Shadee Elmasry – Did The Sahaba Do It The Process of Rulings In Islam
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This question that handcuffs many people did the Sahaba do it. This
is not the methodology in Islam. This is not the method of deriving
rulings in Islam that you have one filter No, we have many, many,
many filters you need to study a discipline called well suited fit
in which you see many filters in amongst them is something called
is JSON is JSON is that you find that an a practice or an action is
rooted in the religion and has a great amount of benefit in it and
it's considered good and it doesn't contradict anything in the
shittier and that's by itself a source of something being an
actual practice and a proof who did is just said well Imam Shafi
came upon the Egyptians and found that they had added a lot to the
tech beer of eight Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allah. Allah Allah
Allah Allah Allah Akbar Allah prologue, but what Allah al hunt,
then they continue on Allahumma Salli, ala sayyidina, Muhammad wa
ala Sayidina. Muhammad, what else? Have you said? Muhammad right as
well as you say they're in my wallet? Do they say no? And all
sorts of other praises of the Prophet and recounting of his
history and no Sahabi? Have you ever done that? The prophet had
never done that, but they didn't remove what the Prophet did. They
added to it. So what did the great Imam a chef I say about this, he
chef a thought this is good. Because here you have a period of
time. And we're now in an era where not a lot of people know a
lot of history about the Prophet. So Eid is where everyone's
gathered. So to add a few words here and there to the ticket bit
of ad accepted it. That's the first thing I want to say what's
the second thing I want to mention is that when we look at actions,
and we want to know, Is this acceptable or blameworthy all that
the person in front of you needs is a valid opinion, there doesn't
have to be just one opinion on matters? No, they need a valid
opinion, there can be multiple opinions on things. That's why the
text of the Quran is divided between matters that that has no
discussion in it and matters that does have discussion in it when
people read something. And they say, well, well, you could derive
this from it. Well, you could derive that from it, as long as it
matches with the Arabic language and it's befitting and it's not
contradicting any other explicit source, then at that point, it's
it is a valid opinion. Now, when someone is upon a valid opinion,
we are not allowed to make income out of it, you can share your
another view, you can say, Listen, I want to tell you about another
opinion. All right. Tell us about any opinion you want. But you
can't take one opinion and crush all other opinions with it. This
is something that's important for people to understand, who are just
learning and they see one opinion about something and they use that
as a bat to destroy everything else. Not every matter has one
answer to it. Some people say we got one God, one prophet, one
book, Why do we have multiple opinions because Allah himself,
but in the book matters, and spoke in a way that can be understood in
many ways as a mercy for us. And that's why we have opinions. If
the Companions themselves had opinions, the Sahaba themselves
had Medina have amongst themselves and others Sahaba would follow one
or the other of companions. We know this, and this, we have a
whole method series on it. And it happened in the time of the
prophets, Allah, Allah when he was seven that he sent the Sahaba out
on a mission. And he said, Do you do not pray Asana until you arrive
there? They ended up being late. So one group said, well, the
Prophet said, Don't pray us until you're there. And the other group
said, Well, we're about to miss us. He said, Well, the Prophet
said, Don't pray us until you're there. So let's pray. When we get
there. The prophets basically giving us permission to skip
something for us, that we don't stop for us. That's how they
understood it. The prophet is basically saying this is so
important, don't even stop for us. The other groups that No, no, this
is a figure of speech, it's a figure of speech, he means go so
fast, so that you could get there before sundown. So this, they
split on this issue, one group prayed, and the other group
didn't. When they got back, they explained the situation to the
prophet, and he confirmed both of them. That's the proof that the
words of Allah and His Messenger from them is what we call
villainy. It's speculative. It's not defined into one opinion only.
It has possibilities, different possibilities. That's the proof of
that that one Hadith is the proof. So that's number two. Is that what
you don't denounce something that could have a multiplicity of
opinions number three, and righteous actions, good deeds,
things that we would categorize as supererogatory, not obligations,
and not prohibitions, we're allowed to use weak Hadith for
that, the word for that and that can be understood as two different
things it could be understood as extra deeds that we're talking
about your supererogatory deeds, not obligatory, just
supererogatory extra, or it is a it's a word that refers to the
virtues of deeds, weak Hadith, a Bife is not a fabricated Hadith, a
weak Hadith can be used for extra non obligatory deeds. We have to
understand this, it can be used for that when we discuss these
matters. It's not a zero sum game two opinions can be right. That's
the second point that we made. This third point is that what are
we using here? When someone comes and says, Hey, listen, give me the
proof I owe
I only want to hear it from Bukhari or Muslim and has to be a
sahih Hadith. Well, you're wrong again, I'm sorry to tell you that
we had these are totally allowed to be used provided the weakness
is not like threadbare. So this takes five conditions to make a
hadith. So here, if one even two is missing, it's weak, but the
weakness is not so weak when four are missing, that's different. On
top of that what multiple weak had eats here's a weak Hadith there's
another weak Hadith there's a third week I did on the same
topic, render the Hadith to be strong has said, we can say not so
here, but it will render to be has only lady has said means it's a
good Hadith, we can use it, for sure. Without doubt. So he has the
most strong and really so he and has an essentially they're one in
the same. They're just two descriptions of sound Hadith one
is just more precise than the other. So this the third point
that I'm making here, is very important for you to know what's
the fourth thing I'm saying lay person should not be talking about
deriving rulings and debating the origins of rulings in the first
place, a lay person, and we're all laymen in regard to what we're
talking about right now. Why would we discuss why are we discussing
principles of Islamic law, even how to derive a ruling, let me go
and try to derive a ruling directly from the Hadith when
you're a layperson. So you have to understand your place here, when
you want to give someone a medicine. It has to come from a
prescription from a doctor, right? Unless it's something simple, such
as a cough drop, or a Tylenol. That's like in Islam in the Shetty
app, no one needs to sign off on you in order to tell the story of
the Prophet Moses or to read the descriptions of death but somebody
does need to sign off if you're going to give a federal the common
person does not go into the books of Quran and Hadith by himself to
come up with a ruling nor does he debate them what is a common
person do he goes to one of the forest schools of thought where
they looked at all of the sources all of the possibilities all of
the conditions all of the Iman the costs and look at them okay yet,
and words that you don't even understand? And he cites one of
these four opinions, you'll be 100% safe, but you go and try to
do it yourself and say Alright, give me a Hadith from Makati get
me I need from Muslim. You don't even know what you're saying?
Because that's not how the show works. Oh, give me I'll take
anything except to show me that this is a hobby did it you're
already failed. So this is even a more important discussion than the
previous three things I said this discussion is the most important
one a regular common Muslim and even the common scholars 95% of
the scholars. I'm not even gonna say that 99.5% of the scholars of
the world today if not 99.9 Do not go directly to get a ruling from
the Quran. The hadith is the how you do it because there is so much
that goes into deriving a ruling it's probably no different than
taking a leaf and saying let's make a medicine out of this. It's
going to take so much to make sure that this is safe that this is
correct that this is accurate does not contradicting anything. So
what do the scholars do today? They go to the books of law that
have already done this and they see if there is a pneus which
means a text from the scholars then you're in absolutely safe.