 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثاناء الجميل واشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل واشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدينة أما بعد نحن نتبقى المساعدة أو المساعدة تدويلوا السنة في last week we spoke about مكانة السنة مكانة السنة تدويل في مكانة السنة أو مكانة السنة أو مكانة السنة في إسلام مالذي يعني ؟ مكانة السنة تدويلة في إسلام نحن نتحدث عن ذلك وقد أحضرت ذلك من أين ؟ من القرآن ؟ من السنة ؟ ومن أقوال السلف ؟ مالذي يتحدث عن ذلك ؟ سلفة سلفة سلفة سلفة سلفة when we say we mean قرون المفضلة the three golden generation the importance that they gave it and the way that I said we are going to discuss the three golden generation the importance that they gave it and the way that I said we are going to discuss the way that the self gave it importance is by breaking it into two because we said self right so breaking into two number one is the way that the companions gave the importance examples number one we said اتباعهم بها how they followed it اتباعهم بها means what the way that they followed it and they adhere to it was amazing and that's an indication of what how important the sunnah was to them and I gave you a lot of examples today we are going to speak about اتحري واتتبوتي في ميرونة we are going to speak about this and we are going to finish this off إن شاء الله و تعالى last week I didn't add this one to it ارحلة في طالب الحديث so it's a very good example for me طالب الحديث so if you haven't written it thinking that you wrote it last week then remember I've added one point to it إن شاء الله و تعالى which I believe is very important but here is the second way that the companions venerated glorified honored the sunnah and that's in what way اتحري واتتبوتي في ميرونة how diligent and how they verified what they were going to narrate they didn't just narrate and I'm going to give you examples إن شاء الله و تعالى اتتاب he said سمعتوا أنا سبن ماليك أنا سبن ماليك this is an example for what how the Sahabas were diligent and how they would make sure that what they were saying and what they were attributing to the Prophet was accurate they didn't want to do normal mistakes اتابن he said I heard أنا سبن ماليك أنا سبن ماليك was the slave of the Prophet for how many years 10 years أنا سبن ماليك لو لاني أخشا if it was not because I was scared if I was not scared if I was not scared أنا أخطأ أنا أخطأ for me to do a mistake لحدث تقن بأشياء if I was not scared I was not scared of doing a mistake I would have told you of some things سمعتوها من رسول الله which I heard from the Prophet I'm scared I might do a mistake I'm scared that I might say something about the Messenger of Allah but I was wrong if I wasn't scared of that I would have told you everything I heard from the Prophet but what does he mean here he means every letter every word every information that he's passing on he said I want to make sure that I'm accurate and because I'm scared I'm not going to are you with me brothers this is the the importance the sunnah meant to the what to the companions because they know the Prophet SAW said سمعتوها من النار سمعتوها من النار anyone who lies about me and attributes to me that which I have not said let him prepare his place in the Hellfire anyone who attributes to me and says about me that which I did not say سمعتوها من النار let him prepare his place in the what in the Hellfire some of the scholars like ألمام الأصمعي they said if a person reads the Hadith of the Prophet SAW wrong he reads the Hadith wrong by placing a Karaka wrong شكل they said he lied about the Prophet فليتة بول مقعده من النار why because the Prophet was an eloquent speaker his Arabic wasn't bad and so when you speak and you say the Prophet said and then you do grammatical mistakes and you speak wrong you are attributing to the Messenger that he is a person who speaks like this and the Prophet was what احسنوما نطاق بضاد the most eloquent man but with me brothers some of you are but the point is how serious the matter is seriousness of it so the Sahabas they knew the weight of the Sunnah and so they used to verify look what Anas went on to say وَذَاكَ اَنْيسَ مِعْتُهُ the reason why I can't tell you everything I heard from the Prophet because I'm scared I might do a mistake because I heard the Prophet SAW and anyone who lies about the Prophet let him prepare his place further in the Hellfire so Anas ibn Malik according to him if you do a mistake by attributing to the Prophet SAW which he did not say by accident mistake not intentionally it falls under even if it was what a mistake why the Arabs anything that opposes the correctness of something is a lie to them كذب كذب to the Arabs is what مخالفة الصواب ام مجانبة الصواب if a person goes against what's right in his speech the Arabs say whether you intended it or not بغض النظر بغض النظر what did they call that كذب that's what the messenger SAW said to their man who gave a verdict he was a صحابي he gave a verdict he was asked about a حكم شرعي he gave a ruling and then the messenger said كذب أبو سنابل كذب أبو سنابل كذب here