Yasir Qadhi – Ask Shaykh YQ – Episode 20 – What if Someone Rejects Hadith

			And again, how to LA since moving to Dallas, I got I got asked this question by at least 10 people.
So again, I'm going to rephrase it.
		

			One of them says, What is your opinion about Dr. So and so not going to mention the name, this
doctor apparently denies howdy he relies only on the forum and he is gaining a large following of
people what is my opinion about Dr. So and so on?
		

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			me, him
		

			j, this is the question, what is my verdict on another person, we will divide this into three parts.
Number one,
		

			the issue of one scholar commenting on another scholar by name
		

			insha, Allah, you will rarely ever hear me mention any person by name. because number one, this goes
against the Sunnah of our Prophet system, when he wanted to correct something he would say what is
wrong with some people who do this, he would concentrate on the action or the idea and not on the
person. And number two, that how do you know this person might change and whatnot, and you are
mentioning by name. And if you look at the seal of the Prophet says that if you look at the and you
listen to the seat, I've given them the lives of those haba. So many times an issue happens that's a
little bit negative. And the narrator doesn't mention the name of the one who does it. Somebody
		

			said, one of the unsought one of the person have destroyed. The sitter the covering up is the
default. Now somebody will say, Obamacare isn't in our religion, we warn against the innovator, we
warn against the dangerous person by name. And the response to this is that, perhaps, yes, that
there is an exception that can be made. That one you want to warn against somebody who's causing
harm to the community. Theoretically, it might be possible to mention his name. But let us look at
the reality. As we are all aware, our community is embroiled in controversy after controversy. And
what should not become a controversy becomes a controversy. And if you look at the state of affairs,
		

			especially from lands where their majority of Muslims the oma is divided, generally over very petty
issues. And people are warning against others over issues that don't mean they should or they don't
necessitate warning. Oh, be careful, that person puts his hand over here rather than here. Be
careful, he says amin out loud, be careful the each non xebia hammitt. We just gave him these are
all if they love that are classical, that are within the mainstream of Islam. So what has happened
is that the average Muslim, who's not into academic Islam, they just have a negative impression of
the scholar, the class that all these Maulana sobs imams do, what do they do, they just talk about
		

			one another. And that that has lost the credibility of the scholarly class amongst many Muslims. And
that's not healthy, that's not good. And so the average Muslim has lost not just credibility, but
also, you know, the story of the boy who cried wolf all the time, you know, that story that the boy
keeps on saying wolf wolf Wolf, until finally one is the real wolf. Nobody listens to him. This is
what has happened when one molana or a mom warns against other molana or your mom, nobody cares.
Nobody cares, because they're used to it. What you do is you end up preaching to the choir, the only
people that actually listened to you are those that wouldn't have listened to the other guy anyway,
		

			in the first place. You're not actually going to impact a neutral group of people to actually
effectively make this person not hurt by that group of people, as well. Maybe once upon a time, if
Mr. Mohammed said something, it would have an impact, and everybody would listen to that. But these
days, if I said to you don't listen to Dr. x. Many of you would go home and Google Who is this Dr.
x? Let me see what he's saying. This is our curiosity. Mind. I'm not saying it's wrong, right. I'm
just saying that's the way it is. Some of you might never have heard of Dr. x. But when I say Oh,
don't listen to him, he's a deviant. Maybe one third of you will say, I want to know what is this
		

			guy saying? Such that he has been warned against with the internet with the accessibility,
everything is now democratic, democratic knowledge, everything is available. And so
		

			I feel that it's not wise to mention names, and it is the default in our sooner to not mention names
as well. What we see happening is that people who are not qualified to warn against others start to
warning against others, and somehow to low end, one of our scholars of the past said if you want
		

