السلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته.
الحمدلله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم الدين اما بعد:
قال الله سبحانه وتعالى:• يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ• (٤٩:٦ القران)
Allah says in The Quran (49:6): O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.
1. Allah instructs the Muslims to verify every information that they get before spreading it to others. (Al-Quran 49:6)
2. With regards to sharing false news false Ahadith of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), the Messenger of Allah said: “Do not lie upon me; indeed whoever lies upon me will enter the Fire“. (Sahih Muslim 1, also in Sahih Al-Bukhari)
3. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) clarified in many Ahadith that he hated the one who lies. ‘A’ishah (رضي الله عنها) said: No characteristic was more hateful to the Messenger of Allah than lying. (Part of a Hadith from At-Tirmidhi 1973, Sahih(Al-Albani)).
4. A Muslim should beware of lying even in a single statement.
Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (رضي الله عنه) said:‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’. (Sahih Muslim 9)
An- Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said concerning this and similar hadiths:
This is a warning not to speak of everything that one hears, for usually a person hears things that are true and things that are false, so if he were to speak of everything that he hears, he would be telling lies, because he would be telling of something that did not happen.
End quote from Sharh Saheeh Muslim (1/75
5. People who narrate everything that they hear are in fact liars according to the verdict of the Messenger of Allah. Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) said:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “It is enough for a man to prove himself a liar when he goes on narrating whatever he hears.” (Sahih Muslim)
6. Muslim speakers or scholars who lie with regards to the Messenger of Allah or his companions are not worthy of being Imams of the Deen according to the words of Imam Malik.
Imam Mālik said: ‘Know that a man who relates everything he hears is not safe, and he can never be an Imām, as long as he narrates everything he hears’. (Sahih Muslim 10)
7. People started fabricating and making false narrations attributing them to Ali Ibn Abi Talib after his death and this was common knowledge among the scholars of Hadith that many narrations were falsely attributed to Ali (رضي الله عنه).
Hasan bin Alī al-Hulwānī narrated to us, Yahyā bin Ādam narrated to us, Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, on authority of al-A’mash, on authority of Abī Ishāq who said:
‘When they narrated these things after Alī, a man from the companions of Alī said: ‘May Allah curse them. Did they corrupt every [type of] knowledge!?’ (Sahih Muslim 24)
8. It is also not permissible to sit with storytellers and give them ears in order to listen to their admonitions if they are using false and unauthentic narrations.
Abū Kāmil al-Jahdarī narrated to us, Hammād- and he is Ibn Zayd- narrated to us, he said Āsim [bin Bahdalah] narrated to us, he said:
‘We would catch up with Abū Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulamī and at the time we were young men, so he would say to us: ‘Do not sit with story-tellers other than Abūl-Ahwas and beware of Shaqīq [Abū Abd ar-Rahīm]’. Imam Muslim said: ‘This Shaqīq held the view of the Khawārij and is not Abū Wā’il [Shaqīq bin Salamah, the righteous Tabi’ī]’.
9. Even if a Muslim is known to be righteous but it is known from him that he lies while narrating statements from the Prophet or the companions of the prophet then it is not permissible to listen to his Ahadith or narrations.
Hajjāj bin ash-Shā’ir narrated to me, Sulaymān bin Harb narrated to us, Hammād bin Zayd narrated to us, he said, Ayyūb said:‘Indeed I have a neighbor’ and he mentioned some of his virtues, [and continued] ‘…even if he testified to me about two dates I would not see his testimony(in narrations) as permissible’. (Sahih Muslim 61)
10. The above were a few simple proofs about not narrating and quoting from unknown sources. After this if anyone quotes from unknown sources, then we ask Allah to guide him and us to what is right. All we can do is only convey- Ultimate Guidance is with Allah The Most High.
واقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله لي ولكم. واخر دعوانا ان الحمد لله رب العالمين.
7th/Nov/2020
-ابو معاذ محمد بن جمل حسين منا.
Saheehus-Seerah 