means what he went against the truth he didn't intend it are you with me brothers so for them anything that goes because the one who lies intentionally and the one who doesn't lie intentionally both of them have told you something wrong true or false the sim of course it's different one is sinning one is not sinning but both of them have told you and incorrect information they call that كذب so the صحابي didn't even like to do a mistake they knew that that could fall under the حديث of God من كذب علي متعميدا فلي يتبو أما قعدهم من النار what does this teach us the way that our religion is protected brothers حتى our صحابة and the علاماء will after that they didn't want to do a mistake and they were that serious with regards to the transmission of this deen are you with me brothers another example محمد ملسيرين he said if he narrated a حديث وكان إذا حدث عن رسول الله أناس was a person whenever he told a حديث from the Prophet ﷺ at the ending he would say اوه that which the Prophet said meaning اوه كما قاله here means this is the overview meaning what the Prophet was trying to say he was scared اوه كما قاله like this the Prophet said every time he finished a حديث he would say اوه كما قال رسول الله ولي ذلك علاماء they mentioned from that if you know a حديث but you don't know it word for word so you don't fool under من كدب علي متعميدا فليتبوا مقعده من النار do and it's done here which is say اوه كما قال رسول الله say that somebody asked you a question and you said I remember a hadith I can't say word for word I haven't memorized the word for word but this is the meaning of what's in the hadith and at the end you say اوه كما قال رسول الله رسول الله so this shows you how right how they were diligence in that which they transmitted also شعبي ابن السيرين both of them شعبي عمر ابن الشراحيل he said شعبي and محمد ابن السيرين both of them they said عبد اللهبن مسعود كان إذا حدث عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم whenever he would talk about the messenger his face would become a different color عبد اللهبن مسعود his face would change when he would say something about the prophet when he would mention something about the prophet and then he would say هاكده او نحوه he kept saying this or something like this being scared that he doesn't want to kill a رسول الله to say this the fear in عبد اللهبن مسعود's heart again why مكانة سنة the weight that the sunnah held in these people's mind this is how it was ولذلك مالك ابن عنس whenever somebody would ask him to tell him a hadith of the prophet عليه السلام or if he would say a hadith of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام عليه السلام المالك would go and shower and he would comb his hair and he would brush his teeth and then he would say قارر رسول الله and he would mention a hadith with his train why venerating and respecting the hadith of the prophet the مكانة it held for him are you with me brothers ولذلك مالك ابن عنس gave the fatwa that in the city of Medina no one can ride a beast of the land because the prophet is buried there no one is allowed to mount a riding beast in Medina مالك ابن عنس said nobody can do that he was a scholar of what of Medina so what does this show us brothers the way that they respected it ولذلك there is a line of poetry by عبدالله ابن حاج الشنقيطي ونس كتاب مراك السعود لمبتغير رقي والسعود he says ابرع يقول لادري فكله تبع ولكل من اهل المناحه والسعود when they were asked about an issue of the religion and they thought they may not know it what would they say يقول لادري I don't know والكل من اهل المناحي والسعود فأنتم إتفاقهم و أخبرتهم أنهم لم تكنوا أعلمين ، يقولوا لا أدني فا كون متبعة فإذا كنتم إتفاقهم فا كون متبعة فأنا أردتهم في هذا لا تكون هناك شخص الذي يوجد جرأة جرأة يعني ماذا؟ عندما يسألون لك شيء مجددا أعلم ، أعلم ، أعلم ، أعلم قال رسول الله و سمعنا و ترميه لك انتظر إلى هذا الأمر أطائب مسائب فيه سمعت عبد الرحمن ابن أبي ليلة عبد الرحمن ابن أبي ليلة is a tabi'i he's a what? he's a tabi'i he met 120 companions عبد الرحمن ابن أبي ليلة how many companions? he's a tabi'i he met 120 companions عبد الرحمن ابن أبي ليلة look what he said he was pointing at the prophet's mystery in this mystery 120 companions 120 companions I met in the prophet's mystery وما منهم and from amongst them there was not one من أحد يحدث who speak about the prophet's حديث إلا ود أن أخاه كفا except that he would wish that his other brother would take the responsibility of answering the question 120 companions I met in the prophet's mystery and every one of them when they were asked a question a hadith of the prophet's he would look for the other companion to answer this question ود أخاه كفا he would wish that his brother to take that responsibility for him they don't want to talk about it everyone is worried from what من كدب علي متعمدا فليتبوا مقعدهم من النار والحديث حديث حديث is a severe issue this concludes this point for us which is what brother is verifying and making sure that what you are saying the prophet said it even if you narrate a hadith which is weak and you do not research and you just narrate it like that it