased shaykhs without something established is not something that should be done. If it is established, then we ask forgiveness for those who overlooked it in the past. Yes, 'Abdullah.