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'Narrated by the glorious scholars' (qasida 15:47) This is the motto of this section, which is for preserving and the knowledge about the valuable books of our great religious predecessors. You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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Great Ancestors' Books
Since we are constantly in need for the non-distorted books of our predecessors, and since some irresponsible groups had intentionally or unintentionally printed distorted books and spread them either in the markets or on the internet, there aroused an insisting need to find reliable sources for the books and knowledge of the virtuous predecessors. So, we are nominating to you some sister sites that choose accurately every book they present. This way you can easily find the books and texts of our predecessors which some people tried to hide and conceal, but Allah will complete His guidance, even if biased people dislike. We will mention some of the books, from these sites, that sheikh Fakhr Eldin quoted from in his books and lessons. More information about these sites are in the library page in our main site.
Musnad of Imam Ahmed
The book of "Musnad of Imam Ahmed" is one of the most famous and the widest books of Hadith, It has many of the Sahih Hadiths that are not in the two famous Sahihs (al-Bukhary and Muslim. It is by Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal, the Imam of the Hanbaly Doctrine. Imam Ahmed made this book to be a reference for the Muslims. He arranged it to be sorted according to the names of the Sahaba [companions] narrating the Hadiths, which is the method used for Musnads. It came to be a grand book that contained almost forty thousands Hadiths, ten thousands of which were repeated. 300 of his Hadiths were triads [which means only three narrators between him and the Prophet [PPBUH]]. Imam Ahmed made his book out of 750 thousands Hadiths, which he collected through his travel and search. The number of Sahaba in his Musnad are 904 companions. He started collecting his book ever since he was 16 years old, as he recorded the Hadiths with its narrations in some scattered papers. He kept on this way until he was close to dying. When he felt the closeness of his death, he started to arrange it and omit from it... He dictated these Hadiths to his sons and his family, and he told them what he had done. He might have entrusted to his son Abdullah to take over collecting these Hadiths and arranging it, after him. Abdullah collected these Hadiths using the Musnad way which is very hard. As it requires arranging according to the rank of its narrators of Sahaba, so he started with the Hadiths narrated by Abo-Bakr, then Omar, and so on. Ahmed's way of selection of Hadith depended on its subject, i.e. if it was about a rule of Shari'a of belief, then it had to be Sahih Hadith. But if it is about the supererogatory or the extra work, and it had what would support it from Qur'an or Sahih Sunna, then it is alright to be of weaker narration. But if the Hadith was contradicted by some other stronger context, so that they cannot exist together, the the weaker one would be omitted.
For
example we would find the name of Abdullah ibn Lahi'a in the Musnad,
although
Introduction by the Editors Translated by Heba
Note:
to
download & use these books, you need to down the compressed files
(rar
files) of the book and place it in the same
folder
and do not change their names. Then open any compressed file and you will
find the book which may comprise of one (pdf)
file or several ones which in turn will be decompressed to a one folder and
do not change any of their names. Now you open any of them using the
acrobat reader
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A Selection of brother’s readings:
The Knowledgeable Glorious Scholars
Thanks to Allah who has made the knowledgeable scholars successors to the prophets to inherit their manners and became role models for everyone. Many people got strayed and got away from the guidance of the Beloved [PPBUH] when they did not take the great old knowledgeable scholars of this nation as their source of knowledge, instead they became addicted to taking from the recent simple ones. This way they got away from what their righteous ancestors used to have and what was settled by the Islamic nation for decades and centuries. The Prophet [PPBUH] said: (People are still in blessing as long as they took their knowledge from their knowledgeable elders. When they start taking from their young unknowledgeable ones then they are doomed). The Prophet [PPBUH] also said: (This religion is knowledge, so be careful who to get from). He [PPBUH] also said: (When the knowledgeable scholars die, people will choose their leaders from unknowledgeable