Shadee Elmasry – Bukhari Class #1 2of2
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for my mother, so I'm very honored and pleased to be here for the
first hopefully 15 sessions.
So of course, the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad, so I sent them
the Buhari series, part one. And we said part one, because there's
about 296
Hadith, which I'm going to get into a little bit, exactly what
we're reading. So we're not going to cover all of that in 15
sessions, and we're hoping if we get to 40, then it would be that's
kind of ambitious as well.
So I was approached a few months back by the Safina society.
Leaders, Shadi and brother Assam, teach a class here. And this is a
class I have taught before.
People who used to go to the old NBRC imams in Abuja, they might
recall, in 2004,
or maybe 2003,
we did something similar.
And whenever we speak about the Hadith of the Prophet, commissar
send them.
And more specifically, when we speak about learning and knowledge
and transmission of knowledge, in general, it's good to kind of
think about why we're here. And what we hope to get out of it.
Because one of the traits of, of a purposeful person is that they do
things with purpose with aims and objectives. They don't just do
things haphazardly. And that's kind of what separates us from
those who walk the earth merely to satiate themselves and to fulfill
their passions and desires. And then there are others who walk the
earth looking to do what they have been entrusted to do on this
earth, namely, to be stewards of the earth to be hauled off
as a last fall dataset about our father, the Marines in new Java
are the studies that are reported on the earth as an ephah, a
steward who may look after it. And part of the trust that we've been
been given is to fulfill that trust, and you cannot fulfill that
trust without knowledge. And knowledge is one of those things
that actually separates human beings from all other creatures.
My read recently, I think it was today actually,
an article about, you know, the V formation that birds form when
they migrate when they fly, and they can't figure out really why
there's one bird in the in the, in the front, and then they have a V
formation. And it's kind of Uncanny Hall, all different sorts
of species of birds do it. So they're trying to figure out why.
And then they actually said that there's a kind of downwind and
upwind based upon the flapping of the wings of the birds. And so
they positioned themselves exactly perfectly in that spot where they
can exercise the least amount of effort to keep up with the other
birds in front of them.
And
they said, you know, that's one of the secrets. We're trying to
figure out how to birds know how to do that.
Birds don't know how to do that. No one taught them how to do that.
This is something that's inherent and instincts
Within all other creatures besides human beings, they do things
instinctually
birds only need to be taught how to fly. When the, you know, the
mammal, whether it be the elephant calf or the horse, when the
Americans birth and the horse comes out, and then it knows how
to stand on all four legs and walk about.
No one taught it how to do that. No one taught the bees, how to
form the honeycombs, and how they have each specific assigned roles
that they all fulfill. No one taught the ants how to make the ad
colonies. No one taught the beavers how to gather the word and
build their dams. That's not a tall thing. That's something they
do instinctually inherently, animals will only divert from
this, when we get involved. When we train them to do something
differently. Or we get involved in a way where we encroach upon their
habitats upon their ecosystem on the way of life, then those things
can go out in a different direction.
Those are animals, they're doing what they're supposed to do. But
as human beings, we have something unique about us that allows for
all that has endowed us with the faculty to think to learn, to
understand to feel, right, we don't really say that an animal
animal feels happiness or sadness. This is more of a human function,
a human trait. And it's it's a uniquely human trait.
As we will see, as we go through this course. So we should have a
good intention. When we come here, there's many intentions we can
have when we walk into this place. One of them is, since we are in a
masjid, then we should have the intention, and then we'll add to
KEF that we have the intention that we're here for RT Catherine.
So the next prayer, then we'll get the reward until the Isha times
called and we will pray collectively, we should have the
intention that we're coming here to see our fellow
Muslims, brothers and sisters, that's a good intention. And above
all, we should have the intention that we are coming here to learn
something that we might come and gain some benefit and also give
benefit. Because this relationship between teacher and students is
not a one way thing. Ask anyone who's ever really tried anything.
And they'll tell you that, without the students who can't teach, I
could never speak in front of,
you know, I've tried to do this on the internet numerous times when
there's nobody there, we pretend that there's an audience, it just
doesn't work, you have to have that. That interaction between the
two. So I'm here to benefit from you. And hopefully we can have
something would be of benefit to you as well. And the way we bring
you what we understand of this book, are these Hadith insha Allah
is something that I myself understood from my teachers who
understood from their teachers and understood from their teachers.
One of the things about things about our Islamic tradition is
that it's a transmitted knowledge.
