Suhaib Webb – Usul alFiqh Reading
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How you guys doing?
How are you? Good, man.
Been a little busy.
Oh, a lot going on.
Yeah.
These
these young people really stepping it up, man.
Yeah. I I I actually you know, I
I I was thinking the other day,
you know, subhanAllah,
the the the
you look at sort of the trajectory of
everything,
you know, 6 months ago and you look
at it now.
And if you think about, okay, the old
guard, the old guard, the old guard, now
you actually have the emergence of a new
guard.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we were
going through the
of,
this.
We said that the
are
their job is to help us understand
the subject.
So
we started at it's tari for what's called
alhad,
and then we moved on to
And
means as a
title.
The other form was.
Okay.
So here, this
usually, you find, like, for example example, Sheikh
Zekarian Ansari and where
he did a a very we'll go to
that book next where
he did a abridgment
of Jannah Joanna
of sayin Natajd Din Suki.
And the imam al,
Sheikh Zakariyah I'm sorry.
After he said,
you know, his explanation,
Right? This is the definition of of the
majority
of scholars.
He said,
and the word
is called
like,
which means he considers it the weaker
opinion or the weaker statement.
The majority of scholars
and I tried to do this for Omar
since he's coming from the Hanafi
school,
they define
as mentioned by in
as
So foundational principles. You think about a house
as
So these
are going to be what is built on.
Yeah. What it's based on?
Actually is from a word when in ancient
times, I heard from doctor Salah
Sultan.
Mhmm. I mean, the the the Bedouin
looks for
water. Where is the water under the ground?
And then he
his own
reliance on that
So maybe somebody
is gonna ask, like, you know,
why sometimes do you see these different
tidy facts?
Because as I heard from one of my
teachers in his poem,
the
tradition
of writings of
is divided into different fields
that are related to.
Okay?
So so he said
and another.
And they're all not the same. The shah,
the muqtasar, they have different reasons that he
mentions.
So the first
type of
intermediate book of
So the first book
that we need to be aware of is
Am
I reading a book of
or not? Because if I don't know what
kind of book I'm reading, it's gonna lead
to confusion. You understand now? Mhmm. So maybe
the definition
coming from a book whose job is
is different
than the others.
So
he says
The next
type of text that we encounter in al
Surufilq
is composed
to have a deeper understanding
what to taste it.
So now it's gonna be a little different,
a little bit more intense.
The third level is
to look after
the usul,
to understand the usul.
What's right, what's wrong.
You have to shepherd it.
And the last or 4th type of book
that's written is for
So the writing the person that's writing it
for the is
different than the person writing it for the
The
is not the same for the the,
and the is not the same as the
one who's just learning what are the, who
said this, who said that, who said this.
For doctor Mahmoud, he said,
Then he said,
like what we did in his
meta commentary on
Al
We'll talk about the different types of, not
but different types of in the future.
So maybe all of them actually are right.
Understand now? Yeah.
I,
So to say it in English for people
that are gonna watch this, so not every
book
book is written for the same reason. Right.
So the first is just to narrate. The
second is to understand and gain an a
taste. The third is to
protect and look after and shepherd, and the
4th is.
So the definitions
We wanna learn something here very important. Yeah.
The responsible
instructor
finds excuses for people.
It doesn't just like, oh, this is wrong.
This is right. This is right. This is
wrong.
One of my teachers said,
Asar, a little kafif.
Amen. I have the Asar al kafif. Asar
al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama.
Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al
Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar
al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama.
Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al
Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar al Ama. Asar
al Isar al Ama.
How
many usages
does a blind person have for their staff?
Sir,
So it's infinite.
And,
the the the staff of the blind man
becomes the eyes of the blind man.
Oh, wow. You become you become dependent on
something outside of yourself. So this is what
the the the ilm does for you.
So one of our teachers said,
Beautiful.
He's sticking with the way of Azhar.
And the way of Azhar since 1924
is they use the Minhaj of Al Bairawi.
They used to use Jema and Joanna. Before
anyone could graduate
from Al Azhar, they had to master
the Muqaddimah
of Jema and Joanna.
Just
the.
Well, they used to introduce something. It has
to be jam it.
So it starts
inclusive, and it ends exclusive, the tariq. But
that's why they usually would
usually start with a
means mastery.
To
feed
to feed
Any captions around any word, we can go
to it.
What it means external factors. Those things that
are going to be an outcome of, but
they're not in.
So it's it's factors or it's outcomes?
It's external factors or accidents.
Accidents. Right.
External. External factors.
Its topic.
Like, what's it gonna what's its major topics?
A what? Right. Okay.
I need to get I need to get
caffeinated for this part.
Student lazy. Okay.
I will make sure I make make, make
better effort.
You?
Okay.
Now,
Shaba and
Ishmael,
he's a very good writer. He's a good
teacher. He said here,
Now he's gonna explain what he just said.
What does it mean?
And to explain to you this is what
this means. So now he's gonna, like, unpack
it. You know?