ones. When they ask them, they will answer without knowledge, so they will lead astray and mislead everyone, and there is no strength no power but from Allah). sayydi Fakhreddin Mohamed Osman [AAH] said: [If you were asked: What is the book? It is from what is narrated by the great scholars] (qasida 15:47) All scholars agreed that no one can disparage any word from the Prophet [PPBUH] or judge it as being fabricated or weakly narrated, unless he has an absolute proof from Qur'an or Sunna of the Prophet [PPBUH]. From the start of the first century and up until now, great scholars [AAT] have taken the mission of preserving Turath of our true religion [inherited knowledge from the Prophet, His companions, and our great scholars]. They have been preserving it the same way as the Prophet [PPBUH] wanted them to do. That is how the authentic Hadith, true interpretations, and Historical events from the start of Mohammad' Message till our current day, were preserved and predicated honestly and truthfully. One of the main glorious scholars, with a great resume, is:
Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal
Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal is the man of the first half of the third century, as no one in his era was as famous, trusted, or believed in as he was. He [AAH] was Imam in piety and asceticism, Imam in Fiqh, Imam in his famous doctrine "al-Hanbaly", as he is one of the four pillar Imams in Fiqh, Imam to all Hadith Imams in his era, and Imam in firmness and patience. He was born in 164H in Bagdad, and died on 241H. He was 40 years old when Imam ash-Shafi'y died, who was 14 years older. He is an Arabian of the Shiban tribe and meets with the Prophet [PPBUH] in his grandfather Nazar ibn Ma'ed. His father died while he was young, and his mother took care of his raising. The care of his mother for him was like the care of Imam ash-Shafi'y's mother for him. As his mother was a poor young beautiful woman, who had many men proposing to marry her, but she refused them all and dedicated herself for her son. On the other hand Imam ash-Shafi'y was good to his mother, as he never got married until she died in order not to bring another woman to fight with his mother over being the lady of the house. So he stayed unmarried until 30 years old (Arabs at that time used to get married very young).
[They said Ahmed visits you and you visit him I said that the virtues never leave his house] [If he visits me, it is because of his virtue and if I visit him, it is because of his virtue, so he has the virtue in both cases]
He learned true asceticism from Ibn al-Mubarak, he used to eat only one food, and if wished for a good food, he did not eat it unless he is with a guest, and he said: We heard that the food of the guest is not accounted for. Imam Ahmed learned from many scholars, and he learned Fiqh from Imam ash-Shafi'y. He did Hajj 5 times; three of them walking because he was short of money, but it did not stop him. He was known for his abstaining from getting any money from anyway other than his work even the simplest and lowest kind of work. Even gifts which he might accept, but he would give the gifter something like it or even better. He was a tribute to knowledge and scholars, and all scholars agreed that he was a good pious man. He was famous for Hadith even more than he is for Fiqh, although he is one the Fiqh Imams. Out of his great piety he did not use comparison unless it was very obvious and unless it was necessary, as he was the scholar of Hadith of his time. He had more Hadith than anyone else. As he wrote his Musnad out of 750 thousand Hadiths. He never wrote anything unless it was Qur'an or Hadith. His Fiqh was known as the Fiqh of the quoted. He did not gave an opinion in any Fiqh case unless he heard about it from one of the companions or the followers. If he finds two different opinions of the companions, he might not prefer one to the other, and he would have two opinions in this matter. So his Fiqh would not go out of the transmitted as he used to say: it is not possible to worship Allah with what we think or by comparison. As for treatment, his Fiqh is characterized for being easy and flexible and being good for all times. He also was so Allah fearing, that he prevented his students from writing his judgments and said to them: I might find something afterwards that I do not know now, where would I find you to tell you about it? Allah made his students write all his judgments after him, and they wrote more than 60 thousands cases. He did not start Fatwa (Shari'a judgment) until he was 40 yeas because: 1- he was following the Prophet [PPBUH], like Abdullah ibn Omar [AAH]. 2- He considered the Fiqh or Fatwa is the prophetic inheritance. 3- How could he do Fatwa while his Imam and sheikh ash-Shafi'y is still alive.
