Abu Taymiyyah – Dismissing Abu Hanifah!
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Was the first out of the form. Yeah.
He brought out a he brought out a
with the very little resources that he had.
Yeah. I've
come across some of the position like where
imam al Hanifa talks about praying in the
air. Yeah.
Is that something that is relevant in today's
day and age? Of course it is. You
pray in the air, right? Yeah.
On the plane. You travel, you're on the
plane. Yeah. Right. So he would speak about
certain things you think like how on earth
did he even think about that? Yeah.
But in today's day and age it's very
very relevant. Yeah.
And it's it's it's,
yeah. People criticized it at the time. Yeah.
A lot of obviously, there's a lot of
criticisms. Right? It's mental exercises. Many resources. And
there were a lot of,
around. Right? Yeah. A lot of people who
would try to maybe
attribute things to the person, message
Yeah. And sometimes people say that Imam Hanif
would reject the hadith. Yeah. Would he reject
the hadith based on him just rejecting it?
To follow opinion based on No. No. Yeah.
No. Of course not. And maybe he was
rejected because somebody in the chain of narration
or someone who was narrating this hadith was
a, a compulsive liar. Yeah. Someone who you
can't take religion from. Yeah. Not because he
was rejecting the hadith of the prophet.
Yeah. That's the misconception that I guess some
people trust. But I don't believe that Imam
Abu Hanif will do something like that. Yeah.
I really don't.
Is it bid'a now to wipe your neck?
Sometimes brothers say the ahnah if they do
Bida'ana.
They
wipe their necks.
What I want you guys to really appreciate
is
the scholars Ijtihad on this point.
Did this now come out of nowhere?
The other scholars they say that the neck
is of 2 types. Do you guys agree
with that?
A part of the neck that is connected
to your head and a part that isn't.
However,
them stating
they should wipe the neck, did that just
come out of nowhere?
Did they just bring it out of their
own back pockets?
No. You can see that
the understanding here revolves around a statement of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The more you study Azib Nur Ayeem Rahmatullahi
mentions,
The more one increases in knowledge, the more
he increases in mercy. It makes you more
open minded and understanding.
I really like this one. This is now
the second story that I want to mention.
And the title of it is
Hear it directly from me and don't hear
it about me.
It was reported by Khatib al Baghdad
Right?
With a sound chain of narration
that ends with Abdulai ibn Mubarak.
Right? Who is from the most tremendous
of righteous people who preceded us in Al
Imam.
He said, I
arrived
at Sham, which was considered, you know, where
Syria is today, place like Syria, Lublin,
in order to visit Al Auzahir Rahmatullahi Alaihi,
who was the Imam of Sham at a
time.
If you had Al Imam Al Uzzahi,
you would know straight away that he was
what? The Imam
of this whole area. Not just Syria, but
Syria,
right? Also where,
Lebanon,
Jordan, some of these neighboring
countries
of Syria today.
So as soon
as he reached Beirut,
right? Imam al Uzza, Ihmatullah,
noticed that Abdulai Mubarak
was coming towards him and he began to
call out, Yeah, Khorasani.
Oh, Khorasani.
Right?
He called out and he said, who is
this innovator
who has emerged in Kufa
called
Abu Hanifat Arhamatullahahi
Alaihi.
So, Abdullah Mubarak Arhamatullahahi
says, I went back home
After coming home, right,
of that which Al Imam Abu Hanifa Tarahmatullahi
alayhi commented on
with regards to fiqh.
Fiqh.
I did so for 3 days non stop.
And then I came the 3rd day.
Right?
So then he brought him the kitab,
which had all of these
benefits
that he acquired from Ali Babuni Fatrahmatullahi
and I went to and I ended up
giving it to him.
So after giving him this this,
right,
I put on there
it was mentioned by a Nuhaman.
Who is
Anu'aman
Right? That's actually his real name.
Everyone just knows the Kunya Abu Hanifa.
Like nobody knows my name, everyone just knows
Abutaniya.
Right? There are some whose Kunya you know,
but you don't know their names.
Right?
So they
kinda like really just catch him out. Instead
of saying it was mentioned by Imam Abu
Hanifa,
he wrote it was mentioned by an individual
called Anu Amal.
And he gave him the book.
So he kept on reading it. Right?
After standing up for the adhan. Right?
After completing a part of the kitab, he
put the kitab inside.
After the salat, he says to him, who
is this individual called
He is a Sheikh that I met in
Iraq.
