Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Fabricating a Hadith or Lying about the Prophet (S) (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)
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The speakers discuss the importance of identifying narratives in various narratives, including the Hanahahah and the Newahahah, as it is centered around a deity or person. They stress the need to verify sources and be careful with the use of negative narratives. The speakers also touch on the concept of " reliable" and the difference between these concepts, emphasizing caution in the use of these narratives.
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The next Hadith again is a very popular narration that's mentioned
it's one of those which are considered to be motivated.
Continuously narrated from us all allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
over the generations through numerous
chains, numerous Sahaba men kadaga Allah Yamata ammidon Forget about
what Nakada who Mina now, whoever intentionally lies about me should
take his seat in hellfire
Buhari and Muslim, so they should know for themselves that they've
done such a bad deed they should just be prepared to go to the
hellfire.
And the reason for that is very clear. Our Deen revolves around
Rasulullah sallallahu It was simple. If it wasn't for him, we
would not be guided because the Quran that came to him, it's the
words of Allah subhanaw taala but it was revealed to the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam and all the explanation that he has
provided an older has provided an all the other Quran, the Hadith,
the Sunnah, that he has demonstrated, and one of the
explanations that he has provided the guidance that he has given,
what are those from us, all of us have Allahu alayhi wa sallam. So
if anybody is then saying that oh Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said
this, or there's a narration in which it says this from Rasulullah
sallallahu they're making something up for whether it's for
pious gain or for any reason a fabrication is a fabrication. The
Rasul Allah says, he should just consider that he's got to sit in
the Hellfire
because it is when a person attributes falsely to Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam even if he thinks is for a pious end, it's
just you do not do that. The reason is that everything was sort
of lost that allows him said as Allah says in the Quran, in her
Illa wagon you have it's a way that Allah subhanho wa Taala it's
a way that is being revealed to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Ma Yun dico Anil Hawa, he does not speak just out of his
whims and desires. Everything he says when it's related to the deen
is from Allah subhana wa Tada. So if we're saying that the province
of Allah Himself said this, or this, about this, or that, then we
are essentially saying that Allah said this, and this is what Allah
wants. So it is both an aggression and a violation against the rights
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and also the rights of
Allah subhanaw taala. Now you can imagine that if a person is
committing a falsehood against or attributing falsehood to Allah
subhanaw taala, that he did this or he said this, whereas he
didn't, you can imagine the sin for that. And one of the main
reasons for this is
when a person lies, this is not a personal deed that they're doing.
It isn't the harms of it are not restricted to themselves, because
clearly they are lying to others. What this is not referring and
this would be far fetched, for it to be taken to mean that a person
is lying to himself that oh Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said
this to himself, that will be a different story. That's where the
shebang overcomes a person a person enters into doing better
and innovations, reprehensible innovations, this is clearly
speaking about conveying to others something that Rasulullah
sallallahu did not say, making up something like that, that is what
that does, then is you are then spreading falsehoods, you are
giving a distorted understanding of the D you are providing
something which you know, that is totally wrong.
Now, if somebody mistakenly does this is her narration from
someone, and he thought the person was reliable, and he passed it on,
then clearly there, there wouldn't be that would be an excuse. But a
person needs to be careful needs to be very careful before relating
narrations, especially those ones. Having said that, every time you
get a text message, or an email one of those forwarded text
messages or emails that say, Oh, the price of aluminum said this,
and there's no reference or proper referencing for it. Ask the
person, can you please verify the reference before you send this
out? Because these things become viral? Right? Some people have
this habit of sending out a hadith every week on Joomla, for example,
or some other day, where it just goes viral like that. I remember a
number of occasions.
And these are really decreased. Because every time somebody sent
me one, I'll first ask, can you please verify this narration?
Right? I've never heard it before. Can you please verify where it's
strong? Oh, I'll get a response. Oh, somebody else sent it to me.
So I'm just sending it on as though that's an excuse.
So I think commonly we need to understand just because you got
free SMS or text messages. You don't just forward this stuff on
because you may be doing it in sha Allah with the with an intention
of piety.
But what happens is, you're committing a major deed, a major,
major sin in this if it's a fabricated duration,
a spirit
As narration a problematic narration, or misunderstood
narration, or whatever it may be, so always verify your sources.