			To become famous, go to hedge. But rather than doing tawaf stuff for a lot of money, do something
bad to the well of Zamzam throw something bad into will have Zamzam you will become famous. When you
do something negative, you carve a name out for yourself. So what we find is that people who are not
qualified, younger, less knowledgeable, less wise, taking on people that might be more qualified, in
my humble opinion, and I've seen this in my life for the last 25 years, the best way to quote
unquote, refute somebody is to present a positive alternative. You will not build a.wa by tearing
down other people's dollars, you will not build character by making fun of and refuting other people
		

			by name. You want to build, you construct, you talk about the reality and the truth in a positive
manner. And another thing as well, that, instead of mentioning the person, far more beneficial is to
mention what the idea or the concept because then it will apply universally. It will apply. You
know, maybe nobody's heard of Dr. x. Now refute a concept. Dr. X is saying without mentioning Dr. x,
but you know, Dr. Y, and Dr. Y has the same concept, then it will be beneficial to you. Maybe Dr. x
will repent, no need to mention his name, he'll move on. And I didn't have to mention anything
negative about him. And then of course, there's the awkward issue as well. And I want you all to be
		

			aware of this, because this is the world that we live in one of the principles that our scholars
said, Do not listen to contemporaries when they criticize other contemporaries, because shavon comes
and gets involved, even in the hearts of the scholars. If you look at some of the great scholars of
Islam, they actually had issues and tensions with their co scholars, and later on both of them are
venerated, but when they were both alive, they didn't get along very well. And there are many
examples of this email medic and urbanists health the famous scholar of Sierra well known massive
dispute in public between the two of them. Imam Bahati and Imam Yahya Holly, they were both shoe of
		

			bahara. And they just had a big fight on the verbal fight until Buhari had to leave. You know,
faculty Razia and others of his time Yeah, so many incidents throughout Islamic history. And this is
because sometimes, you know, I might warn against somebody in my vicinity, my neighborhood, and deep
down inside and Allah knows the near. The goal is not warning against the deviation, the goal is my
own popularity. Let me get rid of this guy. So that the, the the the playing field is larger for me.
That's why our scholars of Hadith said criticism of contemporaries is disregarded. People who are in
similar circles disregard to go to outside that circle, you're asking me somebody may be
		

			theoretically who might be based in Dallas, theoretically, I'm saying that's not the wisest thing to
do. Maybe there's some competition between him Don't come to me and mention names bring concepts.
Okay, so that was the first point. I'm not going to mention names generally, very rarely, especially
somebody in the past who was a well known deviant, that's something else. Okay. That's his, his
record is established, but a living contemporary, it's not my methodology. Number two,
		

			when you phrase a question, say, Doctor, so and so says something, realize, any time you go to any
person, and you say, Doctor, so and so says something, and then the chef gives a response, he is not
giving a response to Dr. So and so he's giving a response to whom
		

			to you. And your filtering of the message, today are among the DM gave a hadith in Rio de Sala hain.
And in it a man said, Dr. rasulillah, my relatives do such an such an I do such and such.
		

			The profitsystem began the response by saying, What did you say I'm gonna do? If the situation is as
you have described, then he gives the response.
		

			You see, when you come to me, and you say, Oh, you know,
		

			my chef, or my chef, so and so says this? I don't know what that chef says, unless I come through
you. And maybe what have you take five words and Miss 10 words? What have you misunderstood what the
guy said? And this is something that is well known. I have seen this with my own eyes, people come
to some of my teachers that oh, you know, so and so says this? How does the other guy know I have to
trust your judgment. So this is another problem. When you mentioned somebody by name, then you
mentioned a belief, and then you link the two. I don't know, if Mr. X and this belief are actually
connected. I'm trusting you, then my response is going to be based upon your hypothetical situation
		

			scenario. As we all know, in the famous head Ethan Bahati, the lady came to the process and said,
Dr. rasulillah
		

