Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Daily Lesson Shaykh Hamzah Maqbul Staying on Course.
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Narrates a hadith,
which the,
many of them, have
designated as Sahih. Obviously, the only two sources
of Sahih hadith
in the world are not Bukhari Muslim, but
they are given they're recorded a special status
because of
the excellent
nature of their compilation.
But
as far as Sahih hadiths are concerned, you'll
find them in many other books. Bukhari Muslims
don't even represent half or quarter of the
total number of Sahih hadiths that are out
there. And this is something that people oftentimes
feel okay to dismiss a hadith just because
it's not a Bukhari and Muslim on the
top of their head.
This is this is not a it's not
good. You should wait for what the ulema
say. If the hadith is sahi, it's sahi.
And the hadith of Bukhari is not more
sahi than the hadith of something other than
it. Because the honor and the nobility of
a hadith doesn't come from the fact that
Bukhari or Muslim narrated it, comes from the
fact that the messenger of Allah
said it. So say,
one of the 4
one of the 4
narrators from the sahaba that narrated a great
number of a hadith.
He narrates from the Messenger of Allah that
a time shall come over my ummah,
that will be very that it will be
very much, like Banu Israel. We read the
stories of Banu Israel in the Quran. The
reason for that is not to make fun
of them or to feel superior to them.
The reason that there are so many stories
of
in the Quran is going to be,
spoken about in this very hadith. That there
shall come a time over my,
like the time that came over
and they will follow them
That just where their foot falls, the the
the the footprints of their sandals went, the
footprints of the sandals of the people of
this will go.
Obviously not all individuals, but as a general
trend.
To the point where if
a person from was
to
was to commit with his own mother,
someone from this would do the same thing.
Now again, this is these are very rare
hadiths that you'll find,
expressions like this being said by the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Generally speaking, he's very,
he has too much to say stuff like
this. The only time he'll say it and
it's very rare, it's very sparing,
is when some example like this is needed
in order to convey a Haqq that people
otherwise will not,
take to heart.
And it's true. We we think that Muslims
are immune to everything. Whatever is happening to
the and whatever is happening to the,
it's happening to this as well.
All social norms regarding homosexuality,
regarding gender, regarding
family,
regarding,
regarding just all sorts of different things that
that were unimaginable even 50 years ago. Those
things are all being broken right now. And,
it's not, you know, they'll say, oh, look,
these people are very progressive and these people
are very forward thinking and they're bringing enlightenment.
They're not doing any of that. They're just
imitating the the, the
people that came before.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam informs us
of that. That's why when we read the,
stories of al Islam in the Quran, the
reason we should read them one of the
reasons we should read them is that a
flag should go up in our head, that
these are tendencies that we are we shouldn't
allow ourselves to fall prey to and that
we should protect our ummah from.
And then the prophet
then mentioned, he says, verily, Banu Isfa'il
broke and scattered into
72 different,
72 different,
deans, if it were, or versions of their
deen. And my ummah will
scatter into 73.
It will scatter into 73 different versions,
and all of them will be in the
fire except for 1,
which
obviously was a matter of some concern for
the Sahaba,
because 1 out of 73 is not like
a you know, it doesn't seem at further
glance to be a great shot.
So they asked, you Rasulullah, who are who
are who is that one group out of
the 73 groups that's gonna make it? And
the Messenger of
Allah said,
the one that
is the path that I'm on and the
path that my,
companions are on. May Allah be pleased with
them.
Just a quick note regarding this hadith,
the
groups or the the setup that are being
talked about here,
there's a lot of people who in their
kind of naivety
or in their, lack of education,
they'll say, oh, look. See? That's why Hanafi,
Shafari,
and Maturid, and Athari, and
and all of these other kind of different
theological schools within.
We shouldn't separate into all of these because
all of them are going to go to
* except for what the prophet is on.
There's a difference between a madhab and there's
a difference between a firqa. A madhab is
alright. It's good. There are certain matters that
there are differences of opinion. No 2 human
beings will ever agree on everything, ever, anyway.
There are differences of opinion regarding amongst
the as well.
Those are different.
They're okay.
The thing that the messenger of Allah is
alluding to here is people who have different,
different,
conceptions of the deen with regards to the
foundation of the the foundations of the deen.
Who is Allah? Who is the messenger
You know, what is, what are the basic
foundations
of the deen?
And and, you know, without any mistake, all
of the different
and
the
and
the and the and the and Arabic grammar.
There's
the they have long, debates as to whether
or not, you know, simple things. What, you
know, the what's the
the word etcetera, etcetera. They have long debates.
They don't agree they agree to disagree with
one another. These things have nothing to do
with the of Islam. These things are all
okay. What is something that's not okay? You
know, if someone says, well, I believe there's
a prophet that's gonna come after the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I believe Allah
makes mistakes. I believe that, you know, we
have the right to reinterpret something that the
messenger of Allah gave
an interpretation for. And this definition that the
prophet gave,
that that deen that I'm on and that
deen that my,
companions are on, that is a really beautiful
definition because the only people who accept the
prophet
and his companions
to be authorities in deen is
the.
Right? Most people think that being a Sunni
just means you're not Shia. That's not what
being Sunni is. Being Sunni has its own
positive identity. And the tradition of the
is a positive tradition. It's it doesn't just
mean that you you're not a Shia. It
means that you accept the dean of the
and this hadith is very important and this
book is also important for the reason we're
reading the book. It's
important to know what is it in fact
that these
are on. Before a person says, oh, well,
we need to reinterpret this and reinterpret that
and have a renaissance and have a have
a new enlightenment regarding Islam. Oftentimes those things
are just coded ways of saying,
we want to jettison the tradition and the
precedence that were set forth, for us, by,
the messenger of Allah and his companions
who Allah make us amongst those who are
from that.
One group which is saved and which is
which is accepted by Allah
and keep us in our community and our
loved ones away from. The other, 72 groups
or whatever pulls a person to the fire.
I just a small note. There's a typo
in this hadith.
Right? The word milla is written with a
sod in it, milsa.
Typos are very frequent in books. They're very
frequent in books.
Unfortunately, the exacting nature with which editors used
to go over books in the old days,
they're not it's
not same as it is from before. I
just thought I'd point that out that oftentimes,
in order to see is this a typo
or is it not, it required a bit
of research. So just to talk about 1
hadith for 5 minutes, sometimes it takes, you
know, half an hour, an hour of, of
research to see what these things are. It's
something that should be appreciated. We should cultivate.
You know, it's one of the beautiful things
about the Arabic language is you cannot read
it like English, like brainlessly read it. You
have to constantly engage with the text because
there's no diacritical marks. You have to see
is this a verb, is it a noun,
etcetera, etcetera. You have to know grammar and
morphology. But one nice thing is is it
makes everybody into an editor. Your mind can
see is there a mistake in it or
is it not. So inshallah, we should also
make intention to learn
our children learn these things as well so
that they can read things critically.