falls under من كدب علي متعمدا فليتبوا مقعدهم من النار do your research find out if the hadith is right because you do not want to attribute to the prophet that which he is free from that which he did not say the reason is because the messenger of the prophet his words are not like the words of any ordinary person is it? when I say something you look at it if it is good you take it when you answer if it is good everybody his speech is either taken or is rejected our speech is between the answer as for the messenger it has to be taken there is no ifs no buts since he has that weight then make sure since everybody is going to follow him do not attribute to the prophet or that which he did not do عليه الصلاة والسلام so what have we is very vital we finish the companions now the two examples I gave regarding the companions what does it show us how the companions were when it came to the sunnah now we are going to go into the tabi'een and this is not only the tabi'een the tabi'u tabi'een as well so they all in the same example after they share this the first one is العيناية تبحيضها the importance that they gave the importance that they gave to memorizing it this is the same as the companions even the companions were memorizing the hadith صحيح so this is same as them memorization the difference here brothers is this مرحلة and I want you to memorize this principle memorize this principle memorize it every generation that's closer to the time of the messenger has less disunity مو خير in their speech the more distance a generation is in the timeline the more distance a generation is the more this unity the more words that they have to use to explain themselves the prophet he would say to a man he came to him and he said say to me in Islam something that I don't need to ask anyone other than you and then the messenger said أول أمان تبي الله أول أمان تبي الله if you sit down and you want to explain this speech volumes this whole religion أول أمان تبي الله he would say something small like this but he would have scholars would come and write 40-50 pages or volumes صحب the sahabas were like that they spoke less their speech had no barakah because they were closer to the time of the messenger when they got the scholars they said it used to just be one dot it was just one dot everybody understood it who came then the ignorant ones came and they made so many dots but what about this looking from this angle with me brothers everything was easy to the point they came and they made it a war but have you seen it from this angle an argument and dispute and khilaf and no and this and think like this and it became more and then more explanations and more principles had to come and more sciences are you with me brothers so this is the qaeda that you need to memorize the more a generation is closer to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the more united that they are the more their speech their speech has barakah in it and it has more of an effect to the heart than anything else has a wak'a in the heart it touches people's hearts are you with me brothers now we are in the timeline we are 1400 something from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's time how can we gain the unity and how can we gain the barakah in our speech we have to go back to those texts those texts of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to study it then even though we are down on the timeline we will become like that because of the fact that we are living with what he صلى الله عليه وسلم said and did does that make sense that's an important principle that we need to understand so now what we learn is at the time of the and at the time of the was it the same he problem started a bit we're going to speak about that later but they had to do more things to honor the sunnah more things that they had to come with and from the things number one is they memorized it number two is a question about the sunnah oh chain they had to start asking about the chain the narrators who did you hear this from and who did he hear from and who did he hear until the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but at the time of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم why because the sahabas were all reliable all of them الله سبحانه وتعالى سلوى السابقون الأولون من المهاجرين والانصاري والذين اتبعوهم بإحسان رضي الله عنهم مهاجرين أنصار الله is pleased with all of them so the sahabas are reliable no one needs to ask about them like in anyone after the companions we need to know who his name is where was he born, who did he take from how long did he stay there and what did he not do and what information so that's number two number three is البحث في أحواله ونقلت الأخبار researching even though the person is reliable but there is no research what about if he did a mistake when you heard it from this scholar who was with you okay go what do you hear different who else was there let's go to that person and verifying that even if he is reliable and he is a good person but maybe he is a person with memorization is bad so number three is what number four sorry في أحواله researching the narrators their situation ونقلت الأخبار and those who transmitted the narrations to us looking into them are you with me brothers and investigating and critically analyzing them okay we'll see that number four is تدوين recording all of that for us what did the scholars record pay attention later we'll see in more details they recorded for us books what did these books have حديث these books they had حديث وطع من مالي كان وطع المصنف وطع في عبد الرزاق ونلتو الأجزاء جزء في رفع اليديين بي بوخاري and other books هل يتبعون هذه الأشخاص؟ هل يتبعونها كذلك؟ لا هل يتبعون الأشخاص على ماذا؟ العلم الرجال. ماذا يعني؟ العلم الرجال. الأشخاص who are in this book, in the chain, they wrote their biographies for you in a book. So if you want to look at the person who is in the chain, you can go and look him up when he was born, where he was born, who he took knowledge from everything. They done Tedouin Sunnah for you. They documented it for you. You can now go and read Bukhari. Every single narrator in Sahih Al-Bukhari, you go to the Kitab, تهديب الكمال بأب الحجاج المزي. Are you with me brothers? And you find every individual in Sahih Al-Bukhari in there, their biographies there for you. Are you with me brothers? Then people said, تهديب الكمال maybe is nine, ten volumes. Speak a book. I can't read it. The heavy came and he made it. تهديب تهديب. And he organized it for you. And that became four volumes. People said we still can't read it. مغلبي came. He summarized it even more. People said we still can't read it. ابن حجر came, he summarized it again. And then he summarized it again and he summarized it again. Until it became one volume. You can see the person's full name and where they were born. Just quick information. Are you with me brothers? All of this is Tedouin Sunnah documented for you. Are you with me brothers? Are you know so sad brothers? It's actually sad. It hurts a Muslim's heart which is these books, their manuscripts are now present in the western world. When the Muslims went to sleep, the western when they colonized the Muslim world they took those manuscripts. They were fascinated how everything is documented, how everything is written. And now you're finding Muslim scholars who are traveling to gather these manuscripts and where are they taking it from? The British Library. I went there to lie. In the British Library there are manuscripts. The works of the great scholars are there. France. Belgium. Germany. Turkey, Alhamdulillah. Are you with me brothers? When we went to sleep, our scholars in the legacy that they put together it was all taken and it's been put there. In the Islam museum you have to pay money to take it. Are you with me brothers? And you have to sign and take it and etc. And they'll keep the original and they'll give you a copy. Tedouin Sunnah. Everything was documented for us. Are you with me brothers? Our whole religion is written for us. And the last one is Ar-Ri-H-La-Feef-Pala Bil-Hadeef. The scholars they traveled. They cut distance. They left their children and their families. They were away for years. Some of them they came back 3-4 years later to their hometown. Their cities. All of that for what reason? To bring the Hadith together. To organize things. Are you with me brothers? Let me give you some examples. Insha'Allah. So the first one I want to give you example of is the issue of the time of the companions whenever a person said قال رسول الله everybody would listen. But the time of the Tabe'een when somebody said قال رسول الله it wasn't the same weight. It wasn't the same weight. Things changed. Listen to the story. And take notes down. Insha'Allah. مجاهد he said جاء بشير العدوي. بشير العدوي. He came to عبد الله من عباس. عبد الله من عباس city somewhere. بشير came and he came to Ibn Abbas. And he spoke to him. فجعل يحدث. He started to give narrations. Hadith of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم. قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. He said this. ابن عباس is sitting there. ابن عباس not giving him any attention. And he's not looking at him. عبد الله من عباس. It would have been that he would listen. قال رسول الله. He didn't. Then when he saw Ibn Abbas he's not giving him any importance and he's not listening to what he has to say. He said to him يا ابن عباس او ابن عباس مالي لا اراك. Why is it that I don't hear you? I don't hear you. I don't see you. Sorry. تسمعوا الحديث. You're not giving any attention to me. You're not listening to the حديث that I'm telling you. وحديثك ع الرسول الله. I'm telling you about the مسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم. ولا تسمعوا. And you're not listening. You're looking around. You're not paying attention. فقال ابن عباس. ابن عباس. He said. إنا كنا مرة. There was a time once upon a time. إذا السمعنا رجلا. If we had a man. يقول. قال رسول الله. He said. قال رسول الله. What would we do? ابتدرت. أبصارنا. We would straight away look at him. Everybody in the room would stop what they would do. And