Indeed, this is a great noble imam.
Go back to him and try to take
as much knowledge as you can from him.
In fact, this is the Abu Hanifa
that you warned me against. In another narration
we are told
that
There's another narration that states that Al Imam
ran
into Al Imam Abu Hanifa when he was
in Makkah.
Right?
And they're going back and forth, back and
forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And Imam Abu Al Auzai became amazed by
this individual's knowledge.
Right?
After they separated from one another, right?
Abdulrah
says, I asked
how do you find this individual?
Right? How do you find them?
Right? I envy him.
There's 2 types of envy. There's a type
of envy that is prohibited in the Sharia.
Right?
The defamed type of envy, which is
hoping for somebody's blessings to disappear.
And there's another type of hasad, which is
also translated as envy, but it requires an
explanation.
Even a messian salallahu alayhi wa sallam said
One should not have hasad envy except in
2 scenarios.
One of them is which pertains to one
reciting the Quran in the night and another
individual is extremely generous.
Right? You should try to what? Have that
type of positive envy. Does that make sense?
So he said, I envied him
because of how knowledgeable he was.
And how smart and intelligent he was.
And
I seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I was indeed somebody
who evidently
stick to this man.
Because that which has reached me is the
opposite of what I came to know about.
What can we take away from this kritzer
brothers and sisters?
If you really want to know the reality,
then hear it directly from me.
Right? Don't just take what the people are
saying about me.
And this is a very very important principle
that will
take you very very far.
Right? Especially when it comes to marriage related
issues, brothers and sisters. Right? We tend to
get extremely emotional
the moment we hear one side of the
story of someone that we are close to.
Agreed?
How often, brothers and sisters, have I been
arbitrating between husband and wife?
Right?
And then the brother is just literally ripping
into his wife before we get to the
meeting.
You get to the meeting, a lot starts
becoming apparent.
Right?
You see
people walking away with preconceived notions
because of what they heard from one side
of the story. And because of that, a
lot of enmity,
right, builds up one's heart towards that individual.
And you haven't even heard his side of
the story.
Right?
Wallahi, I always try to remind myself especially
when somebody writes,
talks to me about his wife before I
go to the meeting,
reminding myself, listen the messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said because it's not easy.
You're hearing all of these things and you're
thinking to yourself,
he must be right.
No way he's going to make up all
of this about his wife.
His beloved, right? What did
say?
If 2 people come and seek your judgment,
then don't take any
of their sides until you hear the Allah.
You will have,
the insight in how to judge accordingly.
Right?
Even
Hamzabaynu narrated,
that the defendant and also the claimant,
they should both sit in front of the
judge.
It's one thing hearing both of them out.
It's another when they are sitting right before
you. A lot starts becoming apparent.
Right? A lot starts becoming apparent.
Right? So dialogue is extremely, extremely important especially
when it comes to sensitive related matters.
I remember my father
used to say because he used to see
that I was extremely hasty when I was
young. Right?
He would say to me, Mohammed,
even if someone
comes to you who has an eye poking
out
and he has stab wounds all over,
don't rush to defending him or taking his
side because you don't know what he's just
done.
He could have just killed someone. They could
have been fighting with one another. He managed
to get the fatal blow. He ended up
killing his friend, right? And now he has
his eye poking out. You don't know what
he's done. Meaning take it easy,
Right?
That person
that you are now defending just because he's
your family
relative or just because he's someone that you
grew up with.
Right?
Wallahi, this person is going to run away
from you, and he is not going to
care one bit about you.
What does Allah will tell us?
Right? The day when one will run away
from his brother.
Sometimes they emotionally trap you, emotional blackmail.
How can you not stand by me? This
is when I really really need you.
Right? They'll even say statements such as, where
is your ikh in Samali? Where is your
blood?
Where is your blood? How do you how
do you guys say that in English? That's
how you say it, right?
Where is your blood?
Where are where where is your loyalty?
Right? To your family relatives and to your
close friends and those who are always there
for you. You. Not Alahaisabi
ma'amran yallahu aza wa jalbi.
Right? Not at the expense of my
Even if we look at entertainment, what was
he? He's listening right there. Yeah. Ibn Abdul
Bar, Salaliki Yeah. Imam Nour Raheem.
Shafi'i. Shafi'i. Yeah. Right?
Is the oldest out of all of them.
