alhamdulillah Alum peace be unto you
welcome to another episode of the dean
show the all new show on Islam and
Muslims and today we're going to be
covering Hadith so this is a very good
topic for those of you who have just
entered Islam or you're a Muslim and
you're confused about Hadith you don't
even know what the meaning of Hadi is so
today we're going to be giving you the
gist of it with a very special person
good friend of mine I'm going to
surprise you we'll be right back on the
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show I wanted to give him a surprise
because we got Sheik muham mamed sley
how are you siram Alum
alayum peace be unto you and to you
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already butul let's just refresh them
with you telling us a little bit
introduce yourself for the audience
probably who don't possibly know who you
are uh my name is Muhammad
say if it's too long for you you can say
MSA this is the
shortcut um the director of the Islamic
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to have next time this enough for you
this time okay now we're going to be
talking about today Hadith we want to
know let let's just start off with the
meaning of Hadith what do we mean when
we say
Hadith Hadith Hadith is something which
is statement
saying
speech those can be Hadith the Hadith is
the opposite of something which is Old
Something New you can say this also
Hadith this linguistic token but if we
talking about a religious meaning we
talking about the statements of the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam we call it
Hadith now the Hadith because we as ones
who submit our will to the will of the
Creator alone and no one else right
right Muslim this is I'm giving a
definition for those of our viewers who
just possibly might be joining us for
the first time as Muslims we go by the
verbatim word of God which is the Quran
and we say the Hadith so what do we mean
when we say and the
Hadith the Hadith is the statements of
the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
who was the messenger of Almighty Allah
and the last of all the prophets and The
Messengers of Allah Muhammad son of
Abdullah who born in meca gotcha
okay so when we say that we go by the
Hadith H these Hadith that we
have how do
we distinguish the Hadith that we have
if they're authentic how do we know that
we know the Quran is the verbatim word
of God but how do we know that the
Hadith we have are authentic how do they
come to being as we have them today
okay uh first of all that you have to
understand
like uh train track who try to make
things simple for especially for new
Muslims to understand what it is the
train have two tracks to go on them all
right gotta we as a Muslims we are being
guided or the guidance that been given
to us it been given to us in two form
one which call the Quran which is the
words of almighty God and one is the
Hadith which is the statement or the
saying of the Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him both of them complement one
another complete one another explain one
another the different between Quran
which is the words of Almighty Allah and
the words of the Hadith which is the
statements of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam the Quran is is Miracle
by
itself in the way how been combined the
way how been bought together everything
the Hadith is a normal words of a human
being but still inspired by Almighty
Allah but the statements itself is not
the statement of Allah it's the
statement of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in the words of a human
being so when you challenge somebody you
challenge him with the Quran as a
miracle in the words the grammal way the
the grammar the spelling the the beauty
all these things as for the Hadith you
do not challenge somebody to say make
Hadith like this is a word of a human
being so the meaning of the
Hadith the general meaning of the Hadith
is from Almighty Allah but the words is
the words of a human being which is the
prophet of
Allah so although those the words of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but
he didn't make it
up he's given the
followers what Allah wants them to do
giving them instruction but in his own
words the Quran is the words and the
meaning is from Allah the Hadith is the
meaning from Allah the words from the
prophet sallallahu alhi wasallam tell us
Shake how do we know that when we have a
Hadith mm that the prophet P upon him
actually said that how is that checked
how is this it checked this is not
something symol as you may think that
we're sitting here there is some people
who specialize in this not me not you
same thing that you find a ring shining
so right away maybe you think it's gold
but if you take it to the gold shop he's
not going to even give you $5 for it so
it's not everything shining is gold so
the same thing is not any statement any
words B put together I can tell you this
is Hadith so there is a Scholars who are
specialized in this field to tell you if
this is Hadith is authentic or not what
or not what there is rules and
regulations and study same like a person
you understand that became a general
doctor and you have a doctor specialized
only in heart okay or in a brain or eyes
so you have some people who specialize
in study of the knowledge of Hadith does
contradict the Quran as
example does
uh conflict with any of the teaching of
Islam so there is something that you
study in the M of the Hadith and
something that you study in the chain of
the narrators of the Hadith
and the people have to study both you
study the
reputation of every
narator you have books famous book like
the book of Imam Al bukari Imam Malik
Ahmed M Malik you see there is many many
books of Hadith so this is the books how
treat should this Imam from this IM to
the prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi
wasallam you may have about 40 different
people from so and so to so and so and
so and so her so and so and so and so
told so and so so now those Scholars
they examine the history of every person
who calling a chain of isnad so from the
time that been collected in been bought