It's a review of knowledge firsthand, it's not going to be
today. And it's also a transmitted knowledge. And what we get
transmitted means that
one generation upon upon the next takes this transmitted knowledge
and the manner, the trust they've been entrusted with is to is to
transmit it to the next generation. Like when the Prophet
SAW I said, and he mentioned to you, these people who even just
carry
the transmission, not necessarily understand him, but even if
they're just carriers of it. It's a meritorious thing. Not that
alone. Even though I'm SME, I mean, a lot light upon the person
who understands our message, imbibed, understands what has been
set and passes it on.
And then those who can actually implement it, and actually put it
into practice. That's another level altogether. And they may not
be the same person may not be wanting to to the same person, as
he said, in the same Hadith. Moreover, how many fills in, in a
manhole of couple minutes? How many filled clean laser because we
Okemah called saucer. So perhaps someone who is a carrier of this
perfect means not filled in the sense we've had today. But general
understanding of its there may be carrying it to someone who has
more understanding than him.
And then, or to be someone was, would he's not have an
understanding, but the person who brings it to as an understanding.
So it may very well be that we meet some of this hadith. And some
of the things I mentioned, who may understand it better than me.
Maybe I'm just reading it and then when you think about it, meanings
come to you and Allah opens these doors for you, which is quite
possible. So that's why these types of gatherings it's not like
any other gathering, we should have the intention, that we hope
that there are for to heart that there are openings from Allah
subhanaw taala that their agenda yet we see manifestations of the
Divine Will of the divine presence as we read these most sacred words
the words of the Prophet homicides and that
Not just read them and understand them. But we imbibe, imbibe the
meanings, and they come part of who we are ultimately, that's what
my intention isn't, I hope hopefully we can all try to work
on that goal together.
So, I'm not sure about previous
experience here and people's level, if they're familiar with
socketable karate is or not things like this. But basically, the
promisor I sent them when he spoke, as the Quran says, Well, my
anticline our inherent in that while you prophesy, someone does
not speak of his own volition. It's why, and why he means
revolution. And revolution means that it's coming from Allah
subhanaw taala. So every word that came out of his mouth Solara
syndrome is a type of way but we classified in different ways. So
that which He spoke up, and he said, This is Quran
and he will tell the Sahaba he had specific scribes. So this is
Quran, so recorded as Quran.
And then he had a general admonition to most of the Sahaba
not all of them when he told them this.
What is not Quran don't write it down.
That was a general prescription, but not for everyone because there
are certain Sahaba where he told them even when it's not Quran, I
want you to write it down. This is what we generally refer to as the
Hadith. And he called it Hadith, even in his lifetime. He mentioned
to tennis diplomatic, our particular occasion, and he
praised them, I believe the diplomatic would be able to write,
but he presently said
about his hips, Al Hadith. And his,
his sticking close to wanting to record the Hadith. And he praised
him for this. So he knew that what he called what he spoke about,
which was not Quran was called Hadith. So we call the Quran is
why it's revelation. It's Calam Allah, it's a special laws,
federal data, but then the Hadith of the Prophet promises and then
we call that why you will have it is in inspiration, the prophesy
centum obviously is inspired
person, Spider Man and so whatever he says, has that divine
inspiration behind it. But on specifically it's not for and then
we call that hadith. So, there is no one in recorded history who has
more has been recorded about their own intimate personal details of
their life, how they spoke, how they walked, how they treated
others, what they ate, how they sat, what type of clothing they
would wear, where they would travel to
the names he gave to his animals. All this is recorded within the
Sunnah or the Hadith, of the Prophet Muhammad sighs. So even
just looking from a perspective beyond just our own paradigm,
there's no other figure in history who want to call it a historical
figure for argument's sake, that has as much recorded about himself
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as we have.
But then that begs the question, if so, if we know so much about
him, and we have so many details, then why is it that we see, people
are making all sorts of claims about who he was? And it doesn't
really seem to be that's the first time that he was? Why do we have
all this strife and destruction and
quarreling, especially amongst Muslims these days, especially in
parts of the Muslim world, when we have the Sunnah of the Prophet
Muhammad of our center, and we have the Quran and the prophets, I
said, Well, he's the one who said
You know, you must take the Quran and my sunnah, otherwise there
have been no ages. You know, you use the metaphor bite down on it
with your, your primary teeth, and you stick close to the Quran, and
the Sunnah. But yet we have many people claiming Quran and Sunnah.
And they don't seem to be embodying what we would think to
be a prophetic character, a character of a man who was, at the
same time the most dignified of any man who ever lived, but also
the most humble.