they would drop it. And they would gaze at him. واصغينا إليه بأذاننا. And our ears would go directly to his direction. We would want to hear what he's saying. فلما ركب الناس. When the people started lying. الصعبة والدلول. Everybody started to say what he wants. Lying started. صحص واثنس. Weird out. لم نأخد من الناس إلا ما نعرف. We'll only take from those who we know. If a person we know says it. Our eyes and our ears is with him. If somebody we don't know says it. We don't give them any attention. Because what happened here? فيتن. Are you with me brothers? إمام المسلم بيضه فيه مقدمة. The time changed. This is not the time of صحابة. This is the time of what time was this? The followers. وليداليك محمد المسيرين. Who is the follower? He said إنها العلم دين. People. The sunnah is your religion. This is a religion. It's your deed. فنظرو عما تأخذون دينك. Look who you take your religion from. And this is the truth today. Like with me brothers. If today you had a doctor. And somebody said to you this doctor is not reliable. الله is not reliable. This doctor is dangerous. Be careful. He's not true doctor. His certificate is forged. His qualifications are not right. You would say to the person I'm not going. Just by that speculation that is through to you. Would you stop going? I'm not going. I can't let somebody play with my health. True or false. وما بالكب دينك. What about your religion? To move valuable to you then. That's your رأس المال. It's the most valuable thing that you can ever have your deal. So look at who you take your deal from. Observe the person. وليداليك and the scholars. They used to not just look at the person's علم. They used to look at his صلاح. كانوا ينظرون إلى سمتي. They look at how he carries himself. And the way he is. When they see that he passed the test. Then they will go forward and take knowledge from him. بحمد المصيرين يساين إن هذا الأمر دينون. فنظروا عما تأخذون دينكم. Look what he said also. لا يكونوا يسألون عن الإسنات. They never used to ask about the chain. فلما وقعات الفتنة. When the fitna happened. The killing of Uthman happened. The Khawarij came. The Shi'a who came. And the Mu'taz and groups came. And the Qadariya and et cetera. قالوا. The people started to say. سمو لنا رجع لكم. And the people started to say. سمو لنا رجع لكم. And the people started to say. سمو لنا رجع لكم. And the people started to say. And the people started to say. سمو لنا رجع لكم. Tell us your men. Who are the men that you took from? Who did you take this hadith from? فينظروا إلى أهل السنة. They will look at the person who is from Ahl al-Sunnah. فيؤخذوا حديثهم. And their hadith will be taken. وينظروا إلى أهل البداع. And the people of innovation. And when it is realized that it is from the innovators. فلا يؤخذوا حديثهم. No one will take this hadith. They will reject it. They will put it to the side. So they would verify. And they would fail things. The religion was protected through this. وذلك عبد الله مبارك. And he said. الأسناد من الدين. The chain is our religion. What does it mean? The chain is our religion. How do we know what the prophet said? And what he didn't say? Through the chain. الأسناد من الدين. أسناد is from our religion. ولول الإسناد لقال من شاء ما شاء. And if it wasn't for the chain. Everybody would have claimed whatever he wants. And brothers. Anyone today who studies العلم الحديث. The science of hadith. If they apply this in their day to day life. No one would oppress anyone. صحيح. Twitter and Instagram. Somebody would spread an allegation on somebody. صح. فولان did this to me. فولان said this. Somebody would just come and say something. Just a little tweet. صح. You re-tweet it. Some people would spread it. And they would say this happened. Who is the person who said it you don't know as much who is known to you? Are you with me brothers? Where is the source of this information? No-one knows. Are you with us. Well maybe this is the science. If people apply it in their day to day lives. Many divorces will not happen. صح. And marriages would have remained. لأقال من شاء ما شاء إذا لم يكن لديه محاولة كل محاولة ستكون نفسها و that's the truth الشخص who is lying and the one who is telling the truth what makes them different the chain when we go and research we realize who is telling the truth or not but we have to verify many of the people they don't do that so they started to do this verification, authentication, observation when we go and add due to this I want you to ponder the books that were authored which were written by the scholars there were two types books that were true and books that had the truth and Ba'if are you with me brothers? why did they write the Ba'if so you can know it? this is Ba'if just know it are you with me brothers? they documented even made up they wrote books on the hadith which are the fabricated hadith that were made they all wrote that for you and put it in a place for you are you with me brothers? all the hadiths which are they wrote it for you somewhere all the hadiths which are in between they wrote it in there for you everything is