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
The Sunnah has been described as being Hikmah
(i.e. wisdom), resulting in whatever opposes the Sunnah not being Hikmah.
“…teaching them the
Book (this Qur'an and Islamic laws) and Al-Hikmah (As-Sunnah:
legal ways, orders, acts of worship). And verily, they had been before in mainfest
error…” [Jumu’ah
62:2]
The Hikmah here in this Ayaah refers to the Sunnah
of The Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him] (i.e. before it came
to us we were in manifest error).
Therefore, the way of the Salaf is to accept it
unrestrictedly, submitting to it, not having any doubt in it and if they had
any problems in understanding it, then they sought to learn the Sunnah so that
any doubts will be removed and end up submitting to it. They would leave their
own opinions and Ijtihaad once the Sunnah had been explained to them.
For example, ‘Umar al-Khattab [May Allaah be
Pleased with him] was of the view that the blood money for each finger was
different. So if one had his finger damaged by another, the person who damaged
his finger must pay blood money. The view of ‘Umar [May Allaah be Pleased with
him] was that the thumb was different to the other fingers, based on the reason
that we use it more. So he dictated that it was more important than the small
finger and the ring finger, so the Diyah (blood money) for the thumb was more
than the other fingers. From his Ijtihaad, he ruled that the thumb was worth 30
camels, the middle finger was 10 camels, the index finger was 10, the ring
finger was 8 and the small finger was worth 7 camels.
However, when the Hadeeth came to him that every
finger was worth 10 camels, he left his Ijtihaad and judged people based on
this hadeeth.
This incident also shows that the Companions
[May Allaah be Pleased with them all] would honour and venerate the Sunnah,
they would follow it unrestrictedly and they would ask each other for it,
seeking and finding the Sunnah from each other.
Another incident saw a grandfather come to Aboo Bakr
as-Siddeeq [May Allaah be Pleased with him], asking him about the inheritance
from his deceased grandson. So Aboo Bakr judged that the grandfather doesn’t
get anything because there is no text to prove that he gets a share. However,
when he asked the other Companions about this issue and Muhammad bin Maslamah proved
that he heard that the grandfather actually does inherit (in the absence of the
father). As a result, Aboo Bakr
submitted and ruled that the questioner would get a sixth.
Also, Ibn ‘Umar [May Allaah be Pleased with him]
didn’t allow stoning and pelting at Hajj on the behalf of children. In fact, he
would prevent his children from going to do the pelting during the Hajj but
when he found out that some of his children were doing it, he admonished then
and he said, “I inform you about a Hadeeth but you don’t listen to the Hadeeth!?
I won’t speak to you until you repent and come back to the Sunnah.”
So whatever has been narrated in the Sunnah, we
submit, believe, act upon, spread and honour it.
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