n37 29 The Major Sins Series-Lying on the Prophet - Abu Usama 1017

The Major Sins Series - Lying on the Prophet

Speaker: Abu Usama

Introduction to the Ninth Major Sin

Muhammad Zahabi went on to the next chapter, a short chapter as well. Al-Kabiratu Tasi'a, Al-Kathibu Ala An-Nabi (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). The next chapter is the major crime and the sin of lying on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). The liars on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). The khutbah who lie on him and say, Rasulullah said this and he didn't say it. Those books, like the book, Tabligh An-Nisab.

Those brothers who are from that Jama'at, Jama'at At-Tabligh, they are our brothers. Many of us were with them at one time. Wallahi, Jama'at At-Tabligh helped me to come to the sunnah.

Because I was with those people from the American Muslim Mission, who were just a step above the nation of Islam. They were racist towards white people and they were ignorant, ignorant. And they used to make fun of us trying to learn the sunnah.

If you want to wear a thawb, they say you want to be an Arab. If you want to pray the sunnah prayers, they say you want to be an Arab. They used to say that we were people who thought Islam was bringing sand in your house and riding camels.

We didn't believe that. We wanted to be upon the sunnah. So when we saw that they were enemies to the sunnah, based on knowledge, based on ignorance, we found our brothers from Jama'at At-Tabligh.

And they had akhlaq. And they were praying according to the sunnah. They were paying attention to what we thought was the sunnah at that time.

In comparison, it was much greater. But after being there for a while, we realized this is not a Jama'at that places emphasis on knowledge. And one of the problems is the book, Tabligh-e-Nisab.

Does that mean that those brothers are enemies to Islam and they're in the hellfire and they're the worst? No. And it also doesn't mean that they have knowledge and that's a Jama'at you should be a part of. We call those brothers to learn this religion.

And those six points are all from Islam, but not the way you're understanding them. So the point is, ikhwani, we always mention these things not to run people away. But what are we going to do? Continue to act like the ostrich with his head in the sand? Tabligh-e-Nisab is a book that will... It lies on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) over and over again.

The Severity of Lying on the Prophet

So this is a Kabira from the Kabair. Imam Al-Dhabi said:

Al-Imam Ad-Dahabi said, lying on the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) is disbelief. That will put you outside of Al-Islam. And for a person to intentionally lie on Allah or lie on Rasulullah intentionally, when he makes something halal, haram, or something haram, halal, then this is clear kufr.

But what we're talking about here in this chapter is everything other than that type of lying. So if someone lies on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) intentionally, and he makes istihlal, he makes up a hadith, and he makes istihlal, something that is haram, he makes it halal. And he says Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that.

And he knows the people want to follow him and believe him because he put the stamp of approval on it. That is kufr, because you made istihlal. And there are a lot of people who do that.

The Karamiya do that as a religious effort. The Shiite do that. They claim that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) gave Ahlul Bayt some special information, special affairs that he didn't give to the other ummah.

The Sufis say the same thing. We have been given secret knowledge, esoteric knowledge, knowledge that is batin. And you people, the awam, you do the general knowledge.

The Truthfulness of the Prophet

What is that? Rasulullah was not like that (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Ikhwani, a man who used to make poetry about the wives of Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam), and he was a big problem. He wanted to embrace the religion of Al-Islam, doing the fatah of Mecca. He was a relative of Uthman ibn Affan.

So he asked Uthman, take me to Muhammad, and you protect me so that I can take Islam. Uthman went with him. He got to Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to give him the bayah.

Rasulullah turned away, authentic hadith. Turned away second time, authentic hadith. Turned away the third time, authentic hadith.

And then he gave him the bayah. And then he said to his companions, Isn't there one single man from amongst you who is Rashid? When you saw me turning away from him, why didn't you stand up and kill him? The companions say, Ya Rasulullah, why didn't you blink your eye to let us know? He says:

It is not permissible for a nabi to have an eye that does like that. Because what he says is the haq.

If he says something and did like that, we don't know when is he serious, when is he not serious, when is it halal, when is it haraam.

Another Example of His Truthfulness

Another incident, a man came and said, Ya Rasulullah, I have taken an oath, I made a vow to Allah that if I see so and so, this person, I'm going to chop his head off. And it was in the fatah of Mecca.

And he knew this man may show up. I took an oath, I made a vow, I'm going to chop his head off. Lo and behold, that man came.

He came to give the bayah. He stuck his hand out and Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) looked at the man. And he stood there with his hand out and Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) looked at the man.