Yeah. By the way, on my iPad I
have
a lecture that I wanna conduct, some of
the virtues of Imam Hanifa. Hanifa. Oh, sha
Allah. And all the time is when Ibn
Hatay made
good mention of Imam Hanifa.
Yeah. Actually, I got on my phone. I
actually started collecting all the because in this
regard, I remember this is ages ago, actually.
There was a couple of books which
those are,
let's say, really strong
early hadith
or hadith. At times used to
basically push to show that Imam Abani for
is not even from almost as
if he's not even from. What's the name
of the book? Do you know it? It's
called Nasheifa Yeah. By Sheikh Mokuba. I think
so. Is it about Sheikh Mokuba? He's happy.
It's not as he basically And he he
took it from then there's another the statements
of the scholars at the time that were
critical of Yeah. I think that's a book
that we
reviewed and re revised and eliminated.
Okay. Yeah. To get rid of completely. Yeah.
I think Sheikh Mohammed bin May Allah bless
you all of mercy upon him. It was
one of the things that he added, and
just to kind of like,
put us out as someone who, you know,
graduated from his institute.
I don't think there was any, you know,
any anything it damaged
The Dua. The the Dua more than anything
else. Yeah. Who really did it? Yeah.
Right. And because what happens today, people will
say for example Is there a minister? Yeah.
They use it. I don't believe in it
at all. There's a book by Sheikha. There's
explanation for everything that was mentioned in that
book, I believe. Yeah. Genuinely.
Has a book, doesn't he?
A rafal moolam. And,
yeah, so that's about removing the blame from
the in I e, in the issues where
they may have gone made mistakes and stuff
like that. He's making It makes you more
tolerant reading that book. Yeah. And he's doing
this defending the form of that. Yeah. Right?
Yeah.
It reminds me also of a statement when
he
said the more one increases in knowledge Yeah.
The more this person will become more merciful.
Mhmm.
The more one will become
more merciful. Yeah.
Right? It becomes more open minded. About the
man's hair. What if he has long hair
up to his shoulders?
And, likewise, the sister, she has long hair
up to her shoulders.
Wipe up to here.
Wipe up to
here. Anything more than that is not required.
Right?
He started from here,
all the way up until his neck,
all the way up until his neck,
That's the
bare minimum. To come back up is what
the messenger salariah wasalam also done,
and this is
a practice of his which you should do
from time to time.
So I know someone's probably gonna ask, is
it sooner not to wipe the neck? Is
that what you wanna
like, come on to your question.
And Hanif, they say you wipe the neck.
Then some of you guys may turn around
and say you guys are doing bitter.
Because a big fiasco in the.
Here, the narration states, brothers and sisters,
started from here and went all the way
down to the neck.
I don't have an evidence now?
According to the majority of the scholars, the
neck is of 2 types.
A part of the neck that is connected
to your head. Agreed? Everyone touch
Part of your head is connected to the
neck. Right?
That needs to be
wiped. And then there's a part that isn't.
It's right
here. Well, what I want you guys to
understand, my brothers and my sisters, is this
view didn't just come out of nowhere. Agreed?
The Hanafis just, you know what,
wake up one day and said, this is
what we're going to do. As some brothers,
they
make it out to
be. This at least,
brother and sister teaches you to be open
minded.
Ask.
Don't just rush to saying bida. That's a
big statement.
Who tries to
speak ill of him even when it comes
to his.
Anyways, that's maybe another time
we'll talk more about Insha'Allah Ta'ala.
Some of the scholars mentioned about Alimam Bu
Hanifa Ta'hmatullahalihi.
But before I do that, Ta'adeem Moholy Sunnah.
How he used to venerate the Sunnah of
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He would say,
If you find the hadith that is sending,
this is my
Right? There's never a time that a Hadith
or should I say a statement of a
companion that reaches me.
That he gave a particular fatwa except that
I'm going to blind follow it.
Right? Imam Abu Hanifa would take the statement
of the companion,
right? And I wouldn't allow anyone to go
against it.
Also, Ibn Tayeem Muhammad mentions
the chain of narration,
If there is a statement that reaches me
from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, then
it is Alaraz.
This is an expression,
right? At the Arab Zoo.
To say that it is respected and accepted.
Right?
If we find statements
attributed to the companions, we will choose their
statements.
As for the tabiaries,
then, you know,
you will see us
going back and forth
with them, looking for that which is most
correct. As for
the companions,
And also the statement of the prophet
it is a no go zone.