The most awe inspiring person, but also the most lovable. And it was
these apparent contradictions that can became embodied in the person
of Mohammed Salah settler is what made him a prophet, because they
could not have been embodied in any other regular individual.
So the answer to the question, it's not an easy answer, but I
think part of the answer is what I mentioned the beginning. This is a
transmitted tradition. And not only is the words of ALLAH Spano
town have transmitted and the words of the Prophet Muhammad SAW
I said, I'm transmitted, but how we approach those words, and what
we do with them.
It is not enough to just have text the words themselves and then run
with it. But the province was was very specific when he said, not a
lot of Imran, our MSME.
So he mentioned people understand and then they carry it within
their hearts. So even though the message, the desire that
is reflected in the words, it's not the reset the desire that is
embodied in the hearts and then passed on to others from heart to
heart. And when we go outside of that particular paradigm, we're
outside of that understanding. Then we have all of these types of
egregious understandings of the Quran and Sunnah that lead people
to
spurious understandings understanding that no one in the
action came up with before. And then we have what we call sort of
using the religion to advance particular purposes and not the
other way around. So people are particular the things they want to
do they need to accomplish, and then they Mangle and manipulate
the religion to fit into those particular parameters that will
advanced their cause. But if we look at it, when we look at it
from outside of all those things, what exactly was that message that
was conveyed in that Isetta, Muhammad Scarcella? I think, if we
open our hearts to that, then we'll find something quite
different.
So the Hadith being the inspired speech inspired from a loss of the
Prophet Muhammad, sorry, seven something that there were many,
many of them hundreds of 1000s if not millions,
and Imam Al Bukhari himself. He said that his particular
collection Sahil Bukhari, he said he chose it from nearly 600,000
Hadith.
And the Bukhari as it stands today, including the repeats it's
not more than 7000 or so. So obviously, he left most of it out.
And similar stories for Imam Muslim was fewer Hadith Imam
Malik, for example, also said that I kept revising them and whatnot,
which was the first book of Hadith. I kept revising it for 40
years, until it came down to 500, about 500 Hadith. And he too, had
hundreds of 1000s of Hadith at his disposal.
So what we're getting here, if we look at just saying Buhari is
what's called a mandala, it's an election
or selection of particular body of Hadees that embody the prophetic
message of Muhammad salah.
Now what our Imam here did Abu Jabara who died in 675 and
he took the hadith of Buhari
the over 7000 or so and he brought them down to a little less than
300 and he explains in his introduction, why he did so I
don't think we slot included in the in the beginning,
but I'm just gonna read you part of the introduction.
Where he says
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determined after a hadith we have 700 Delia was de su as an either
either or will Hadith.
So he's saying why he wrote the Hadith why he compiled it, he
didn't write it, but he why he compiled it in this fashion.
He said one Hadith and the preservation of Hadith are from
amongst the closest ways to Allah's battle Todd, aka Robin was
the closest ways to Allah subhanaw taala. The Muqtada Athan going by
all of the narrative reports that came about this, like when the
Prophet SAW Selim said, Whoever preserves a hadith or takes a
hadith even one that establishes a sunnah or repels a bit odd,
something innovative not from the religion, then they will have
paradise but that will gender and also when he said whatever
preserves a hadith for my ummah, then he will have the reward of 71
prophets.
So he brings out the reason why he did this number one that the great
reward and how the hadith is a way towards the lowest level dad. Then
he mentions why he did this originally.
He said there's many books of Hadith. So why did I need to do
this? Originally, he said that people started stopped reading it
because it became difficult for them. Because of the many a
Senate, the Senate
and some of us may be familiar with is that first part of the
Hadith Word gives the narrator most of us will read the Hadith as
in this particular
book, only can includes the name of the sahabi, the companion of
the Prophet, so I said the word it directly or saw directly from
Amazon. But the Salat actually can go much beyond that. For example,
the Senate tool Buhari includes three or four people in between
the sahabi to Imam and Buhari, and he includes the Senate, because
like we said, this is a transmitted tradition. And so the
ultimate of Islam, they said if something is transmitted, right,
and I want to verify, you know, is it valid or invalid? Is it true or
false? But it's something I hear from someone else. They said, I
have to look to the person presenting me with that particular
facet of knowledge. And they said, there's two aspects that I look
at, when I'm thinking about whether this person was bringing
me this hub up is truthful or untruthful. One they call other
which is their trustworthiness? Are they a trustworthy person? Are
they an upright person?
And two is there?
Are they precise? Do they have a good memory?
