Nasīhatu Ahli Az-Zamān authored by Shaykh Mujaddid `Uthmān Dan Fodio rahimahullāh 21

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🕌 HALQAH SESSION

SHARH
“Nasīhatu Ahli Az-Zamān” (022)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله رب العالمين
والصلاة والسلام على من بعث رحمة للعالمين
وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين

Assalāmu alaykum Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh

You are welcome to this morning’s session of the Halqah.

Bārakallāhu fīkum.

We shall continue from where we stopped in our Book Nasīhatu Ahli Az-Zamān

By the Mujaddid Shaykh and Imām Uthmān Dan Fodio – rahimahullāh
We stopped at the Chapter.

تحذير الناس من الإنكار على الناس إنكار الحرام على الأمور التي اختلف العلماء في حكمها

And we stopped at where the Shaykh quoted Imām Izzuddīn Ibn ‘Abdissalām – rahimahullāh.

Then the Shaykh said;

وفي تلخيص الإخوان ولا بأس بإرشاد العاميِّ إلى ما هو الأحوط في دينه ولا بمناظرة المجتهدين ليرجع إلى الدليل الراجح (واختلاف العلماء رحمة)

“And it has come in Talkhīs Al-Ikhwān the following there is nothing wrong in guiding the Commoner to that which is safer and better of his Dīn, neither is there anything wrong in discussing and debating healthily within the Mujtahidīn so that the more weighty evidence may be returned to. And the differences of the ‘Ulamā is Mercy (for the ‘Ummah)”

Then he said;

وعلى هذا فلا يجوز الإنكار إلا لمن علم أن الفعل الذي ينهى عنه مجمع على تحريمه وأن الفعل الذي يأمر به مجمع على إيجابه. ونعنى بالنهي عن الإنكار إنكار الحرام. ولو أنكره إنكار الإرشاد أو أمره النصح والإرشاد فذالك نصح وإحسان

“And based on this, it is not permissible to rebuke a thing except for one that knows that the deed which he rebukes is agreed upon to be Harām, and/or the deed which he commands is agreed upon to be obligatory. And what we mean here is attempting to forbid a deed as though it were Harām. But if he were rebuking it by way of guiding its doer to that which is best or exhorts him by way of Nus’h and guidance, then that is acceptable as an Exhortation (Nus’h) and Good-doing”

Then he said;

قال ابن الهندي رحمه الله
لا تتعرض لكل من حكم في مسألة من مسائل الفروع إلا إذا علمت أن حكمه مخالف للقرآن والسنة. وإن لم تعلم ذلك فلا تتعرض لحكمه وإن علمت أن حكمه مخالف للمدونة وغيرها

“Ibn Al-Hindī – rahimahullāh – said

Do not turn to anyone that passes a ruling on a matter among the matters of Fiqh unless you know that its Hukm (ruling) is in variance with the Qur’ān and the Sunnah. If you don’t know that, then do not contradict that verdict even if you see it different with the rulings in the Mudawwanah and other than it.”

Here, Shaykh ‘Uthmān quotes the person of Ibn Al-Hindī – rahimahullāh
He is Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdirrahīm Ibn Muhammad Al-Armawī Al-Hindī.
He was born in 644 AH, studied in Hind and in other lands before settling in the city if Dimashq in the year 685 AH
He excelled in the sciences of Usūl, Mantīq and Kalām.

As-Safadī in his biography on Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah – rahimahullāh – in ‘Al-Wāfī Bi Al-Wafayāt’ mentioned that among the teachers of Ibn Al-Qayyim in Ilm Al-Kalām was Ibn Al-Hindī who taught him the two books ‘Al-Arba’īn and Al-Muhassal.

He was known for his extreme views and position as the Ash’arī Imām of Dimashq and had confrontations with the Polymath Imām Ibn Taymiyyah – rahimahullāh
Ibn Al-Hindī passed away 715 AH and left behind him many books of Kalām and Usūl.

