 Our dear viewers, welcome to another episode of the Master of Messengers. In our previous show, we mentioned that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala, our beloved Prophet peace be upon him and his purified progeny and family, that he advocated the Muslims to write and to compile hadiths and traditions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and to gather them and to save them and to pass them down from generation to generation. Furthermore, we mentioned that there was an opposition and this opposition started at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and this opposition continued through the hands of Quraish when they would submit those who gathered and compiled hadiths of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala to refrain from gathering the hadiths of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala because he was not infallible and his words were not directly from Allah s.w.t all the time. Use that as an excuse. Also we mentioned that the opposition, the second part of the opposition started merely with the departure of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala from this world. To be precise, this opposition, the second part of the opposition started when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala was on his deathbed. And he had gathered the Muslims for him to give them his last words of advice. This day was known as the catastrophe of Thursday or raziyat yawm al khamis or raziyat al khamis. When Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala gathered with all the Muslims or the majority of those who lived in the city of Medina in his home and he told them that bring me a pen and a paper so I can write you a book and through this book you will never stray from the laws and guidelines of Allah s.w.t and at that moment a man stood from the crowd and the congregation raising his voice in the face of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala hasbuna kutabullah that all we need is the book of Allah s.w.t and he kept repeating these words and of course the congregation erupted those who did not agree with this man and those who agreed with this man and their voices became loud and they started to yell at one another until Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala told them to leave his home and this was done by Umar ibn al kutab on the last days of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala so this campaign started at the time of the departure of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala very crucial times for the muslim ummah basically a time where the future of Islam was destroyed and hijacked by those who came with these words hasbuna kutabullah and this became a campaign against the tradition and the history and sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala that every time people would refer back to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala the opposition would raise their slogan that we only need the book of Allah the holy Quran that we do not need the words of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala even though that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the holy Quran says that the prophet of Islam and his messenger does not speak from himself unless it is through revelation so the words the true words of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala did not differ from the revelation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as we mentioned previously in the last episode that Jibrail alayhi sallam would descend upon Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and he would teach him his sunnah and he would teach him his traditions in an increasing amount or a great amount of sources in some schools of thought within the Muslims the Umar ibn al-Khattab would command every single preacher from the Ansar and the Sahaba and the companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala to minimize from the hadiths of our beloved beloved prophet and to only stick with the Quran and for those who did continue to speak or to advocate the hadiths of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala they were imprisoned they were prosecuted for example Ubay ibn ka'ab or Abu Musa al-ash'ari they were both prosecuted and taken into court and custody for their crime was that they had mentioned hadiths from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and one or several different references and sources that one day Umar ibn al-Khattab joined the Ansar who were leaving the city of Medina to the city of Kufa and he walked with them to the end of the city or the outskirts of the city the borderline of the city and he told them that when you reach the city of Kufa the people of Iraq will say that the companions of Muhammad have arrived to our city so of course without a doubt they will come and ask you of the traditions and hadiths of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and everything that you will say they will nod their heads in acceptance but what I ask from every single one of you is that you stop and minimize the spread of the traditions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and you only stick with the Quran so this became a campaign the campaign of Hasbuna Kitabullah moreover this persecution grew to a larger scale and some of the companions of the Prophet those who were very close to our beloved Prophet were placed under house arrest for example like al-Zubayr he came to ask for permission to leave for Umrah but Umar ibn al-Khattab refused to let him leave for Umrah for his excuse was that you will cause mischief in the Ummah of Rasulullah by spreading the hadiths of our own Prophet people like al-Zubayr, ibn al-Mas'ud, ibn al-Dardaa, ibn al-Ghufari were placed under house arrest for they would refer back to the hadiths and traditions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and of course this opposition grew stronger it grew stronger as days went by as mentioned in the previous show as soon as our beloved Prophet passed away Abu Bakr got rid of the five hundred hadiths that he had written from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala as if as soon as our Prophet departed his this life in this world his traditions his hadiths also departed from the lives of these people they had no longer anything to do with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa a'ala and they came with this new agenda this agenda of hasbuna kitabullah and when Umar was asked that why such behavior he had several responses one of them was that I fear that the Muslims will walk in the same footsteps of the nations that came before them for example the nation of Moses or the people of Moses the Jews or the people of Isabna Maryam alayhum sallam the Christians that they will take the books written by their scholars and they will neglect the book Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and one of his words he says moshnat kamoshnata ahlul kitab referring to the gamara and the Mishnah of the Torah of Jews today that these books were written from scholars and people neglected the books of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala thus I will stand before the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi and I will not allow them to spread within the Muslims so they do not become like the Mishnah and the gamara of the Jews and the Talmud Talmud the book of the Jews other words of Omar ibn al khattab he says the actions of the Muslims remind me of the nations before us for they took for they took the books of their scholars and they left the words of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and they abandoned the books of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala there is no comparison when it comes to the words of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi la yantigu anil hawa inhu wa illa wahyun yuha and if we continue to seek what happened at the time of his ruling even people such as Abu Hurayrah if you refer back to his biography in the sources that we will share with you in the screen below Abu Hurayrah says at the ruling of Omar anyone who mentioned the hadith from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi or merely gave a hadith starting with Qala Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi he was persecuted and he was sentenced to jail so Muslims stopped stopped bringing up the tradition and the hadiths of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi merely years after the departure of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi now mentioning the burning of hadiths that occurred after the death of Rasulullah or the departure of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi in the book of Taqeeb al-Ailm lil khatib al-Baghdadi the author of this book taqeeb al-Ailm al-khatib al-Baghdadi the Baghdadi preacher as a translation in volume one pages 38 Abu Hurayrah says that we gathered all the traditions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi by the command of Omar from all around the Muslim world Islam had spread throughout the whole Middle East throughout Asia at the departure of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi as a ruler he wrote a book commanding all those who had written or documented anything regarding Rasulullah hadith tradition or history for them to bring their books for they wanted to make an encyclopedia or a very large amount of books and to document every single one of them so instead of having thousands and thousands of books from several different people or hundreds or thousands of different people we have one book that gathers all the hadith of Rasulullah his tradition his surna and his history and he says the Muslims did do so but when they gathered when they gathered the books and all in one place they set them to fire and the hadiths and their tradition and history or history of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi that was written by the companions by the people of Medina by those who had converted to Islam and the religion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala were set to fire and it was demolished brothers and sisters our dear viewers what i have just mentioned actually occurred within the Muslims it is documented in our books these are not the words of Muzaffar qazweeni everything that has been mentioned today on this show is documented as historical events in several different books different sources reliable sources to some schools of thought within the Muslims unfortunately our time has come to an end but we will continue the sweet talk of the tradition of the master of messengers so follow me Muzaffar al qazweeni on our show the master of messengers