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Tag: narrate
Emulating ash-Shaafi’ee during Ramadhaan
I took myself to [emulating] what ar-Rabee’ had narrated about ash-Shaafi’ee, that he would complete [reading] the Qur.aan sixty times during Ramadhaan, [and this was] other than what he would recite…
Declaring a Muslim a disbeliever
A man came to Abu ‘Abdillaah al-Bukhaaree and said: ‘O Abaa ‘Abdillaah, such-and-such has said that you are a disbeliever!!’ He replied: The Prophet ﷺ said
Encouraging others
When a man narrates to me a hadeeth, I remain silent [to encourage] him – [giving the impression] as if I haven’t heard it [before], even though I [first] heard it before he was even born!
After he had read it only once
Regarding Abul-Ma’aadee Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Abil-‘Ashaa.ir al-Halabee (died 789A.H.), it has been narrated that he memorised Soorah al-An’aam in his youth, after he had read it only once.
Narrating hadeeth and not adopting it
It was said to ash-Shaafi’ee رحمه الله: ‘Do you take this hadeeth O Abaa ‘Abdillaah?’ So he said
Out of respect for the knowledge of hadeeth
[al-Imaam] Maalik would not narrate hadeeth unless he was in a state of purity (wudhoo) – out of great respect for the [knowledge of] hadeeth.
I know more
For 20 years I have not heard from any man who narrates hadeeth except that I know more about it than him.
There is nothing I have except that I recall its isnaad
I have written [ahaadeeth] from more than 1,000 Shaykhs, and from each one I have [taken] 10,000 ahaadeeth; There is nothing I have except that I recall its isnaad.
I know more about it than him
For 20 years, I have not heard a man narrate hadeeth except that I know more about it than him; [however] I had forgotten some knowledge [the extent of which] if a man was to memorise that [which I…