 Bismillahi wa s-salatu wa s-salam wa r-ranu Rasulillahi Sallallahu alayhi wa s-salam amma ba'da As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh Brothers and sisters, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you and to introduce you to a brand new show and a brand new podcast called The Hot Seat. To understand a little bit more about The Hot Seat, we first have to understand the context of the modern day world we find ourselves living in in the year 2019. It is a world in which perhaps there are more doubts, misconceptions and misinterpretations that are thrown around about the religion of Islam than in any other period of time in the history of mankind. The internet is a number one source used by people globally to acquire information on any topic and it is riddled and full of false notions and erroneous ideologies about the Dean of Allah, Aziz al-Wajal. Our kids, ourselves are being exposed to this kind of information on a daily and if not daily then at the very least weekly basis. And whether we know it or not, whether we choose to accept it or not, it is having an effect on ourselves, our hearts, our minds and ultimately our understanding of this beautiful religion. To further complicate the problem, many of us find ourselves living in western societies where the governments and the social norms and pressures are constantly trying to redefine what is good and what is bad, what is accepted and what is rejected, what Islam is and is allowed to be and what Islam is never allowed to be. All of this, my brothers and sisters, ultimately leads to confusion, it leads to ignorance and if Allah permits it can lead to misguidance. The hot seat has therefore been designed with the permission of Allah alone to counter these kind of modern day contemporary issues head on by using the knowledge and the guidance of the Muslims of the past, the early generations of Muslims, the best of generations. There's not a single Muslim on the face of the planet today that would doubt the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala completed our religion for us over 1400 years ago and that that completed, holistic, perfect religion is just as applicable now in the year 2019 as it was back then. We truly do have classical solutions for contemporary problems. However, this isn't your normal average Islamic lecture series. First of all, it's not a lecture, it's a discussion between two parties often opposing parties in an attempt to reach the truth by idnila and secondly and perhaps more importantly it's a unique one of its kind interactive podcast where you from the comfort of your own home have the opportunity to vote for and to choose the topic we'll be discussing on the show. You also have the chance to ask your own questions on these contemporary issues and to grill the speaker if you feel like he hasn't been grilled enough on the show itself. I'll be releasing details of how you can do both of those things at the end of this episode. But for now, without any further ado, let's get into this episode of The Hot Seat. The Hot Seat In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. Peace be upon His Messenger, the Compassionate. Peace be upon you, and peace be upon you. Peace be upon you, and peace be upon you. And congratulations, I'm joined once again with Ustad Abdur-Rahman Hassan. May Allah preserve him, and may He protect him. How are you doing today, Ustad? Praise to Allah, it was a great pleasure. We have another Q&A session in front of us. This time we're taking the viewers' questions on the episode release called why follow hadiths isn't the Quran enough. I've got about four questions for you and without further ado I'll get straight into them inshaAllah. The first one is who told us to follow Imam al-Bukhari? Is this not considered blind following? Are we following Imam al-Bukhari or are we following his hadith that he's transmitted to us? Blind following would be if we follow Bukhari and what he says, his own opinions. As for taking the narrations that he has transmitted from us that he has subscribed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and if you go back to the podcast I mentioned that the hadiths that are in sahih al-Bukhari even if we lost sahih al-Bukhari or we didn't have sahih al-Bukhari all of those hadiths are found in other books of hadith scattered all over the place. So Bukhari what he did was he just put all of those authentic narrations together so taking the narrations from Bukhari is different from taking his opinion. Taking his opinion can be considered to be blind following him. Also the term blind following means blind following means taking the opinion of another person without no evidence but if you take another person's opinion based on evidence that's not called Okay the next question I have for you is since the hadith have not been preserved letter by letter or word for word what do we say about rulings extracted from the wordings of the hadiths for example the prohibition of shaving the bid. The hadith regarding letting your bid grow we have many wordings that have come we have the wording that says different wordings say mean let the bid grow release it all of those wordings are different but they all mean the same which is not to touch the bid so many different companions have narrated different wordings but when we look at all of their wordings they all mean letting the bid grow without touching it so here we're seeing a common meaning between all of those narrations even though the meaning can be different it's as I said before it's like a person saying about another person so and so is good another person comes and says he's righteous another person comes and he says he's virtuous another person comes and he says he's noble another person comes and he says he's nice I mean they all have said roughly the same none of them has criticized them criticized him they've all praised him. Okay the next question I have is it enough for a