The Shaykh’s discussion regarding literary figures who speak on hadith and jurisprudence without knowledge.

The Shaykh : Some literary figures criticize writers: they point out, as I mentioned earlier, that these writers think that as long as they have a flowing pen in their hand, they can go east and west, and write about everything, including jurisprudence and hadith. So they say about some of them: he says, “We have narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari,” “We have narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari.” If we say this from the perspective of Arabic literature, it is an error; it should be said, “It was narrated to us.”
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : This is a term used by the people of hadith, such as al-Nawawi and his like.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : For the passive construction: “It was narrated to us,” not “we narrated.” It was not we who narrated, but someone else who narrated. Look at the literary figures criticizing the scholars; what about these poor people!
The student : Do you see, my Shaykh, the editor I mentioned to you who worked on al-Suyuti’s *Daw’ al-Layl wa al-Nahar*? When he read it, he read it as “We have narrated,” so he said, “Al-Nawawi narrated it in Sahih al-Bukhari.”

The Shaykh: Yes.