			You know, she complained three things. One of them. My husband beats me when I pray, my husband does
this. My husband does that all of it was valid. What did the process of Did you pronounce verdict,
he said called the man. The man came, accusations were given. And the man, the woman was not lying,
the wife was not lying. But you see, when you narrate your version of events, you will
subconsciously it's not even, it's not even intentional. Half the time. Sometimes it's
unintentional. It's not even intentional. Sometimes you will pick and choose what is already
preconceived to your narrative, right? The technical term is confirmation bias, you will confirm
		

			what you already bias is you believe Mr. X says, sooner is not valid. So if he says any phrase,
you're going to jump on it, you're going to say, Oh, he said this phrase, but you won't, you won't
tell me the phrase after it or the phrase before or the context or other fatawa. So this is another
problem that we have to be very, very careful about and a lot so it just says in the Quran, that
well is human, the commission an omen Allah, Allah eridu, who, Allah taqwa do not allow the
animosity you might have against somebody, do not allow that animosity, to cause you to fall short
of being just be just unfair. That is the essence of taqwa. So Allah is reminding us sometimes our
		

			animosity, our preconceived notions, they cloud our judgment. And so we have to be careful when you
say that, you know, Chef, so and so or so and so says this, you go to a third party, the third party
doesn't know is basing it on your on your presumption. Lastly, so this is actually I'm not even
answering the actual question, you get the point I'm, I'm questioning the question. I'm going even
deeper and saying such a question, we need to be a little bit more careful about the issue comes in
this particular case, by the way, without mentioning the person's name, but I'm just going to tell
you without mentioning his name, that because of a previous issue, I had to do research, actually,
		

			this person does not deny the sun like this. And so the phrase, I'm just giving you an example, in
this case is true. But you don't know the person, the person that was mentioned to me by name. That
person I have done my research on him for my own project I was doing. And in fact, what he has done
is he's redefined the Sona in his own way, which is not the same as denying the Sunda. So when the
questioner comes and says, oh, Doctor, so and so denies the sooner that is very different than the
reality of the situation. And the reality is that person in this particular case would have been
unmentioned has a different definition of the sooner than we do. The word denying is not valid over
		

			here. So I will answer overall generically not about Dr. So and So generically.
		

			Anybody who says listen to me carefully. I know what I'm saying. And I'm being precise, in my words.
Anyone who says, I do not have to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu. Either. He was
seldom, I don't care what he said, I don't have to do it. That person is not a Muslim anymore. It's
very simple.
		

			It is unequivocal. If a person says, I don't care what the prophet says that said, I don't have to
follow it.
		

			This person has rejected Islam, because you cannot have Islam without obedience to the messenger of
Islam. It's simple as that. One minute Rasulullah faqad Otto Allah fella, Arabic Allah you know,
Allah gives a custom by the robe of Mohammed Sosa Nisa, for Allah wa beaker Allah could have given
custom on anything he gave the custom on the robe of Mohammed Salah lies in a by the personal
pronoun Rebecca your robe Yasuda Allah, Allah signifying how important that as soon as I swear by
your Lord rasulillah law, you know, they do not have a man had you had chemo coffee Mashallah binome
until they take you as the heck of the judge in anything that happens between them. And they submit
		

			to your judgment, without any complaint or issue. Theoretically, the Muslim says, Samir, now what
Aparna Now suppose he'd fall short in his actions, that's a sin. We all fall short, we commit a sin,
the Stanford alumni Allah forgive me, but to say, I don't have to follow the one whom Allah has sent
to you. You have not just rejected that man, you have rejected the lord of that man. So and the and
this of course, this these groups, they do exist, but they are very, very small in number. In
Pakistan, there was no mention a name here because he's established his record and he's gone. He's
not going to change now. What I'm proud of is somebody who passed away in 1955 or so. Right, Mr.
		