Just read it again to make sense.
Okay.
I need to read this again.
No.
You have to pray. Do we see anything
that reduces that intensity of that command?
No. Do we see a, an associate,
that reduces the intensity of it being?
No.
No.
It's stripped of any supporting evidences.
To how will
who.
Good. Good reading.
Did did you actually see all of these
things he mentioned
now?
In the in the in the in the
definition of
of
of equally.
But I feel I feel like, you know,
but always definition
is is is is richer than than
You're asking if there's a difference or if
there's a
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, on the surface, it does.
Nope.
Why not? Why not? Because the only thing
this matter is to delete.
So it's on it so it's it's less
it's less,
We don't want to say this is better
or richer or la la la. The question
is, does this
point he made
make sense?
Does
to serve
me?
It's different.
Act act act that's how I want you
to read. Yeah. That's different. Be confident in
yourselves, man. That's different.
Okay?
So you're reading your Sahil. You're reading your
Basit.
So so I have a question. You just
said this is the madhav of the Jumhuh.
Right?
So of
the Jumhur of of the
of the usulis
that are, you know,
predominant today. Is that what you're saying?
You understand now? I'm sure.
And
this this says
that also the the subject matter of is
a Dalil.
According to
and those who came before him, who he
took from, and those who followed him,
the
is not just
He said it's more. Absolutely. It's more. Yeah.
So then it's not the same in heaven.
Yeah. So
you understand now? Yeah.
And that's why that's why you said it's
not.
Just wants to make it easy for people,
but we're reading it now
because we wanna read it constructively and critically.
Sure. So what I just did now also
is trying to train you with because when
you read books of,
sometimes you're gonna wait. Wait. No. No. No.
No. Or even in books of, they'll say
Like Allah in
he says
This is not
with respect
to.
Yeah.
But when he says, well, okay. If you're
to
see this is now different
subject
matter altogether.
Gotcha.
Although those others are gonna talk about it
because as I mentioned earlier,
Stop. Stop. No. What meth have is this,
Omar?
We see the genius
of the Hanafi Medhem,
and we also have to push back
on those people who criticize them as being
a preservationist
oriented
MedHab. This attack on them is unacceptable.
Why would the Hanafis
focus the usu
on preserving the Hakam
instead of preserving
the Adila. The Adila gonna be preserved as
an outcome, of course. Right. Right. Right. Right.
Right. But why would they make it centered
on Hakam?
They wanted to preserve the practice of the
of the of the Sahaba of the Exactly.
Not because they're.
Yeah. Not because as people say the Hanafis,
they have this no. No. No. No. They
wanted to to do what Malik did with
the actions of the people of Medina. They
did with the Akhem.
Right? So they shouldn't be attacked. The idea
that the Hanafis are going you you heard
this from some some of the the the
Saudi sort of salafest
minded people.
Bless them. They're sincere in what they're saying,
but it's off.
It's off. It's not.
They'll say, oh, these Hanafis, they they they
they don't believe in Quran and Sunnah. They
don't follow the sun.
Their also is to preserve the akem, to
preserve the what? The salaf.
You understand?
Doesn't mean they always got it right. Doesn't
mean the first group always got it right,
but we appreciate
their efforts.
And now if you read any book of
usul of the Hanafis,
you're gonna notice this subtle
difference.
Although the other parts, they they they they
say
all that they agree on.
But they say the
not the
Adillah.
You got it? Yeah.
But I study it all sort of of
the Halafis because
it's beautiful.
I'm supposed to send it to you. Oh
my, I forgot.
Okay? This is this is you're
talking about?
Different different text. Different text. Right.
And who?
But so so what's the the the relation
between the Akam
and Usul? Because don't we
so our the the the the Hanafis, we're
trying to preserve
the Akam because we extract Usul from the
Akam. Right? Yeah. So what do you preserve
them with? With the adilla.
Okay.
Ah,
so they start from the the ruling and
then go to the Adela. The other they
start with the Adela and go to the
rulings.
So where do they get the adila from?
Don't they get it from the rulings?
The adila
the the first group that you you're very.
The first group, they said that adila
birth the rulings.
Yeah.
So it's the deduct it's a difference between
The rulings are the outcome of the adila,
but we start with the rulings to protect
them, to keep them there.
So it's deductive.
Yeah. It's deductive or inductive.
Exactly. Deductive inductive.
Actually, that's why I believe in America,
a good imam should study the usool of
the Hanafi and the usool of the mutakalimin.
That's why the Hanafis are called fuqaha
because they begin with the hokum.
The others are called
because they begin debating the Adila itself.
What does the Adila lead to? In order
to get to where the Adila leads to,
you have to what? To Naqish.
In order to preserve the ruling, the ruling
is the.
That's why they're called in.
The others are called.
The
others
because they don't begin with the Latija. They
begin with what leads to the Latija.
That's why says
Quran
Mhmm.
