When does a mawquf report have the ruling of a marfu' report?
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The questioner : When does a mawquf report have the ruling of a marfu' report?
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : Peace be upon you. Welcome.
The student : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The student : How are you? If Allah wills, well?
The Shaykh : When does what?
The questioner : When does a mawquf report have the ruling of a marfu' report?
The Shaykh : When it is not something said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning, but rather it is from the unseen matters.
The questioner : From the unseen matters.
The Shaykh : Yes, but it is required that it not be possible for it to be from the Isra'iliyyat, because the Isra'iliyyat found in many books of Qur'anic exegesis are from the unseen matters.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It may be from the Isra'iliyyat, so in this condition, one must pay great attention, because as they say, the rope and the stick may get mixed up. So if there is an indication in the mawquf report that it is not from the Isra'iliyyat, and it is something that is not said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning, but rather it is from the unseen matters, then it has the ruling of a marfu' report. For example, the report of Ibn 'Abbas, as in al-Hakim's al-Mustadrak, that "the Qur'an was sent down in one piece to the House of Glory in the lowest heaven, then it was sent down in portions according to events." He is speaking about what concerns the Islamic Shari'ah and about an unseen matter, and that it was in the first heaven and that there is a House of Glory in it. This cannot be said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning. It is not so if it is in a field where it can be said based on opinion, independent legal reasoning, and analogical reasoning; in that case, it does not have the ruling of a marfu' report.
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : Peace be upon you. Welcome.
The student : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The student : How are you? If Allah wills, well?
The Shaykh : When does what?
The questioner : When does a mawquf report have the ruling of a marfu' report?
The Shaykh : When it is not something said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning, but rather it is from the unseen matters.
The questioner : From the unseen matters.
The Shaykh : Yes, but it is required that it not be possible for it to be from the Isra'iliyyat, because the Isra'iliyyat found in many books of Qur'anic exegesis are from the unseen matters.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It may be from the Isra'iliyyat, so in this condition, one must pay great attention, because as they say, the rope and the stick may get mixed up. So if there is an indication in the mawquf report that it is not from the Isra'iliyyat, and it is something that is not said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning, but rather it is from the unseen matters, then it has the ruling of a marfu' report. For example, the report of Ibn 'Abbas, as in al-Hakim's al-Mustadrak, that "the Qur'an was sent down in one piece to the House of Glory in the lowest heaven, then it was sent down in portions according to events." He is speaking about what concerns the Islamic Shari'ah and about an unseen matter, and that it was in the first heaven and that there is a House of Glory in it. This cannot be said based on opinion and independent legal reasoning. It is not so if it is in a field where it can be said based on opinion, independent legal reasoning, and analogical reasoning; in that case, it does not have the ruling of a marfu' report.
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