Should I seek knowledge from Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan?
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The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, my brother, I tell you yes.
The questioner : Yes, the line cut off, O Shaykh. I asked you yesterday about Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan, who is a teacher at the Islamic Institute in the United Arab Emirates and has now moved to Indonesia. O Shaykh, I have a desire to go to him to seek knowledge. What do you advise me to do, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I do not advise you to do anything; I do not know him.
The questioner : You do not know Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : He was with you, O Shaykh, at the university in Madinah.
The Shaykh : Where? If he prayed with me, does that mean you knew him?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If he prayed with me, that means I knew him.
The questioner : No, O Shaykh, he studied with you at the university, the university in Madinah al-Munawwarah. He was teaching with you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : No, O Shaykh, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : O Shaykh, may Allah guide you. How old is he?
The questioner : He is old, O Shaykh. He is a scholar, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How old is he, O Shaykh?
The questioner : By Allah, I do not know his age, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : If you do not know, then do not speak of what you do not know.
The questioner : Perhaps forty-five, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. I left the university thirty years ago. May Allah guide you. So how old was he?
The questioner : By Allah, I do not know his age, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Amen.
The Shaykh : When I tell you I do not know him, you say to me, "How could he have prayed with you at the university?" He prayed with me at the university. There was no teacher there during my time named 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : It is not appropriate to say "absolute agreement" because this is a summary and does not mean expressing an opinion from al-Dhahabi. Now, this is a correction of that opinion: if he said "I said," then it is from his own head, for example. As you know, we often see that above it says "narrated by," and below it says "al-Bukhari and Muslim."The Shaykh : Under "al-Bukhari and Muslim," it says "I said," "al-Bukhari and Muslim."
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, this means that it is not attributed to al-Dhahabi that he agreed with him. If he said "I said," "al-Bukhari and Muslim," that is the meaning of the words you are quoting.
The student : Agreement.
The Shaykh : Agreement. We say either "he agreed with him" when the same words mentioned above are mentioned below, or "al-Dhahabi was silent about it," meaning he did not give a verdict on the blank space; his silence means he approved of it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This is what becomes clear to us, and the issue is not of great importance, because opinions and independent legal reasoning differ on some matters where there is no explicit text, for example, as the early scholars exerted effort regarding al-Tirmidhi's statement "a good, authentic hadith." There are many opinions, right? Because al-Tirmidhi himself did not clarify what he intended by this statement. These early scholars are, of course, more knowledgeable than the later scholars, so it is not strange that the later scholars differ on such a detail that the author himself did not specify. But without a doubt, here the matter of long and extensive practice is considered, which reveals hidden matters that do not appear to hadith scholars. If this doctor or anyone else is a beginner in this field, in any case, they have their opinion... that he did not see a smiling face. He was a judge, so a woman said to him, "It is not permissible for you to judge, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Ibn Majah 2316Sahih (Darussalam) So he smiled, hehe.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, my brother, I tell you yes.
The questioner : Yes, the line cut off, O Shaykh. I asked you yesterday about Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan, who is a teacher at the Islamic Institute in the United Arab Emirates and has now moved to Indonesia. O Shaykh, I have a desire to go to him to seek knowledge. What do you advise me to do, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I do not advise you to do anything; I do not know him.
The questioner : You do not know Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : He was with you, O Shaykh, at the university in Madinah.
The Shaykh : Where? If he prayed with me, does that mean you knew him?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If he prayed with me, that means I knew him.
The questioner : No, O Shaykh, he studied with you at the university, the university in Madinah al-Munawwarah. He was teaching with you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : No, O Shaykh, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : O Shaykh, may Allah guide you. How old is he?
The questioner : He is old, O Shaykh. He is a scholar, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How old is he, O Shaykh?
The questioner : By Allah, I do not know his age, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : If you do not know, then do not speak of what you do not know.
The questioner : Perhaps forty-five, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. I left the university thirty years ago. May Allah guide you. So how old was he?
The questioner : By Allah, I do not know his age, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Amen.
The Shaykh : When I tell you I do not know him, you say to me, "How could he have prayed with you at the university?" He prayed with me at the university. There was no teacher there during my time named 'Abd al-Rahim al-Tahan.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : It is not appropriate to say "absolute agreement" because this is a summary and does not mean expressing an opinion from al-Dhahabi. Now, this is a correction of that opinion: if he said "I said," then it is from his own head, for example. As you know, we often see that above it says "narrated by," and below it says "al-Bukhari and Muslim."The Shaykh : Under "al-Bukhari and Muslim," it says "I said," "al-Bukhari and Muslim."
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, this means that it is not attributed to al-Dhahabi that he agreed with him. If he said "I said," "al-Bukhari and Muslim," that is the meaning of the words you are quoting.
The student : Agreement.
The Shaykh : Agreement. We say either "he agreed with him" when the same words mentioned above are mentioned below, or "al-Dhahabi was silent about it," meaning he did not give a verdict on the blank space; his silence means he approved of it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This is what becomes clear to us, and the issue is not of great importance, because opinions and independent legal reasoning differ on some matters where there is no explicit text, for example, as the early scholars exerted effort regarding al-Tirmidhi's statement "a good, authentic hadith." There are many opinions, right? Because al-Tirmidhi himself did not clarify what he intended by this statement. These early scholars are, of course, more knowledgeable than the later scholars, so it is not strange that the later scholars differ on such a detail that the author himself did not specify. But without a doubt, here the matter of long and extensive practice is considered, which reveals hidden matters that do not appear to hadith scholars. If this doctor or anyone else is a beginner in this field, in any case, they have their opinion... that he did not see a smiling face. He was a judge, so a woman said to him, "It is not permissible for you to judge, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Let the judge (Qadi) not pass a judgment when he is angry.
لا يقضي القاضي بين اثنين وهو غضبان
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