He used to keep away from philosophy that was starting to grow at his time. And he refused to be a judge when Imam ash-Shafi'y recommended him, and said to him: I come to you lessons to grow more ascetic by your knowledge, and you ask me to judge? He used to abide himself by the Hadith of the Prophet [PPBUH], and he was the one who narrated the Hadith of (every good deed is an alms, and one of the good deeds is when you meet your brother with a clear smiling face). So he applied that Hadith to himself, as he used to meet all people smiling and prefer them to himself. He also would never pray or read the Qur'an when someone enters, and he would go back to his prayers and Qur'an after they leave, out of fear of hypocrisy. Imam ash-Shafi'y sent him a man to tell him that he saw a dream about him, Imam Ahmed, and he gave the man a letter him that he would be tested in his belief and he would be invited to say that the Qur'an is a creature, but he would refuse and stand stiff for it, and that he would be having a flag for it to the day of judgment. Imam Ahmed was glad for this good tiding that he gave his shirt to one who told him, ar-Rabie'. When ar-Rabie' came back to Imam ash-Shafi'y and told him what happend, Imam ash-Shafi'y told him to keep the shirt of Imam Ahmed but wash it and give him its water for blessing. The main ordeal for Imam Ahmed started on the year 218H and lasted for almost 3 years, but its effect lasted to the end of his life. As he lived through the time of caliph Ma'moun, Mo'tasim, Wathik, then Motawakkil. They tried to make him support their wrong belief that the Qur'an is a creature, and not the eternal knowledge of Allah, but refused. Every other scholar either gave up to them or died, except him. Mo'tasim made an argument between his men [al-Mo'tazalah] and Imam Ahmed, but Imam Ahmed confuted them. However they did want to confess their defeat because they were afraid that the news might spread out, so they asked him to back up from his position and offered him money and gifts, but refused to do so and asked for an evidence from Qur'an. So Mo'tasim imprisoned him and torturing him. They continued to torture him and even took him to a special prison with hard guards to keep torturing him. This went on until people almost made a revolution. Then they had to let him out to his home to heal his wounds. Thais lasted for two and half years. He used to do 300 Rak'a of prayers every night before prison, and could not do more than 150 after prison. He used to say: "If you want Allah to keep treating you as you like, you have to be as He like".
Edited By Rawya Ramadan Translated by Heba
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As
all of his fellows, he learned Qur'an while he was young, read quite well,
and memorized it completely. When he was 15 years, he started seeking
knowledge. The first one to learn from was Imam Abo-Yusuf al-Qady, who was,
beside being one of the Hadith men, one of the Imams of thinking rather just
accepting what is being transferred. After a while with Imam Abo-Yusuf, Imam
Ahmed found that he prefers to seek Hadith more. So he turned to the
sittings of Hadith and he liked this approach and it agreed with he piety
and righteousness. So started traveling seeking Hadith until he went to
Sham, the shores, Morocco, Algiers, Maccah, Medina, Higaz, Yemen, Iraq,
Fares, Khurasan, the mountains, the far ends, and the coastal city, and that
was only in the first stage of his life. He met Imam ash-Shafi'y in his
first trip to Higaz at the al-Haram [Holy House]. He admired Imam ash-Shafi'y
so much that kept praying for him every night for 40 years. When he mentions
the Hadith of (Allah sends to this nation at the top of every hundred
years, someone to renew its religion), he used to say: "Allah, Almighty,
sent sayyduna Omar ibn Abdel-Aziz to renew the religion of this nation at
the top of the second hundred years. And I hope that it would be ash-Shafi'y
at the top of the third hundred years". Imam Ahmed could not meet Imam Malik
ibn Anas, so he used to say: I was deprived from meeting Malik, but Allah
compensated me by Sufian ibn Oyayna. See how these Imam glorified and
respected each other, while some groups nowadays only try to down grade the
scholars. And if someone tries to speak for his doctrine, he would wrong all
other Imams trying to promote for his Imam. Imam ash-Shafi'y used to visit
Imam Ahmed a lot, so when he was asked about that, he said:
