Points taken from the talk ‘How to Honour the
Sunnah’
Shaykh Sa’d bin Naasir ash-Shithree [May
Allaah Preserve him]
Jaami’ Ameerah Mawdee bint Ahmad
as-Sudayree
9/4/1434 - 20/2/2013
Narrations that are Ahaad (narrations narrated
in a chain of narrators which has fewer than four narrators at any stage of the
narration) are from the Sunnah and we are commanded to follow the Sunnah and
protect it. It is not possible for there to be a Hadeeth except we know it to
be either Saheeh or Da’eef, therefore, once it is proven to be authentic, we
accept it.
“O you who
believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with a news, verify it, lest
you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you
have done.” [al-Hujaraat
49:6]
So this Aayah shows that if person who is 'Aadil (trustworthy)
and Daabit (precise in what they narrate) comes with information, we accept it.
As Allah, the Most High, says:
“And it is not
(proper) for the believers to go out to fight (Jihad) all together. Of
every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left
behind) may get instructions in (Islamic) religion, and that they may warn
their people when they return to them, so that they may beware (of evil).” [at-Tawbah 9:122]
So what are these people warning against? In actuality, they
are warning against the evidences from the Quraan and the Sunnah and following them. So it is Waajib
for us to act upon ‘Ilm that has come to us even if it is a small group of
people narrating it.
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