Can they present it in the way that they heard it, because
someone can be an upright individual, but they can't
remember a thing. And someone can be, you know, have a photographic
memory. But there are devious person and make up Hadith which
happened in our history. So if both of those attributes are of
the highest caliber, then we call that person a second.
So when you read sometimes a lot with the plot, means every single
person in the Senate in the chain of transmission is someone who is
a trustworthy and precise person in the narration.
To my knowledge, there is no other system of precision in determining
the validity of reports, then what we have with Muslims, this
particular system.
And our Quran came to us like this, the Hadith came to us like
this, the books that we read, came to us like this, don't think it's
only a written tradition, our tradition is very much an oral
tradition as well.
And being an oral tradition means that it must be transmitted
orally, you cannot merely rely on the text itself. Those of you who
know a little bit of Arabic
will know that Arabic language is non vowels. Non valid means
you have to put the vows yourself, right? If you read a word that
says there's a lot seen,
how do I read that?
How would I know how to read it? Unless I see it in the sentence,
it could be done also, someone studied something, it could be
gaps.
It could be Donald Arsa. Someone taught someone else. So that means
when I'm reading the language, I am actually actively involved in
interpreting what it means. So there's an active interpretation.
An Arabic is is of that nature, English, you don't have that
English, you have all your vowels there and everything. So you don't
really have to interpret as actively as you do with the Arabic
language. But you know, the in the most half of the Quran, when you
open it up and has all of the diacritical marks or the scheme,
right, someone put that there
that wasn't revealed like that. The first must have didn't have
any marks. In fact, it didn't have the dots either. You can tell the
difference between a bat and
the one or dots. Right now we teach our kids you know, how do
you know the bat we say be bottomed out on the bottom and
that is two and see three, three dots, right. But they didn't have
any of that. So there was impacted interpretation in understanding
this and that can only be validated and solidified by
anyway. So anyway, and the transmission of these Hadith as
they heard them, and then the diacritical marks because we put
in this is how the Quran was revealed
by the seven or 10 Different canonical recitations of the
Quran, Al Quran, Allah Allah
is by this method, as well as the Hadith itself.
So if there's active interpretation involved, then
there has to be
validated transmitters.
Right? Who number one heard it correctly? And number two can pass
it on correctly. And some of the biographies are funny stories
about people who were misinterpreted. What if I told you
something before, but the
the man who they saw him approaching the prayer and he had,
he had a dagger on his belt, and he had a dead mouse, like tied
around his neck. And he's walking into the prayer. I said, what is
that? What are you doing? Because I didn't read the Hadith. Prophesy
says I'm used to approach the prayer with Sakina or far.
Right? sukeena means knife and for his mouse. But this could be
misread. If you miss read in the Arabic, it's really Sakeena. What
we'll call Sakeena means tranquility. And wakad means you
know, or a reverence. That's how you should approach a pair and
that was a knife, and a mouse. But that person who didn't engage in
the transmitted tradition, so they read it, and they made a mistake.
So hopefully, what we're going to try to do is
go through the first Hadith today, I mean, Minister number 42,
which is the Hadith, I'll just give an introduction to it, and
then we'll break for Asia. The hadith of that in why?
Well, before I get to that I should talk about the title of
this book. So it's called the abridgement. But actually, the
title is
gem on the hierophant Bedi, while higher.
So the first word Gemma, which means to bring things together to
combine things, and bet at the beginning,
when you hire
and the end, so the Hadith that he chose for the beginning, Hadith
and the end, Hadith are significant. He begins with the
Hadith that's commonly referred to as bed Ilahi, or the beginning of
Revelation.
And the last Hadith that he mentioned here is about the hadith
of people when they enter paradise and how
that is when the learned one rid of Allah smart Allah is fully
completed and fully realized when they enter into paradise. And
that's the story. Right? Now, if we look at stories, Lord of the
Rings, you know, they lost the ring, they got the ring, and at
the last moment, they threw it in the fire and everyone, you know,
lives happily ever after, and so forth. So that's our story. The
story is from when the prophesy Selim first received that
revelation, we got hit up in the mountains of Iraq, and then the
story we know how it's going to end. Right? Well, there's no
suspense here. We know how it's gonna end, generally speaking, but
the suspense is, how is it going to end for me? How's it going to
end for you, a new a new a new
and also tells us how it can it for us how it's supposed to, and
how we should hope that it will act. And so the author here in
every genre, he took this as a way, not just for himself seeking
Allah's federal data, but for those who read it after him, that
they make these combinations, understanding the beginning, and
you understand the ending, and then you understand everything in
between. So we'll break it out
for their supper and we'll come back after that.