Here Shaykh Uthmān Dan Fodio quotes Ibn Hindī to further strenghten his position that it is not right to levy rebuke on a person that is known to be following a Scholarly position even if that position seems to be weak and known to not be the most correct to the one who seeks to rebuke him.

Ibn Al-Hindī rather asserts that as long as you aren’t sure yet that this matter is not among the matters that were differed upon, you shouldn’t hasten to rebuke
I say, and Allāh knows best, this position and assertion is not exactly as Shaykh Uthmān puts it, as we have mentioned earlier.

And we shall, Allāh willing, expound on that further and later.

The Shaykh said;

وقال الإشبسلي في شرح الأربعين النووية
وإنما يأمر وينهى من كان عالما بما يأمر به وما ينهى عنه. فإن كان من الأمور الظاهرة، مثل الصلاة والصوم والزنا وشرب الخمر ونحوها، فكل الناس علماء بها. وإن كان دقائق الأفعال والأقوال وما يتعلق بالإجتهاد، لن يكن للعوام فيه مدخل، ولا لهم إنكاره، وذلك للعلماء. والعلماء إنما ينكرون ما أجمع عليه. أما المختلف فيه، فلا إنكار فيه

“And Al-Ishbīlī said in the Commentary on An-Nawawī’s Arba’ūn

Rather, Commanding and Forbidding of deeds are done by the one that known that about which he is Commanding and Forbidding. If it is a matter among the matters that are plain and known such as Salāt, Sawm (Fast), Zinā, Intoxication and their likes, these are known to everyone. But if the matters are the nitty matters deeds or words and matters that have to do with Ijtihād, then the Commoners have no business with that neither should they rebuke such matters. That should be left to the Ulamā. And the Ulamā only rebuke matters that are agreed upon. As for natters that are differed upon, there is no rebuking of those.”

Here, Shaykh Uthmān Dan Fodio quotes Al-Ishbīlī – rahimahullāh – to strengthen same position.

He is the erudite Imām Shihābuddīn Ahmad Ibn Far’h Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Far’h Al-Lakhmī Al-Ishbīlī – rahimahullāh.

He was born in Ishbiliya (Seville) 625H where he grew and began his studies.
He was imprisoned by the French in the year 646H until Allah destined his release.
He made Hijrah to Egypt 653H and then to Dimashq (Damascus) where he settled
He was known for his Zuhd, his piety and Ibādah.

About him, Ibn Tagharī said;

“He was a Hāfidh, very religious, Scrupulous, Pious and Careful. Positions of affluence were several times offered to him, and he turned away from them”

He studied from hundreds of Shuyūkh.
Among them is the Shaykh and Master of the Scholars of his time ‘Izuddīn Ibn ‘Abdissalām and the Muhaddith Imām Firās Al-‘Asqalānī – Rahimahumullāh
Among his many students are Imām An-Nābulusī, Al-Barzālī, and Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Adh-Dhahabī – Rahimahumullāh
About his excellence in the sciences of the Dīn, Ulamā have spoken much.

Adh-Dhahabī said in the__ Siyar__

“An excellent Shaykh he was. He was an Icon, possessed of tranquility and calm, piety, religiosity, sharp memory, trustworthy, truthful, chaste and focussed. So many studied from him and he authored a lot in the Sciences of Fiqh and Hadīth”

Rahimahullāh
The Shāfi’ī Imām passed away at 75 years of age in Dimashq in the year 699 after the Hijrah of the Rasūl – salallāhu alayhi wasallam.

We had paused to say a word about the person of the Imām Al-Ishbīlī – rahimahullāh – and we are not capable of doing justice to his biography in this scope.

The Ummah today lacks ‘Ulamā that can wear their shoes and lacks likewise Muslim Youths who are trying to renew the feat and Biographies of such great Ulamā.

Will we have youths today who will dedicate themselves to that?

We shall stop here for the week
Bārakallāhu fīkum

Jazākumullāhu Khayran

سبخانك اللهم وبحمدك أشهد ان لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إليك

Assalāmu alaykum Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh

12th Rabīu’ Al- Âkhir 1439H
(31/12/2017)

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