Who Can Teach Islam? The Prophet's Three Essential Rules

Alhamdulillah. Fore!

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So here we have a narration which was collected by Bkari on the authority of Abdullahbn. and both of them were companions. He and his father Abdullahb and his father A and his uncle Hishe was also a companion. The prophet sallall.aii wasallam as a matter of fact said He says that and his brother, the two sons of Al are believers. Now, here's what's interesting. Their father was one of the most terrible human beings to ever walk the streets of Mecca. And that's where he got his name from. foreign.

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And so their father was a very terrible man. He was one of the most one of the most aggressive antagonists of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam and this is where he got his nickname from his namesake. He's referred to as al meaning the the defiant because he was so defiant and disobedient to Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But his sons Almar and his brother were believers. And Almar had a son named Abdullah. And Abdullah is one of the great scholars of the companions. And he was young. He was a young man during the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam's lifetime. And he later migrated to Hashem after the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam's death and he passed away there and as a matter of fact the medhub of in the earlier years of fk and the science of in those areas in Amg and so forth. They were largely based around the teachings of Abdullahbni. Abdullah here narrates to us a narration that has three sentences. The narration tells us three things. The prophet sallall.aii wasallam gives us three points here. The first point he gives is.

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To be the camel inch.

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Many people are under the misconception that calling to Islam or even teaching Islam is the sole domain of the scholars only. You have to be a scholar to teach anything. And this is incorrect. And the efforts of the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam was always to close that chasm between the general masses of the Muslim and the scholarship of Islam where we don't want to have a cast system where these are the scholars up here then the rest of the people down here the people up here they are the sole proprietors of knowledge and then the people down here they don't know anything all they know is what they are told. This is not the model that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam taught. This is the situation that banel found themselves in where the laymen were very late. They knew nothing. They knew nothing of their own book. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, "And so the le people of Ben is they knew nothing. And all they had was a collection of sayings that they had learned. And so this is not the situation of Islam. Islam teaches that the prophet sallall.aii says, "Muslim, seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim. Everyone, male and female, old and young, free and slave, all are obligated to seek knowledge of Islam." A person must have at least enough knowledge to be able to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala properly at least. And so the prophet sallall.aii wasallam says here in this narration convey of my teachings even if only a single verse. He says and relate relay the stories that you are that you hear from beni is meaning the people of the book there's no blaming that but the things that we take from from the Jews and the Christians If they tell us Isa said this, Isa Miam he said this or he did this or Musam said this or did this or any of the prophets of Allah. The scholars have categorized these into three categories. Number one, that which we know to be true. We're sure it's true because the Quran tells us it's true or the prophet sallall.aii Wasam we have an authentic narration that confirms that in that case we don't need it from them we have it better the second is that which we know to be false because the Quran and Sunnah have said the opposite. We know it to be a lie. We know it to be a fabrication. We know it to be hypocryphal. This is haram to narrate, haram to relate unless it is to teach and dispel. Then we have a third gray area which is the most of what we will hear. That which we don't have any confirmation for in the Quran and Sunnah. nor do we have any negation from the Quran and Sunnah. It's possible that Isaam said this. It's possible that he did this. It's not something that the Quran confirms nor denies and it is possible in itself. This is what he's speaking about in this narration. This third type is permissible to mention. Is it permissible to use as evidence we use the Quran and Sunnah as evidence? No, of course not. Because it is dubious at best. It's it's not for sure. It's not certain. It's possible. That's it. And so to relate it as an anecdote, sure, no problem. But to use as an evidence to worship Allah to make it the basis upon which you transact something with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala absolutely not. And the third part of the narration is then.

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And whoever says that I said what I had not, whoever ascribes to me what I have not said knowingly, then he is to assume his position in the hellfire. meaning that this is a major sin in Islam to claim that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam said or did or confirmed that which he did not knowingly. And so this narration, this last part of the those three sentences, this last sentence, this is one of the most narrated statements of the prophet sallall.aii.

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And really this part of the narration is most relevant to us. How is that? The scholars tell us that the practice of this narration is that it is haram. It is positively prohibited to narrate a narration of the prophet sallall.aii that you do not have confirmation from the scholars of Islam as being authentic. You hear a narration, you get a WhatsApp narration, right? WhatsApp narrations, man, you will hear all kinds of things. I could tell you some narrations I have received on WhatsApp. , make your hair stand up on edge. for instance, That's a WhatsApp narration. The hour will not commence until two men walk around on the moon. Allahbar. Some, you know, Sephi made this up in his mother's basement, sent it out to the world, and then now it's Yes. Go find this narration. The hour will not commence until two men walk around on the moon. And so on. narrations of Alibab fighting the jin underground and up in the clouds or that he came and ripped off this is another WhatsApp narration ripped off the gates of with two fingers and then threw it behind his back. You know was a is a stronghold right? It's a fortress. So imagine the gates of Ali walked open, ripped the gate out with two fingers this. This is how it's written. And a person reads it and says, "Mashallah, it's time for me to do my good deed of the day forward." This is potentially a major sin in Islam. It is not permissible to carry on a narration without knowing for certain that at least one one authority figure of the scholarship of Islam has graded that narration authentic. Even if it sounds good, even if it says a good thing, even if it has a good lesson, because we have a principle in the science of hadith. That principle is as follows. That principle is as follows. Not every good statement is worthy or fit to be the words of the prophet Muhammad sallall.aii wasallam. There is an extremely strict and stringent set of criteria for a narration to be put up against in order for it to be able to be considered the words of our prophet sallall.aii Subhanahu Saychech.

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Alhamdulillah.