in a book up to the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam or at least
up to the sahab the companions of the
the prophet who is this person what's
his name were he born did him and the
person who narate from him did ever they
meet each other what is the reputation
of this person is honest or not so he
say adley met Eddie all right but when
you study the history of adley that when
Edie born adley was supposed to be 120
years old so there's no way he can live
adly until 120 years years old and if he
still alive that his brain could not
remember all these words so there is
something wrong here how Ed met adley
and heard from him so this itself will
classify this Hadith there is something
wrong Something Fishy here we could not
take this Hadith why because the age of
Eddie and adley is so big different or
maybe our age that there is a
possibility you can meet but adle lived
in Arabia Ed lived in America no
airplane in that times anything how did
they meet each other so there is many
things that you have to study about
every narrator in the chain you're
talking about it can be 40 it can be 50
people every person you have to know
where he born what's his name who's his
father Where Did He travel did he ever
meet with the other person in Nate so
you go through all this process so now
you verify the first man the second man
the third man until you reach it to sah
gotcha yeah it's a big process so it's
not anybody can say oh this Hadith is
not authentic or this Hadith is
authentic so there is a process that you
have to go through to verify the Hadith
so just to give an example so what
you're saying is correct me if I'm wrong
so you have the last and final message
of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him okay it starts with him then you
might have a narrating to B to see and
then it comes to the last person and
then the person like say bhari he will
go and verify all these people their
credibility and their life and all these
things and then from there the Hadith
would be accepted and be accepted
otherwise if there is any defect in one
of the
narrator or there is a defect in the
statement of
itself which consider the Hadith so this
would disqualifies this Hadith to be
authentic to be utilized so can it be I
I want to give you example example there
is a story narrated about
IM may Allah Mercy in his soul that and
those those scar used to travel from
country to Country only he used to
travel for a whole month to see the
other narrator and when he reached him
he said did you hear from so and so a
statement of the Prophet such and such
and such to verify so anyway IM alkari
had Trav for a month or two to meet one
of the N tus of the
Hadith so when he reach to the other
country he see this man holding a bucket
okay and they try to tempt the
horse okay to come to act as if he have
food for the horse when the horse
came the
guy throw the pocket away and hold the
horse and get in his back so he kind of
tricked the horse exactly so IM B turned
away after all this long journey I say I
could not trust a person who lied to his
animal if this person did such act like
this that mean he's not reliable he
deceived the horse I could not so he
even turned away he did not even go to
ask him about the Hadith they used to
study the history of the people as
example there is something can scratch
his reputation as a reliable person as
example if he shave his beard if he walk
in the street with no coffee if he eat
standing up small violations in Islam
like to me and to you today is not a big
deal so what this means that somebody
standing up and eating is only Mak as
example but to them was a big deal so
they study these people one by
one and they try to see their behavior
and their discipline not only how how
much he can memorize how much he can
remember they check them from A to Z to
accept this person and they go for the
second one the third one until they
reach to the sah so we really need to be
asking ourselves would we be qualified
to have a have a Hadith be accepted from
us probably not not at all oh oh no so
these were men that we be we'll be happy
if they say Salam alaykum to us yeah
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welcome back to the dean show we with
shik Muhammad we're talking about Hadith
we want to know what the Hadith are and
just giving you a gist about them tell
us for the Layman like myself and other
people or myself so for the lay men how
do we because we're not bohari we're not
Muslim these people that collected the
Hadith how do we know now what's
authentic what's not how do we know with
you know sometimes for the Layman can
get a little confusing what do you
recommend uh in
actuality the higher standard of IM
bukari and IM Muslim these two books
consider the best books and the most
authentic books that accepted by the
whole umah the entire Muslims everywhere
after the book of Almighty Allah subhah
wa ta'ala for a regular person like
myself and yourself we could not take a
book and say this Hadith authentic this
Hadith is weak so to be safe stick to
bukari and Muslim until you can found
one of the great Scholars who qualified
to tell you if this book or this Hadith
in ter is authentic or not authentic
this Hadith in M IM Malik is it
authentic or not but for me to open any
one of these
books I may have authentic Hadith or
weak Hadith so we we have two books
which in them I can say almost about 80%
of Islam if it's not
more if you hold these two books and
take all the that is
there you be you be like
uh like I I don't want to use the word
like a saint you be became so Rous
person because which one of us
understand that capable or able to
practice nowadays 80% % of his Dean so
let's be in the safe side and practice
80% of our Dean with something good and
solid reliable than having 90% or 100%
and most of it it doesn't hold any water
so St to bukari and Muslim for the time
being unless you have a person who
specialized in this field or that he
read the books of the scholars like IM
ALB and he will tell you Alani said this
Hadith was authentic this Hadith is weak
like this now it makes total sense if
you look at it is it correct to say that
every messenger of almighty God Allah
