Is there a Saudi here? Unfortunately, the Saudis now represent the position of the Islamic world regarding the science of hadith.

The Shaykh : Is there a Saudi here? Unfortunately, the Saudis now represent the position of the Islamic world regarding the science of hadith. The Islamic world was asleep regarding the science of hadith and its importance; it was completely negligent. The largest university that used to study the sacred sciences was Al-Azhar University, and that is why they called it Al-Azhar al-Sharif. But how did they study hadith there? It was a superficial theoretical study, just as they studied the principles of jurisprudence. However, they did not study the two foundations: the principles of jurisprudence and the principles of hadith, in order to produce scholars who engage in independent legal reasoning and do not follow the school of jurisprudence in which they were raised or upon which they rely. It was a theoretical study, so you would find one of them, especially regarding the principles of jurisprudence, recalling what he had studied with a strong memory, but not benefiting from it.