here do you want to find all the made up hadiths? there are books for it and the blue jersey has a full volume books and all the fabricated hadith all the made up hadith on the message are you with me brothers? he plays in somewhere the hadith which are books just on Ba'if nothing else Ba'if has it so you know it so you can stay away from it and they also wrote a hadith which are all of this was for what reason brothers? so you take the صحيح and you leave the Ba'if so sometimes some people they would go and they would take the book they would take hadith from where? the Ba'if and they would start start narrating it like it's a what? are you with me brothers? it's sad because I remember one خطيب one خطيب he used to do خطبة الجمعة and do you know where he used to take his hadiths from? and more and what from Moses's the fabricated the hadiths was his reference point for what? حتى doesn't know the name of the book and the cover and what the book deals with even your brothers this is a problem now we're gonna go into the last point which is رحلة في طالب العلم before we go into the next class which is how they traveled the scholars actually went out of their way and what did they do? ولماذا يفعلون ؟ لقد قمت بعمل ولذلك يمكنني أن يقوم بعمل هذه الوصولة يحيب المعين يقول إنه يحيب المعين يحيب المعين يقول اربعة لا تؤنس منهم رشتة اربعة من الناس لا تستطيعون منهم أي قاعدة الوصولة ونجم لا تتوقع من اربعة من الناس والذين يخبرون عنهم ومن الأسدل ومن الأسدل يدعم الجميع في بلده يعمل جميع الكثير بحديث في كل بلده لا يرحل في الطلاب العل ولا يرحل في الطلاب الحديث ونرحال لا يتعلم يجب أن يتعلم من that person guidance and a lot of wisdom. The one who stays in his hometown and he just learns that and he stays there and he never leaves. يحب المعين and he said don't expect to get from him the wisdom and don't expect to get from him what Guidance because the one who travels he left his comfort zone. He left his home. He left his bed و عندما يتحدث ، هل فقط تعتقد أنه يأتي مع العلم الحديث؟ أو هل يدع out of things on the way؟ يدع out different cultures. يدع out how different people think. يدع out how to deal with other people. يدع out how to carry himself. يدع out a lot of things. يدع out the land with them he gathered. و عندما يتحدث معك ، علمه يدع out wisdom inside it. ليس فقط ما يدع out information he gathered. يدع out how to deal with other people. يدع out another benefit. يدع out how to deal with other people. يدع out how to deal with other people. إن الله تعالى ، هذا هو ، يدع out everyone a little. إن الله تعالى يدفع البلاءة. الله يدع out the words. هذا المتحدة يسرع. إن الله يدفع البلاءة. الله يدع out the words. من ماذا؟ عن هذه الأمة. هذه الأمة برحلة أصحاب الحديث. لأن يسرع الناس of the people of Hadith. يسرع و يدع out their home town. و يدع out their cities. و يدع out other places to gain the knowledge of Hadith. و يدع out other places to gain the knowledge of Hadith. الله تعالى يدفع. أين أنه يدفع؟ الم melanهمons في مولانا. إنه جZA. أنت تتهجف عن.. indeed. هي Dansには أ og انهم يمتلون في المدينة ، في المدينة ، some of them walked and never took no riding beast بقية المخلصة ، I never took a riding beast you know where he came from brothers he came from Andalus modern times Spain and where did he walk to Baghdad Iraq wow to me who احمد ابن حنبل and you know what happened when he reached Iraq he came to Baghdad and he's entering Baghdad they told him he walked no ride no horse no camel he reached Baghdad as soon as he reached Baghdad they told him ايمام احمد is in house prison he's not allowed to narrate the leader put him in what his house prison he's cannot leave the house his house was arrested أحمد cannot leave أحمد cannot narrate so I came to the مسجد sad heart broken I traveled for months I come to Baghdad to meet أحمد ابن محمد ابن حنبل now I'm told he's in his house he's prison he cannot come out he cannot talk to anybody the government has put sanctions on him so he went into the message and he sat down as he was sitting in the message he saw a man this man was narrating حديث and the people would ask him about a man and they would say what do you think of so-and-so because the chain and he would say don't take so-and-so's narrations so-and-so his narrations aren't good and he would he was doing جرحب التعديل praising and criticizes the narrators so I asked the people I think who's this man and he was famous so I said would you say about أحمد ابن محمد ابن حنبل would you say about who أحمد ابن حنبل what's your view regarding أحمد ابن حنبل the reason why he asked is because he wants يحمد ابن محمد to criticize أحمد ابن حنبل and if he does criticize it at least in his heart he feels that my journey was not a waste yeah at least I came you know he wasn't the right person to come to يحيب المعينين said مثلي يسألوا عن أحمد somebody like me is asked about أحمد أحمد يسألوا عني ask أحمد about me then my sadness increased even more I'm now the man so he said I went to أحمد's house I said I cannot stay in Baghdad for too long the money I have brothers you have to realize brothers the money he has is not too much he can't