Question:
Asalamualaykum,
Jazakallah for answering my questions Shaykh Gibril. The thing that confuses me is that Shaykh Muhammad al Yaqoubi himself stated that scholars do quote fabricated hadiths (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqm_0eTjHFc) which led me to think that the other hadith was fabricated and others was saying that it was, may Allah forgive me. And could you explain why he said that scholars do quote these hadiths.
Is this hadith fabricated ‘Were belief (al-îmân) to be found at the Pleiades, a man from those people would go there to obtain it’, but with the word knowledge since you said that it was fabricated in a article and quoted it in a talk. Please don’t take this the wrong way but I am confused on this.
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Shaykh Yaqubi – in the 50-second video you yourself cite – never said anywhere that “scholars do quote fabricated hadiths” but only said that Wahhabis memorize 200 forged hadiths so that they can denounce any opponent whenever the latter quotes a forgery, and then people will think they are scholars. I never said anywhere that the hadith “Were belief (al-îmân) to be found at the Pleiades, a man from those people would go there to obtain it” was fabricated, whether in this wording or with the word “knowledge” instead of “belief”. What I said was that the hadith was authentic in both wordings, even if one 20th-century scholar incorrectly claimed that the latter wording was forged; which is the first hadith I quote and document in my 2007 book “The Four Imams and Their Schools”.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