And then he took his hand and he gave him the bayah. The man said, Ya Rasulullah, نَذْرِي my oath my oth Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said,When you saw me hesitating to take his hand, why didn't you kill him? Why didn't you fulfill your oath? He said, Ya Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam), why didn't you do like this? He said:

. (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) My name is Nabi

It is not permissible for a Nabi (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to do these things with his head. You know, he said something and he's crossing his feet. That's what we do in America.

You give someone your promise and you do like this means you're not going to do it. Or you cross your feet. So when you tell him I'm doing it, later on he says, Why didn't you do it? I said, I have my fingers crossed.

I have my feet crossed. I have my toes crossed. I have my eyes crossed.

You could say anything. So Ikhwani, what is that though? What's the proof of all of that? What are we trying to prove? When the Nabi says something, it is the deen. And no one can come to add on to it or to subtract from it.

It's complete.

Tell them, what is after the truth? Except the dalaal. After Allah has said what he had to say, what do you have to say except what is dalaal?

And your Lord was not forgetful. He didn't forget something that you're going to bring to the table in this deen.

So don't lie on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam)

First Evidence

الإمام الذهبي رحمه الله تعالى went on to explain the ad-dillah. He brought the first hadith:

Reference: Authentic Hadith

Whoever intentionally lies on me, let him prepare his place in the hellfire.

Who is worse in lying than the one who lies on Allah? That's the worst type of lying. And then after that, lying on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam)

And then after that, lying on the companions.

The Example of Ali ibn Abi Talib

But, look at the ulama of the past, Ikhwan. From them, Ali ibn Abi Talib. When he was dealing with the Khawarij, Ali knew a lot of ahadith talking about him and his virtues. Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

No one loves you except the believer. And no one hates you except the munafiq.

We love Ali and everyone from Ahlul Bayt. Even if he's in this masjid and he's a prayer. He has some taqwa, he has some deen.

We love Ahlul Bayt. Ali knew this hadith. So he was dealing with the Khawarij.

So that they won't think he was lying. He said, making taqwa:

So the shahid is, Ali preferred to be thrown from the sky. Before he said, Rasulullah said something that he didn't say. That's the scholars of Al-Islam, the ulama of Al-Hadith.

The Scholars of Al-Hadith

And we're Al-Hadith, Al-Hadith. What I mean by Al-Hadith, again, not the football team, Al-Hadith. We're not Breweries, we're not deal bundies, we're not this, we're not that.

Al-Hadith, in your aqeedah, in your ibadah, in your understanding of the deen. The ulama of Al-Hadith, when they had a guy who would read the book of Al-Hadith. They used to be tough, and they would choose a man النحو ,who knew

He knew the فَاعِ and the مَفْعُولُ بِهِ and the نَائِبِ الْفَاعِلِ. He knew how to make the tashkeel of the words. Where's the and so forth and so on, why? Because if you read it wrong, you may change what Rasulullah said.

And that scholar thought it was his responsibility to let the one read who knew what he was doing in النحو They took it that far. Some of the tabi'een like Habib ibn Thabit رحمه الله تعالى

When they used to narrate hadith, ikhwani, they used to say, such and such companion told me that this was said. And you understood that it was said by Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). But they would never say, such and such a companion told me Rasulullah said this or that.

He was afraid of either raising the hadith to Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) Ina hadith, if a man lies on Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wasallam) in the hadith, he becomes مَطْرُوحٍ left because he lied in the hadith.

The worst hadith is the hadith that's مَوْضُوع someone in the chain of narration is a كَذَّاب

Examples of Weak and Fabricated Hadiths

Right here in this masjid, I have some small students here, Ubaida, Zakaria, some of the small students. What's your name again? Abdulrahman, what's your name? Huh? Shakir.

Say it like a man, Shakir. Good job man. We have these little students like this.

For you to lie on one of those guys is حَرَام. It's a كَذِب from the كَذِب. الكَذِبِ وَالافْتِرَاء

What about to lie on the Sayyid Bani Adam. The خَاتَمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالرُّسُلِ. Weak hadith should be rejected.

حَدِيث مَوْضُوع should be rejected.

أَصْحَابِي كَالنُّجُومِ بِأَيِّهِمُ اقْتَدَيْتُمْ اهْتَدَيْتُمْ

My companions are like the stars. Anyone you follow, you'll be guided.

The most hated halal thing to Allah is طَلاق

He never said that.

