Answer: He has been described as
Imaam al-‘Adham. As for his view on the issue of Eemaan then his views are
incorrect and rejected, and the statements of the scholars are well known. Yet
he still remains to be classed as an Imaam and a Mujtahid. If he is correct he
has two rewards and if he makes a mistake he has one reward. As for him being
weak then there is no doubt that his memorisation is one thing and that the
ruling of his ability to derive rulings is another thing. Therefore he has been
classed as having bad memorisation yet he remains to be as those who have insight,
he is an Imaam who can extract and derive rulings. If one says: he is not to be
considered if this is his condition then he remains to be an Imaam. He is an
Imaam in the areas of the religion.
Throughout the Muslim lands the
Muslims recite from the narration of ‘Asim despite there being some
reservations of his memorisation. To the extent that if some of the Rawafid discredit him and they
say that how can one whos memorisation has been classed as being poor be depending
on in his reciaition, moreover he is even classed as weak in hadeeth? We say:
He is an Imaam in reciatation and this science of Quraan was made easy for him.
Therefore if one wants to learn Quraan then he will go to the people who are
renowned for knowing their Quraan and being experts in it, firmly grounded and
precise, despite them being not so firm in other fields or scinces.
Aboo Haneefah was an Imaam in Fiqh,
his ability to derive, he was strong in his ability to derive. He was strong in
his level of knowledge despite his memorisation being questionable. This is
similar to what we just talked about. If a person someone opens this chapter
then we close this chapter upon him, he is an Imaam in what he was able to do
and in what he accomplished. As for anything else, then he is just a normal
person. Similarly, ‘Aasim was an Imaam in recitation and nobody doubts this, he
was an Imaam, accurate and precise. This is the reality. He was an example in
this field. Meaning, if someone has poor memorisation and then he find, like we
do with some of the Imaams of the masjids, they are able to recite the whole of
the Quraan in the same manner as they recite the Faatihah, no mistakes
whatsoever, we find this, however if you ask him to narrate Umadat al-Ahkaam
from his memory, you may find mistakes from the very beginning. Even if he
studied it for years! This is because this isn’t his speciality, his speciality
is in Quraan. And some are the opposite of this. Meaning, a person may
memorised all of the sciences in the world, yet you will find mistakes in some
of these sciences.
So it is upon the person to account
himself, be content with what Allaah has made easy for him, so if something is
made easy for him, he should try to become an expert in it, or an Imaam. For
example, let’s take medicine as an example, some may memorise the books of
medicine in the various languages they are written in, he is precise in his
studies, he is accurate however if you ask him to memorise Nawawee’s forty
hadeeth, he’s not able, why? Because it hasn’t been made easy for him, it’s not
his speciality. So if you give this importance then you will gain a result, you
will be successful, however, if you give importance to what isn’t important for
you, then you won’t be successful, so you need to review yourself.
Sharh Al-Fiyyah al-‘Iraaqee Fee Uloom
al-Hadeeth by Shaykh Abdul-Kareem bin Abdullah al-Khudayr [May Allaah Preserve
him], Tape 20 120-125 minutes
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