			Purvis annual whatever we call them of the provisional
		

			Whatever this person I can mention his name because he's established his record. And he's somebody
that should be warned against and he's gone. He cannot change his record now is there? he openly
said there is no such thing as following the sooner and so his group is called pervasive or they
call themselves Khurana Yun, here in America in Tucson, Arizona, there was somebody called Rashad
halifa. If you know the famous 19 theory, then theory of 19 which was debunked, he started it in the
1980s. And then eventually, somebody assassinated him because he claimed to be a prophet of Allah.
When he denied the sooner then he said you have to follow me instead of pseudo laws. So somebody did
		

			something that is illegal and should not be done in a non Muslim land and he assassinated him so he
died in Tucson, but Rashad halifa established your group it is still around, they're still the
masjid I drove by it once when I was in Tucson, and they call themselves the core artists, the
horror artists and they do not pray five times a day because they say five times prayer is not in
the Koran. How many times do they pray three times? Welcome is salata purify in a hurry was una
familia? ln the interpreters to me three times when they stand up to pray there is no Allahu Akbar.
In fact, they have How do they pray? You Let Them Menorca was Judo they stand up record sujood and
		

			as their Salah, they follow the Quran. It's in the Quran, right? This There are also groups in
Indonesia and Malaysia there's a group in Kerala in India as well. And they recently last year they
reach global news because they had a female led Imam Juma in India in Kerala in India. That's that
group the Khurana Yun you haven't heard of it look it up as a very small group. I think one Masjid
there, these people exist, but will lie there so miniscule mean it's just one mystery then all of
America one Masjid Tucson, Arizona, that for call themself Iranian, anybody who denies that we have
to follow the process of them. This person has negated Muhammad Rasulullah. And who told you La
		

			ilaha illAllah. Other than what Amala Sula, so there are not Muslim. Is that clear? Now we get to
the more controversial issue, the more controversial is more common than that is the notion.
		

			I'm not going to accept this Hadith, or Buhari or Muslim, or whatever book you quote me, because I
don't trust that this reflects what our Prophet says, and I'm set. So they don't deny the concept of
the sooner they deny the preservation of the sadhana. And that is a huge difference.
		

			It is a difference between a man and Cofer
		

			because when somebody says I'm not going to follow this Hadeeth Why ask him why? If he says, I don't
care, even if the process of said it, I'm not going to follow it, this is go for Akbar. He is
motivated, there is no demand for somebody who says that. If somebody says oh, this cannot be from
my profits, I said, Now, in his own mind, what he is doing, he is defending in his mind, the Profit
System from this head, Ethan body, let's say, okay, and he says, yo, if the processor was in front
of me, and he said this, okay, I'd have to accept that's fine, but I'm not going to trust him. Ahmed
Buhari, who came 256 years later. You see the difference between the two right? Now for this case,
		

			we say this is a deviation of beta. Because you see Islam. As we mentioned, some weeks ago, the
processing predicted 73 groups within the oma, this is one of those groups that okay, generally
speaking, a group that says we're gonna follow the Sunnah if we know it is the Sunnah, right? This
group is within the fold of Islam, because they're not rejecting Mohammed Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam, what they're rejecting is the preservation of the sun and we say this is dangerous. We say
this is a deviation. We say this is a bidder. We say you are potentially destroying much of Islam.
But we have to be fair, it is not kafir, in and of itself. Is that clear? The person any person who
		

			says the sooner has not been preserved? We say this person
		

			is a person of a little bit are one of the 72 groups. He is not mainstream, orthodox Sunni, but we
cannot say this person is cafard because theoretically, he is saying I want to follow the Sunnah.
But he's saying I don't agree this book you quote me is the sooner you see the difference here,
right. So this in a nutshell is the response to this question. And also, by the way, my advice to
this question and to all of us.
		

			I understand we need to get verdicts on other people and once in a while is necessary, but make sure
we do not make this our friend
		

			primary concern to put people in boxes and categorize them, or else you will waste your life talking
about others and accomplish nothing yourself. Be more concerned about yourself and your contribution
to the oma. And if somebody you feel you're not comfortable with, if you don't take from them and
remain silent, nobody can criticize you. Nobody can criticize you. But if you open your mouth and
you're not qualified and you say thing, perhaps on Judgement day if you were wrong, that person can
say give me my hug back. And what will you say in front of Allah to err on the side of caution is
better when it comes to mentioning names especially of living people and don't make this your
		

			primary goal to worry about other people make it your primary goal to you yourself contribute
positively to the oma so this I hope I answered the question without actually answering the question
insha Allah tala okay.
		

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