Shadee Elmasry – 3 REASONS WHY We Have Madhabs Ep. 2 Debunking Madhab Myths

Every discipline that you can imagine in the just every

discipline from politics, anything that people do, are going to have

differences of opinion. Now, you may think we have one book, and we

have one prophet. So why would there be any difference of

opinion, everything should be in the book. And the religion is

easy, and we shouldn't have any disagreements. Now, the mistake in

that is that while we have one book, you need to understand the

three main reasons that methods exist. The first reason Yes, we

have one book, but the verses in the book, and in the Hadith are

different types of verses.

One type of verse is called a verse, an explicit unequivocal

verse it cannot possibly ever be misinterpreted. An example of that

is all the verses about so heat, oneness of Allah, Allahu Allah

had, there is no other meaning for the word one. If we look at rules

of inheritance, for example,

this person gets a third this person gets a fourth your mother

gets this, your father gets that there's no difference of opinion

there in the Arabic language does not allow multiple meanings for

the word male, or for the word 1/3 or 1/4. So the first tranche of

set of verses, these are called the foundations of the book,

there's no difference upon them. And as a result, there's no

method. If you go against those, you're outside of us someday,

maybe even outside of the slot.

The second type of bursts second tranche of verses are called

funny. The words funny, or in English, equivocal means it could

possibly have different meanings in the language, or the verse

could be understood differently. Those verses exists and that's why

methods assist those verses force people to come to a conclusion on

what it means. They force the scholars to say okay, what does

this word mean? The money versus require thought and where they're

stopped, there's differences. So, to give a simple example, the

verse about will do uses the word su or wash, when we say wash, what

is the meaning of wash? What are the parameters of washing? If I

dip my arm into a still pool of water? Am I washed it? If I move I

poured running water over my arm have I washed it? Or do I have to

pour running water and rub it like this have I washed it? What about

dipping my hand in water and then rubbing it on a dry arm have I

washed it all these are different opinions, some rejected, some

accepted and some merely deferred upon. So the existence of money

versus equally the goal versus or equivocal language. Each in one

individual word can have a single meaning no discussion, where it

could have multiple meanings. The second reason why methods exist,

life is constantly bringing Muslims new scenarios. Let me give

you a simple example. There are scenarios that could have never

happened to the time of the prophets of Allah. As a result of

that the Prophet peace be upon him

did an answer to give an example in the time of say not even every

thought that the first religious sects came about? When the Prophet

SAW Allah He was Saddam was alive. There were no six.

If anyone had a comment about the deen, well, the Prophet was there

to answer it. And there was one Amen. But once the prophets of

Allah it was done and returned to Allah and you have the companions

and years pass and more years and decades paths and 30 years pass, I

leave in every thought it said nobody had to deal with the first

group of people that broke away, said we know better than you. And

when against many explicit things, in the Quran and the Sunnah, and

defended themselves religious, not political. So was the footage.

What do we do with them?

So these are questions that came up, did it come up in the time of

the Prophet came up later? Cause suddenly today, every day, there

are new questions from the from the time of the companions

onwards, when there's a drought in Medina, do we still uphold all the

crimes in the same way? We'll say Norman said no. Crimes are not

treated the same way when there's a drought. And people are starving

and a man has five kids at home and he goes robs another old, he

can't be treated the same way as in peacetime at a time in which

everyone's living happily.

How do I get an education? We're in a world of student loans. How

do I What do I do with Bitcoin? Do I pay as a cat on it as a stock?

Or as occurrence?

Is it as a cannibal? What do I do with all these things? So these

questions are not in the Quran and in the Sunnah.

directly Quran and Sunnah give us principles on how to answer

another question. In the time of the Prophet, there was one Joomla

in the whole city.

What happens when the city becomes one of our cities filled with

millions of people can have one Joomla? You can have to answer

that question. So that's what previous generations dealt with.

And we continue to deal with that. Sometimes we imagine the world is

static. And then there's modern Titus, right? Like the all the

world was living just like the prophet for 1300 years, then

suddenly, both modern times, it's not the case. Now the third

reason, third reason that meth labs is a mimetic spoke about it.

And he spoke about headaches. Why is it that you can find a dt that

says one thing, you can find another Hadith that says another

thing, or you could find the early generations never practicing it?

Or practicing something completely different?

We have a hadith for example, that the Prophet peace be upon him,

wiped him upon a job, or a sock. What you find the Sahaba never did

it and taught not to do it?

How do we explain that? They only wiped on a leather cuff.

So we asked the question, then, is every Hadith, definitive of what

the font prophets final teaching was Maddix that no, the prophet

may have taught one thing, then that matter became abrogated. And

he taught something different. So the law within the time of the

Prophet was fluctuating.

He allowed something at one point didn't allow it later on, didn't

allow something at one point, and then allow to later on, there may

be a Sahaba, who came and visited the prophet in the early time, saw

what he did, went back home transmitted it. Later on the

Prophet peace be bottom, given who really, gold is one example, was

permitted for a period of time. He himself wore gold ring for a

period of time, then he forbade him from it. So abrogation

and differences on the grading of Hadith, just because we have

Bukhari, and Muslim, and we all know that those are the two most

reliable books on Hadith because their chains are so perfect, does

not mean that every Imam agreed that this is the final say, of

what the Sunnah of the Prophet is. So, the summary of what I'm saying

is they differed on Hadith, they differ on what was the final

teaching of the Prophet varies, that will give you a very simple

example. In the Quran, there are 16

or 15 or 11 points of such

as to salute in which while you're reciting, given certain conditions

you need to make such that it just makes to Jude. Well, according to

one narration, there are 16

According to another students at Hajj has one, not two, so that

makes it 50. Yet, according to Ibn Abbas, and this is what ematic

takes, the sedge does in the Mufasa verse, that sort of shorter

sutras were all abrogated, such as the sedge, the end diplomas,

Malbec, Allah the Cotswolds, is abrogated. So the Prophet used to

do it in Medina makup, but he stopped doing it in Medina.

So there is a difference that narrations about the verses have

surged up, there are different variations, because one came at

the beginning of the time, and another came later, the Imams all

differed on which narration came which and that's third reason why

method. So to recap the three main reasons number one, there are

inexplicit vannini equivocal verses in the Hora and in the

Hadith, meaning texts, words, phrases, commandments,

prohibitions that could have different interpretations on what

they mean. The word itself means many things.

Number two, there are always new matters, these new matters need to

be answered. When they're at where they're answered correctly, that's

a slump, where they're answered incorrectly that could be an

error.

And if it goes beyond the certain bounds, it could be a heresy.

Thirdly,

the scholars themselves differed within the realm of Hadith on what

was the final say of the prophets of Allah when they differed on

ragging Hadith. Abu Hanifa famously would judge by the action

of the narrator wrote more than his words. So if a narrator said

something, but he acted differently

than we must assume he said it as an exception, not as the norm

because he practiced differently. That's the third reason that

methods exist. They differed on Hadith itself,

book body when he says something, and then this is the Sunnah,

that's all so he's using his opinion. And you may have heard of

another scholar who's early from the earlier times or after him

that says not there is

A stronger Hadith than this, or this hadith is an exception, or

this hadith was abrogated, or I fought a fight a stronger proof is

the action of this narrator or the action of a more seniors committed

to this. So with that hadith is not a fixed a source that cannot

be discussed. It's more of a flexible source that can be

discussed.