Right? Meaning, we accept it straight away, and
there is no ifs and buts about it.
Right?
They say about the
It wasn't just
how can I put this right?
Him just coming
and doing his own istihad
and then his students taking his istihad from
him.
Right?
They say that his halaqaat were halaq al
munavara.
There would be gatherings that he would have
in Kufa.
And in these gatherings there would be scholars.
Like Adebu Youssef,
Mohammed bin Hasan, Foleil ibn Ayaab
who was known for his
dud. Right? And there was also some of
the Muhaditeen like Hafs ibn Riyas, who was
a great scholar in hadith.
Right? All of them brothers and sisters they
would be sitting in gatherings together,
going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth. He may say something,
right?
And then he's opposed by the other scholars
in his gathering.
Like Mohammed bin Al Hasan and also Abu
Yousef, Khad Abu Yousef, and the Mahaddithun.
He may mention a chain of narration
that
is weak, and then,
will what? Oppose
that. And then through that a malhab was
built.
You know how you have councils today, right?
Like in Saudi Arabia they have councils, in
Egypt they have councils.
It is not just one scholar saying something.
Before they issue a fatwa,
they go back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth. Sometimes you look at something
in a certain way,
right? But others have different
outlooks on that, different perspectives to it.
He will say to me and make you
think,
or I might put a particular point forward
and then you object to it and then
I find a way now to what?
To answer some of the points that you
are coming with.
And that only betters my understanding of what
we are discussing.
So this was a type of madhhab brothers
and sisters, right? That came about,
or that
was built through the discussions of the scholars
in the gatherings and sittings.
Let's go into something or some of the
statements that Ibn Taymiyyah Rahmatullahahi a'layhi mentioned. He
says,
Right?
Even though there were people who opposed Al
Imam Abu Hanifa Tarahmatullahi
Alaihi
and they differed with him on issues,
nobody can doubt
what a great Faqih he was.
Nobody can doubt his understanding,
his fiqh,
right? His knowledge.
They have attributed things to him in order
to,
In order to cancel him
And undoubtedly
these are all lies that have been
attributed to Alima Abu Hanifa Tarahmatullahi
And there's so many other statements brothers and
sisters.
The last point I'm going to mention, insha'Allah,
is the excuses or the types of excuses
that we should have for our scholars, that
Ibn Taymih Rahmatullahahi
mentions. He says,
He says the 3 main reasons,
right? The three main reasons as to why
a Scholar may leave
acting upon a Hadith and this is very
very important.
You may come across a hadith and think
to yourself, this is what? Straightforward.
How can Imam Abu Hanif
say other than that?
How can you oppose this particular hadith?
And then you begin to say all sorts
of negative things about this great Imam that
has what preceded you in Al Iman. So
Ibn Taymah Muttalai mentions
who passed away in the year 728.
So it's not just some who's living today.
The first point that he mentions is
Adam He may reject a particular hadith or
not accept it
simply because he believes that the messian sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam did say it.
Maybe the chain of narration that he's now
come across
is
that which he doesn't accept. In the chain
there is an individual who he sees as
a liar, or someone who he can't he
can't take knowledge from,
or someone who is a weak narrator.
Right? Number 2.
It could be brothers and sisters that he
rejects a particular Hadith
simply because
he intended a completely different mess Allah.
He's speaking about a different mess Allah,
right?
And yes, there might be a Hadith there,
but
when he was discussing this particular matter, it
was something that was completely unrelatable.
Right?
It may well be that he rejects a
particular hadith,
simply because he believes it to be Mansoor
abrogated.
We have something in our Sharia called abrogation,
right?
Where one eye abrogates another,
And then you have the abrogated verse. And
then you have some narration, some akham. They're
abrogated by
other hadith, other incidents that took place later
on.
Right?
Right? There's a lot that can be mentioned.
And I'm extremely tired as well,
right?
This is maybe
program number
8, I believe, this weekend,
right?
And I really wish that I come to
this lecture and deliver it while I was
more fresh.
InshaAllah
Ta'ala, I hope we we benefited, we took
some lessons from the Kasas.
Not Kasas.
And there's a difference between Kasas and Kasas.
Kasas are true stories.
Kasas are a lion entered into the Masjid,
and then the lion said this,
and then the lion left, and then he
done that. But Kasas
They are real
stories.
Right?
And
I hope this answers
some points,