Shadee Elmasry – Did The Sahaba Do It The Process of Rulings In Islam

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.