Paradise under the feet of the mother.

Second Evidence

حَرام صلى الله عليه وسلم So lying on Rasulullah is صلى الله عليه وسلم Rasulullah never said that

:said صلى الله عليه وسلم That the Prophet الإمام الذهبي وعفا الله عنا وعن إخواننا النساء

Whoever says something that I did not say and he claims that I said it, then let him prepare his place in the hellfire.

Whoever lied upon me, a house will be built for him in the hellfire.

So lying on him is كَبِيرَة from the كَبَائِر. الإمام الذهبي said, and he brought this hadith:

The Muslim, the مُؤْمِن the Muslim, he may do anything, except he will not act treacherous. He will not be treacherous towards the amanah, nor will he lie.

That's a famous hadith.

Note on the Weakness of the Above Hadith

That hadith is weak. It's not authentic. And Imam Al-Zahabi in his book, he did not tell us it wasn't authentic.

And Imam Al-Zahabi brought this hadith as if he's using it for a dalil, because he said:

This is a very critical point.

And Imam Al-Zahabi is an imam in Islam, an imam in the hadith. But الكَمَا لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ. Here Imam Al-Zahabi is dealing with the chapter of weak hadith, and he brings a weak hadith.

The scholars of Al-Islam, whenever they brought a weak hadith, they would say, قِيلُ. It is said that Rasulullah said that.

They used the sighat التَّمْرِيد. It was said. And Imam Al-Zahabi said:

The prophet said. So that was a mistake. But I'm more than willing right here right now to wager everything that I hold dear from my monetary property that Imam Al-Zahabi knew this hadith was weak.

Third Evidence

The last hadith that he brings as a delil is that Imam Al-Zahabi said that Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

It is not permissible.

For the jama'a : فَهُوَ أَحَدُ الْكَاذِبِينَ

Whoever says a hadith and he attributes that hadith to me and he knows that he's lying. Then that man is one of the liars.

The plurals. Whoever knows the hadith is not authentic and he says Rasulullah said it then he is one of the liars.

That's one way of understanding it in the plural.

The other way of understanding it is whoever narrates a hadith and says it's from me and he knows it's not from me. He is one of the two liars. One of the two liars.

He's that person who is narrating the hadith and he knows he's lying. You're a liar. Because you're lying intentionally.

The other one is the one who says Rasulullah did something but he doesn't know he's lying but he's still lying. So he's considered to be a liar.

كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ إِثْمًا أَن يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ

The Argument of Lying FOR the Prophet

That's the two chapters for today. To end this last chapter, Ikhwani, about lying on Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم

There are a group of people who say, Look, we use the hadith.

The reason why our book تَبْلِيعُ النِّصَابِ and these other books are like that is because of the other hadith:

Whoever lies on me with the intention to misguide the people, then let him get his place in the hellfire.

So those people say, We lie for Rasulullah and we don't lie on Rasulullah.

We are lying for him to get the people to do more salah, to get the people to do more ibadah, to get the people to take care of the armala and the yateem and the fuqara. So we create these hadith. Whoever takes care of the yateem will have 10 trillion houses in jannah and each house is a billion and a half huru'een.

And then the people in the audience say, Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah. And he's encouraged to go and take care of the yateem from a hadith that's da'if. I'm lying for Rasulullah.

This is not permissible. This is not permissible. Number one, because this addition to misguide the people, this ziyadah is da'ifah.

All of the ulama without any exception are in agreement that when it says, whoever lies on him, to make the people go astray, that is an addition that is not authentic. Allah جل و عز sent men to protect this sunnah, the hadith of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم. So it's matruka, marduda.

Secondly, the scholar said, and even if it was authentic, even if it was authentic, then that narration, that ziyadah would be of the seriousness of lying, like the ayat that we mentioned:

Who is worse in lying, more oppressive than the one who lies on Allah to make the people go astray. So lying on Allah is bad.

But when you lie on Allah to make the people go astray, it's even worse. Lying on Rasulullah is bad. But when you lie on him to make the people go astray, it's even worse, if that ziyadah was authentic.

And there are other radood that they use, but we're not going to take time out dealing with that. We want to make this point concerning lying on Rasulullah.

The Call to Purify the Religion

Ikhwani, we have to get back to the pure religion of the Quran and the sunnah.

التَّصْفِيَةُ وَالتَّرْبِيَةُ

As the ulema of Islam are saying today. التَّصْفِيَةُ let us clean up and purify those things that we are attributing to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

Christians go astray for any other reason other than that they're saying, God said, let there be light.