came with Hadith he was given the
Revelation for instance Moses was given
the Torah uh Jesus peace be upon him was
given the inil and their words were
Hadith and then
is that how I don't I don't really want
make a statement like this because Allah
say in
Quran don't talk about things which have
no knowledge it maybe doesn't come to my
mind now for to answer a question like
this but I don't want say that every
Prophet have this because there is a big
possibility that Prophet relate to his
community what Allah Almighty said but
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
had told us
indeed I've been given the book and a
similar book with
it about the other prophets I don't know
what I want to what I mean is that you
have the Revelation then you have the
representative that came with this this
is true but let me give to the viewer a
simple example to understand what is had
yeah you know nowadays you have the
Constitution of United State as example
or the B laws whatever this is the law
but there is other books comes to break
down
this and this is the reason when you go
you find the lawyers they have all these
books in their shelves which is like
mandom or addition or some kind of to
break down the Constitution to more
categories and subtitles yes so this
exactly what is the Hadith is doing you
see
so the Hadith is to explain the Quran
more and give more details so you have
two books and you have to go by both of
them you could not go by the Quran by
itself but did every Prophet
have the the Torah and also his
statement beside it did Jesus have the
angel as example and his
Prophet uh saying I I could not make a
statement like this for the time being
at least I have to think about it more
or check it more gotcha what about for
someone who says you know what the
Crown's enough for me I'm just going to
go by the Quran I don't need the Hadith
how do you respond to
this first of all you understand we
answer them by the Quran itself if you
really want to go by the Quran the Quran
say obey Allah and obey the prophet so
how you going to obey the prophet the
Quran is commanding you to obey the
prophet so where is the order of the
Prophet because when you say obey
Allah that mean you're not going to sit
and listen yeah Allah what you saying
obey Allah obey the book of Allah and
obey the prophet of Allah so where is
the prophet of Allah now so how you
going to app this verse this is one
thing give you another example the Quran
say establish the prayer and give the
zaka
but how many prayers and when we
supposed to make the prayer and how to
do the prayer there is no details in the
Quran there is no single verse in the
whole Quran to tell you that the prayer
are
five so how you going to make the Salah
so you have here command direct command
from Allah to establish the prayer how
you going to establish the prayer how
you going to do it how do you know you
understand that the comes before the
bound come before
prostration so there is there is no way
a Muslim can live by the Quran or even
understand the Quran in the absence of
the Hadith no
way so can a person well that basically
answered my next question my next
question was going to be can a person
just go by the Quran it's no way it's no
way that you can live only by the
Quran Allah subh you say there is many
verses in the Quran talks about The
Obedience of the Prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam whatever the prophet of Allah
gives you that take and whatever he
forbids you from it stay away so there
is other things different from what's in
the Quran been forbidden by the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam otherwise we can eat
dogs okay but we could not eat any wild
animals which has Fang
Fang yes you know this big too yeah yeah
because it came in the Hadith Allah
forbid in the Quran any dead thing to be
eaten but the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said with the exception of the
fish all right so there is many
things and
say is not be fitting to any Believers
male or female when Allah or his
messenger decide a matter that they have
the choice so there is the saying of
Allah and there is the saying of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
had indicate prophesize that it will
come time that some people will say
Quran is enough for us and he said
indeed what Allah
forbid is equal to what the prophet
forbid and what the prophet make Halal
lawful is equal to what Allah make it
lawful and Halal so the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam already had
prophesies it will be some people who
act in this kind of manner but there's
no way the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam is
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saying all my nation will enter Heaven
or Paradise Jenna with exception those
who refuse the companion said oh prophet
of Allah how a person will refus to
enter Jenna say whosoever obeys me he
will enter Jenna whosoever disobey me
that mean he's refusing to enter
Jenna so this is a big
deviation for somebody to think that he
can go only by the Quran and like I said
ask somebody who say I can only go by
the Quran did Allah command you to pray
he will say yes ask him show me one
single verse in the whole Quran tells
you how many Salah you're supposed to
pray every day they have no answer
somebody maybe tell you three somebody
tell you two somebody tells you as much
as they want you see the confusion a lot
of confusion so we cannot separate it's
clear that you have the verbatim word of
God the Quran and you have the Hadith
you cannot separate it the two at all
you could not and this is actually a
mercy from the Creator that you have a
represent his representative showing us
how to implement this Quran yes exactly
and we should be
grateful and we should follow the way of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and like I said you as a Muslim like a
train you got these two tracks you have
to go on them otherwise
you know what's going to happen well
thank you again for being with us and
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you
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