this is all calculated for them so he said I went to أحمد محمد أحمد أحمد I'm a stranger I'm a foreigner I'm not from your town I'm not from here أحمد said where are you from he said I'm from Andulus أحمد said that's a very far place brothers again no airplane in that desert he walked أحمد said I'm imprisoned the leader doesn't allow me to narrate so I can't narrate to you he said listen every day I will come to you as a beggar I'll dress up like a beggar and I will knock on your door just tell me one or two hadith and I'll leave you أحمد looked at him for a while and he said okay he came to أحمد and he took hadith bit by bit 34 hadiths 34 hadiths 345 hadiths like that until guess what he had the biggest mousnad in Islam his mousnad is the biggest mousnad that was written in Islam are you with me brothers even bigger than mousnad أحمد himself but he got lost the mousnad of Imam Ahmad mousnad بقية من مخلد he got lost it's from the books that when the Tatar came to the Muslim world they took it and threw it into the ocean pay attention here brothers بقية من بقية I just want to show you as the poet said أبوطيب المتنبي said إذا كانت النفوس كبارة when the person brothers has high aspirations the body cannot keep up with your aspirations so the body suffers بقية من مخلد he reached a point where Imam Ahmad when he got taken out of prison from his house and he was allowed to narrate أحمد used to have a gathering and he would narrate and he would look for بقية بقية and Ahmad would say sit next to me and he would tell the people this is بقية من مخلد and Imam Ahmad would praise him بقية went to Andulus to his place and at that time Andulus did not have a hadith the knowledge of hadith was not strong he was the one who brought the hadith of the prophet to Andulus the point of the story is brothers is what رِحَلَةُ فِي فِي فَالَبِرَنَ how these scholars they what they traveled and they went not weeks or months but what some of them years some of them when they traveled and they came to the funeral of the person that we were trying to take the narration from funeral and some of them because of the heat the sun and the hot temperature some of them their urine turned into blood they started urinating they started to urinate blood because of the heat but that didn't still stop them some of them they heard a scholar is alive and he's got a hadith and they want to go and they want to take the hadith from him and you know what they will do they don't have the money for it they don't have the ticket and the means to get there so what do they do they take their children's pots and pans and the kids food and they take it to the market and whatever money becomes he takes that money and he goes yeah they will sell their kids food and their kids pans and the pots in the house just so they can get a journey to the destination and back to narrate that hadith I'll tell you one final story then we'll start the next part of the class مؤمل بن إسماعيل one day he was sitting and then a man told him about every surah in the Quran the virtue in it سورة البغرة فضله كده وكده فضله كده وكده سورة النسة فضله كده وكده every surah virtue virtue and then he said and each of those hadith is attributed to so مؤمل بن إسماعيل he liked this come on every surah it makes you want to learn that surah and memorize it it's virtue and he said who told you this and then he said حدسني رجل بالمدائن حدسني رجل بالمدائن ايمان المدائن told me this so مؤمل took his riding beast he went to the madain he said to the man in madain I've come to you and I want to know من حدسك بهذا الحديث who told you this hadith and then he said رجل شيخ بواسط ايمان مواسط okay took his riding beast and he went to wasit when he went to wasit he met the man and he said من حدسك who told you this hadith and then he said شيخ من البصرة brothers you know where this is around the corner it's not go straight and turn left and then you go wrong no this is a continence and he took his riding beast again and he went to بصرة and then when he went to بصرة I went to the man in بصرة and I said to him who told you this and then he said to him شيخ بيعدان شيخ بيعدان sorry okay he took his riding beast he went there when he went there he said to the sheikh who told you فأخذ بيدي the man took me by the hand and he brought him into the gathering of a large group of من المتصورفة soofies and sitting ومعهم شيخ any sheikh was sitting with them and then he sat him هاد الشيخ حدسني that man was the one who told me this وأما لجمعه he went and then he sat me شيخ من حدسك who told you this حديث and then he said لم يحديثني أحد nobody told me this ولكننا رأينا بوي صوخ that the people turning away from the Quran قد رغبوا عن القرآن the people showing passion to other than the Quran فوضعنا لهم we placed these حديث for them فوضعنا لهم هذا الحديث ليصرفوا قلوبهم إلى القرآن so we can bring their hearts back to the Quran مؤمن المسماعيل his journey مؤمن المسماعيل مؤمن المسماعيل it took him two years to go around and all he fell into is what a man who said we made up the Hadith this is just one example there's another story of شعبة ابن حجاد أبو بصطام العتك same story something similar that happened to him are you with me brothers let me tell you one other story I think this story is very good it's worth mentioning وَأَذِهِ إِخْوانِهِ it shows you what these scholars have done for us والله إذا مرضنا تداوينا بذكركم فنترك with ذكر أحيان فننتكسوا when our hearts become sick with the remembrance of these people our hearts become white life and sometimes we leave off reading their biography we turn on our heels this story is a man by the name of محمد عبدالباقر محمد عبدالباقر he traveled from his land to go and collect Hadiths are you with me brothers but they said before that before that so he went to seek Hadith so one day محمد عبدالباقر he came to a city he came to what a city when he came to the city in which he wanted to take Hadith from he came for a particular chef but then he found some pearls an amount of what there were roubles and pearls and gems that were in there so what he did is what he found it as soon as he got it somebody was outside saying to the people I lost my property and they were describing it so he went and he said he said describe it for me he described it what is in there he said it's yours the man said I promised whoever gives it to me that I will give them this amount he said I don't want your money are you with me brothers I don't want your money and he went he went for his journey for Hadith so he took a he went to the sea to mount his the boat that he wanted to take to travel for Hadith when he took his boat there was too much tide and the boat broke he held on to a part of the boat and it brought him to the shore the rest of the people that were on the boat with him part they died from it are you with me brothers this is his رحلة he came to a land the people of the land they saw him lying down on the shore so they took him they clothed him they gave him food and they asked him his story and he said my story is I was heading to that particular land to compile the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ and they said are you seeking knowledge he said yes they said they saw his notes they said you know how to write it was yeah they said you know how to write it was yeah they said can you teach our children how to read and write then they heard him read Quran this is Allahu Akbar you can lead you know how to read lead us in the Salah so he became the sheikh of the mantaka then they said to him listen he said now I have to leave as my journey was to go and seek knowledge of Hadith I appreciate what you've done for me but I have to keep moving they said with one condition and that's what they used to do the people the righteous people this is what they used to do whenever a righteous person would come they would they would make him marry so he would come to that land again but he was not from Yemen but they married him off to a woman and they kept him in Yemen like that what did they do to keep him in Yemen that's what they did to him so what they did to him was they told him you have to marry and there you can go because they knew he was going to come back he said that's not my intention they said we're not going to let you go unless you get married he said okay they brought him a young girl the first night when the young girl entered onto him he saw on her neck something he looked at it he gazed and he woke up in the morning and the people of the city were knocking on his door came and he said what is the problem they said the young girl complained about you what is the reason they said that all you did last night was look at her neck he said no he said I saw on her neck necklace and on the necklace was some pearls that I remember from somewhere I gathered these pearls for a man once upon a time who lost it and I saw on her neck the people of the city started screaming shouting he said what is the reason they said the young girl her father was the one who lost the necklace and he used to make dua that Allah marries his daughter off to the man who found the pearls for him he now passed away so what happened pay attention the story hasn't finished she died and he had children for her so the pearls went towards the children the children inherited it from their mother and then the children passed away and he inherited the what he inherited the necklace he came to him became his own possession became his at the beginning Allah brought it back to him that's just one story from the stories of the scholars who traveled ولي ذادي كالإمام خطيب البغدادي ولي روطة بكود الرحلة في طالب الحديث the stories of the scholars who traveled to seek hadith and there are many many more there's a great story of صدق حسن خان do you know صدق حسن خان القنوجيا do you know صدق حسن خان from India he has a good story about his journey of when he traveled to from India to Hajj and his journey and what he went through these are things that you should read you will find so much benefit and a lot of high aspiration إن شاء الله تعالى we will carry on the next part بإذن الله الكلام