person to quote Bukhari and muslim as a proof instead of narrating the chain for the hadith since these scholars did not give authority to the people to narrate from them in a sense it's correct that a person has a ejaza to the book because it's true you have to understand how the book works how the book is so for you to have a chain from yourself to the author generally it's a good thing it's a good thing and it makes it it gives it some form of presidents or importance the fact that you have a senate who did you take Bukhari from who did he your teacher take it from and then we can look back at where it goes to but do you have to have a senate from yourself to remember Bukhari in order to say that the hadith is this Sahel Bukhari no not at all because the time that Bukhari was relying on chain is finished now they call it asr tadweem the time in which hadith were recorded with chain is now gone we don't now record hadith with chain anymore and the scholars they said scholars of hadith they say man asnada faqad ahalak anyone who gives you a chain of narration he's done his job so if I tell you the hadith is the Sahel Bukhari you just have to verify what is in there what it means what's the context you can verify I've just pointed to you the the place that it's in okay the final question I have for you is is the hadith of the 72 sex authentic recent discussions have come out to say that these hadiths are not authentic to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the hadith hadith alif tiraq is known as hadith of if tiraq 72 73 hadith alif tiraq is known as this hadith many great scholars of hadith those who we can say that they are mountains in hadith have authenticated it from them is al imam al tirmili who narrated in issunan al imam al hakim al juz al jurgali rahimahullah al imam bayhaki al baghawi ibn al qudama or bakra tortoshi al iraqi al shatibi ibn utami ibn al qayyim ibn hajar al boosiri al zahabi ibn kathir soyotir rahimahullah ibn al wazir al yamani safari niya rahimahullah al shawkani sadeekh hasankhan al imam al san'ani ibn abazz ibn uthimin al al bani muqbiru ibn hadil wadi'i and also amir san'ani said there is no doubt that it's authentically transmitted in the books of the sunnah he said there's no debate a group of scholars did we get it like ibn hazam rahimahullah ibn hazam the scholars they said he has gharai when it comes to authentication he's not a person who's referred to when it comes to issues of hadith like this because he is a person who this is not his this is not his field of expertise he's criticized al imam al tirmidi for instance because he's never read sunnah al tirmidi and he referred to tirmidi as a person who's much who is unknown and he has other hadith which he weakens he's trying to weaken the hadith of music which is the sahih al bukhari so he has ghara'ib and that's why iraqi says in his al fiyah don't give your attention to ibn hazam who opposes us in this issue also there's another man by his name called haasan al saqaf who used to be a sufi a very deviate sufi he wrote a kitab called he's a sufi and now he became a sheer you know he insult abu awi and others and abdul hamal abdul khaliq as well he tried to weaken the hadith like in the ulama we just mentioned who has great knowledge and understanding and who we go back to when it comes to hadith they all authenticated the hadith they classed it to be authentic now so the overwhelming majority of the scholars authenticate today including the 15 or 16 specialist of hadith that you mentioned they're by name 26 26 yeah 26 scholars of hadith all graded which i named them all of them read the hadith to be sahih if it wasn't for due to the podcast below we could go through each hadith and each sanad and each riwayan to prove that that's the case so it's not just that we're naming all of these people to push away the or push our argument forward by mentioning big names but rather there's their argument is very strong so they are a large in number and plus we can look at the senate and we'll see the truth is with them but a lot of the times if you look at those who weaken this hadith it's not due to them being specialists in this field or being people of knowledge when it comes to this field of hadith they do it because of the meaning that's in the hadith hadith divides the muslims so if you're from a particular group such as ikhwan and muslimin who you know have a qa'idah which is we will work with each other in what we agree upon and we will we will excuse each other for our differences if that's the qa'idah that you're built on and that's what you believe in this hadith is problematic for you it's a problematic hadith so you can't explain the meaning you can see it's strong it's tough it's there it's in your face so you have to resort to weakening it and that's not something new bwusiri sorry beijouri he said in his he said every text that you see that has that gives a lot of characteristics you see he said in other words don't accept it try to find a way to curve and corrupt the meaning if that doesn't work for me you say Allah I don't know because laqani and beijouri and others they were not good at hadith but these ones they've maybe they'll play around with the hadith and say it's weak we're in kanafi sahib bukhari even if it's sahib bukhari excellent jazak allahu khayran just a reminder to those who are listening or watching if they do want to ask any questions on any of the topics we discuss on the podcast you can email us at questions at thehotseatpodcast.com i hope you enjoyed and benefited from that discussion please do share it with your friends and family members if you feel like they might benefit too and don't forget to hit that subscribe button below so you're notified of any new episodes check out www.thehotseatpodcast.com that's the hotseatpodcast.com on there you'll find a little bit more information about the podcast and you'll also 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