Having said that, we must then become
extremely suspicious about everything to the level where if a
hadith or if we reject it as some people do today, that's not the
point. Right? That's not the point. The point is that when you
don't know the source of something, make sure you find out
a lot. A lot of the time when people get text messages from
people that are unknown, you all you see is the number you don't
know who's from could be shaytaan, some shaytaan out there doing
this, we don't know. Somebody just and it might sound very pious, you
may think that oh, it leads to good things, encouraging people to
do something good. But isn't this sufficient in what Rasulullah
sallallahu has told us? Or couldn't you say these encouraging
words even if they're nice, wise words, because there are many of
these narrations, which are considered to be a very high level
of wisdom? Very wise statement? Don't say Thomas, will allah
sallallahu Sallam just say it's been reported from somewhere, some
wise man said, no problem. A wise man said it is a Hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu. And well, he's a wise man. And you have to
be careful. That's why some of the Sahaba was so careful, like I do,
like the minister or the Hola, Juan. Once he was relating a
narration and he said, Call her soul allies and Allah Almighty or
Salam, professionalism said, and then he used some words he made a
you know, he related what he thought, then he said, Oh, call or
he said, and then he related another statement, using UTF,
eight to the same point with different words. He says, Oh,
girl, and then he just started shaking, because he couldn't he
became very confused as to exactly what words we use about us, well,
Allah and Allah is Allah and his policy or his methodology, rather,
his practice was rewire belove. There are two types of rewire in
general, one is reliable love, and there is reliable mariner. And
clearly the reader might have come to a decision like amongst you
mentioned very clearly in step three, that if they were
restricted
from relating
the meaning of what was related, or what they had heard from
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and if they were forced and obligated
to relate only verbatim words, and the words exactly as heard from us
or allah sallallahu Sallam and then from the next Sahabi and so
on, then we would not have the number of a hadith narrations that
we do, it would have been very difficult to maintain the faith,
because it is so difficult to remember the exact words, but the
majority accepted reliable manner, which means the majority accepted,
narrating you narrating the meaning as long as the person
understood what the sahabi Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam had
said, majority of narrations are like that. That's why you have so
many differences. That's why you will take the narrations of some
Sahaba over others, if there's a dispute between them. For example,
if Abdullah Masuda day alone said something, and Abdullah, Abu
Huraira, the Allahu Anhu said, to speak at about the same point. But
there's a difference between the two, you'll take Abdullah numbers,
are they alone because he was a jurist. He'd stayed longer with
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he would sit closer to us what Allah
salAllahu alayhi salam insalata and so on. So he had a better
position, he was in a better position to have understood
correctly, what sort of loss of a loved one had said, whereas Abu
Huraira the alone was not as great a jurist as I believe, most older
their loved one was, so there's a way to deal with these things. But
Abdullah was already on the he's known that he among some other
Sahaba as well, who buckler, the hola Juan he destroyed all the
Hadith that he had collected in writing, because he became
slightly doubtful about exactly the words and things. So he he he
destroyed them.
But not all the Sahaba did that. Otherwise, it'd be very difficult.
Like that's what you call reliably loved a whoo hoo. Abdullah
certainly alone become very preterm, we become very scared,
very frightened. That Am I really relating the exact words of
Rasulullah sallallahu. Some are not. But as I mentioned, the
majority say it's okay, to reliable manner to reliable minor.
Having said that, going back to the issue of these, these text
messages when you do get them next time, the only way we can stop
this and curb this is to actually write back instead of forwarding
on and say, Can you please find out about this? And if it's
something that you don't get a positive answer, or an accurate
answer, whatever, and you really think it's something that people
could benefit from, we'll just change it slightly. Don't take off
that Rasulullah sallallahu you can say it has been said, or it's a
report that's been mentioned or a wise person said, or something of
that nature, or these are some beautiful things. You could do it
or do something like that, because one has to be very careful that
this is a narration you know, when you look at Hadith narrations,
you've got
mutawatir you've got my show and so on. For example, Elijah Looney
Angelou and I believe today's in Jordan, north of Jordan,
Middle East sham area, he compiled an entire collection called, it's
called Cashville hover or Mozila il bas I'm Masha Allah, middle
Hadith Allah al Synod Enos. So this is to open up or to reveal to
reveal the
the obscurity to clarify or clear the obscurity and remove the
confusion, right about those narrations that are popularly
related on the tongues of people. Because this has always been a
tradition, someone says something that was sounds kind of wise. And
then somebody just picks it up from them. And then they spread
it. They don't know where it really came from, what exactly the
status of that narration is. So in there, he's collected all of these
narrations that are popularly mentioned, that will probably be
mentioned. And he's mentioned that you know, which are accurate,
which are reliable, which are Saheeh, which are not which are
fabricated, he mentioned who they are more classical Huseynov
Alhama. So, he is another one. He did he was before he loony and he
did some work in that there are other books as well of that
nature.
Essentially, what you have is most of the Hadees that we have are not
necessarily narrated from 10 or 15 Sahaba, meaning the same narration
with 10 or 15 Sahaba. There are many narration that for example,
the first hadith of Buhari, which is in the Malama Rubinius. In that
particular way, is related from Burma with the Allah one. Right,
it's rated for Ramadan, the Allah one. So
then you've got some narrations which may be ranging from two or
three, then you've got very few narrations, which, maybe 10,
numerators, 10, Sahaba, 1520, Sahaba have related, and then from
the next generation, about at least 2030 people are related the
next generation 2030. So which has a widespread narration in every
single generation, there are very few Hadith like that, because you
can have some that were very popular before, but then only one
or two people have them related to the next generation, from the
second generation to the third generation, for example, or
sometimes you've got a real narration, which is only once a
hobby narrated or two, and then after that many students related
it from them, so it became more proliferated afterwards. But if
you've got a constant,
widespread narration in every generation, that's what the Hadith
which you call mutawatir, and this is one of those Hadees, which are
Mutata. And it actually has a bearing on the meaning as well.
It's a multilateral Hadith, and it also shows that you have to be
careful about the kind of things that you relate