And how do you start with the fruit
if you didn't plant the seed? It's the
argument.
Because the fruit came from the sahaba.
The fruit came from the salaf.
So they're they're looking at the fruit first,
and then they're breaking it apart. The aya.
The aya. The aya.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And they're deducing
the
from the, sorry. They're deducing the.
Yeah. Is that from the Akkam? From from
the Akkam. Yes.
Hadam, Mohammad.
You're very smart.
So they say you the typical sort of,
you know, nonspecialist,
division or classification
is that you have, you know, Ahlul Rah
or and then you have, you know,
Hadith. Right? And this is what you sort
of with nonspecialist,
books, you you you read this. Right? This
is what what what they are probably teaching
Sunday school or whatever,
if they get to this.
That that that distinct or that classification
usually will put, you know, the,
the the Hanafi's and the in one in
one category, which is at lower. And then
it'll put the the the Malekis and the
Hanblis in the other category.
But that's a false,
So that's a false classification. I mean, based
on what you said, you have the Hanafiah
in 1, and then you have the
in one camp. So you have all 3.
All 3 are now inductive,
and you have one deductive.
And all 3 are deductive
at times.
Sloppy. That's
all.
You're gonna say Imam Malik
never used. Right?
That's all. No. No. Impossible.
It it it it he never used the
earth. A earth is in in in the
mopa. Yeah. This is in the mopa. This
is in the mopa.
So so this this this kind of
it it it has a validity,
but it has to be unpacked
because one of the greatest teachers of
is who?
Wow.
It's like a pejorative to be used.
We should try to move beyond.
And they live very early on. The chef
Maddock 94 is born.
Dies 204
is born 204
born 204
dies 204.
We should avoid this kind of sort of
simplistic
100%. Yeah. Or the the the student yeah.
Like, you they should ask.
They should research. What is who was Alurayi?
Where did this exist? Where was the school?
What is their? There's no for Al
Can you find any book of Hanafi or
that doesn't talk about hadith?
Can you find any book of in the
that doesn't talk about?
So that's possible.
Like, yeah. Well, actually, this is why. He
didn't have
We don't need to argue about this. Then
why you say?
No. I don't wanna argue with it anymore.
Right. Right. Right.
Right.
I'm not not really, but just to give
you to help you see it. Yeah.
And this is why people criticize him.
Why, though? Because those
came from who?
The Saab. AYO came from.
So they had to find a reason. Now
the question though is when they when they
when they when they when they had cases
like
that, you know, I guess the question is,
how are they tying those cases to context
in order to,
you know, to to justify the derivation. Does
that make sense? That's why they're a genius.
They are.
That's why the
Yeah.
But
sometimes, of course, there's
and this and this. We know. But, Yani,
now we're talking about in this class, we
don't need to attack anybody.
Right? With even the Salafi, I'm not attacking
them. Just saying this is a fact, Yani,
because we need to work together.
But the point is, if somebody took the
time to do this and then they read
their
and read their,
they don't appreciate them. They may not agree
with them.
And then the the Hanafis now, some of
them won't be so tight.
You know? And the Malekic is also sometimes
very tight.
Can you imagine one person still they mentioned
his own opinion? That means he's a genius.
Someone you should pay attention to.
How did he do that? I have no
idea. I bet his book is
very interesting.
Yeah.
It's it's it's it's it's published?
What I just said just now. Okay. Okay.
Okay.
On the surface, I guess.
Don't even worry about this one because he
doesn't even mention who said it. Yeah. He
doesn't. Yeah. He doesn't. So what we should
do is just replace it and put
there.
Like in who you can be
Haqqal.
The mountain rest on it. So what does
this il rest on? What are its prerequisites?
What do we need to know
in order to really gain
the of the knowledge?
So next week,
I want you guys to read to page
the next week you have homework also. Yeah.
I gotcha.
Next week, I have homework for you. You
need to read to
page 23.
You need to stop where he says.
Okay.
Quicker and
our our job is not to go fast,
but,
Yani, we can move. And then there's one
section
where he talks about the history of. You
have to read that by yourself here.
But you can read it by yourself. It
doesn't need to be nothing to be taught.
Yeah. After that,
on page 33 starts
You read that by yourself,
and then we're gonna go straight to,
page 50.
So after we get to page,
32, we're gonna move to page 50.
Actually, no. No. We're gonna get to page
50 is still is still history. I know.
We're gonna get to page
you have a lot of reading to do
there on your own.
Yeah. It talks about.
Well, it's good. Yeah.
Very, very nice, like, what he wrote. Unfortunately,
the book that we have is a photocopy.
I don't know if you can tell that.
It's not an original printing.
How do you tell? That's a Shadi, Yani.
Sometimes people you know? So from from page
32, we're gonna skip to page 70.
73.
75. 75. 75. Yeah. 75. That's where I'm
gonna start. But the other part, you have
to read by yourself.
Next week, we start to have homework. Yeah.
We have exchange
exchange phone numbers, and we have to