God said, I love the world so much, I sent my only begotten son. God said this and God said that. Where did God say that? Where is that at? People lied on him.

People lied on Allah. People lied on his nabi, his rasul, Isa. What's the difference between us and them? That is the way of the Yahud.

So we're going to stop here. Inshallah ta'ala, we want you to wake up as it relates to the hadith that you read. Try to stick to those issues and those books that you know are authentic.

And now alhamdulillah, there is a renaissance of information, a renaissance of knowledge, academics, where books are being translated and written with the idea and the niyah of only putting what is authentic. It is permissible to narrate the hadith that is weak, but only when you tell the people this is weak.

If you don't tell them that it is weak, it's haram to narrate it, you shouldn't narrate it.

And whether it's in the aqidah, or the ahkam, or the mawa'id, the tarheeb or tarheeb, it doesn't matter. Lying on Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم is not permissible.

Questions and Answers

Any questions? These two questions are not connected to the dars.

Question 1: Giving Money to Foolish Parents

. تَفَضَّلْ يَا أَخِي، رَضْوَانُ

This person, do you like your mother, do you like your father, for example, do you give money to them?

Concerning the father, don't give your money to the foolish ones. The person may be an elder who has haq or huquq over you like your mother or your father.

So does that mean we can't give him our money? We give anyone who is safeeh, and he has a right and a position over us, we give him enough to take care of what he needs to do. But if he's going to waste the money or harm himself, then we don't help him.

Cooperate with each other on righteousness, and in fear of Allah.

Don't cooperate with each other on evil and in disobeying Allah.

If they order you to make shirk with me, which you don't have any knowledge, don't listen to them, don't obey them, your mother and your father. But be a good companion.

Question 2: Types of Permissible Lying

Concerning lying, lying is a kabira from the kabair, whether it's on Rasulullah or not. When it's on the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, it's ashad and a'adham, it's more serious.

But he did tell us صلى الله عليه وسلم, in a number of ahadith:

It is not lying, and he is not a liar.

The one who says good to make peace between people. So you can lie to make peace between war and factions.

I went to him and I said, this brother who you had the problem with, he was crying, and he feels bad about what happened, but he's afraid to come to you because he feels you're still upset.

And then when he hears that, he calms down. And I go to him, I said, I talked to him, he's calm. He wants to make peace and so forth.

This is not considered to be lying, he said صلى الله عليه وسلم. And for a man to lie to his wife, and for his wife to lie back to him. But the lying where they don't steal each other's rights. And thirdly, lying in war.

الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ

War is treachery. You have to play games in war. That is an authentic hadith.

But it is not permissible to lie on Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم to make peace between two people. It is not permissible for the husband to lie on Rasulullah to the wife, or the wife to the husband on Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم. It is not permissible in the battle to lie to the people and say, our Prophet said that we can rob these banks, and our Prophet said that we can blow you up, and our Prophet said that this is jihad. That lying is not صلى الله عليه وسلم permissible on Rasulullah

Question 3: Adoption in Islam

This is the last question, and then we're gonna deal with these two questions, and we got an announcement.

About adoption, you said that adoption is not permissible as well. Can you explain what you mean by adoption now? The social services have a Muslim child, a Muslim is an adopter. What do you mean by adoption?

Adoption in Al-Islam, Ikhwan is abrogated, has been abrogated in the religion of Al-Islam.

We're going to give a class on adoption. We're going to give a class on how to get divorced, because many people are divorcing, and they're saying to their wives, you're divorced, you're divorced, you're divorced, and we're divorcing wrong, and we're marrying wrong, and these issues need to be dealt with.

But very briefly here today, Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم adopted Zayd ibn Harithah radiyallahu anhu, in Jahiliyyah.

And then Al-Islam came and abrogated that, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala established that those people who you adopted, they are not your sons. So don't call them your sons. Call them by the names of their fathers.

So it's not permissible to adopt a child, and give him your name, and he inherits from you. That's not permissible. When it comes of age, your daughters are not halal for him to see them.

He can marry your daughters. They call it a tabanni. It's not permissible in the religion.

But with the social services, if you want to get a child, they use the word adopt. All of the legal documents are adopt, adopt. We say as the ulema say:

There's no big deal about the technical terms. I'm going to fight my brother. He's saying صَلَاةُ الْفَجْرِ is wajib.

I'm saying it's fard. He says, no, wajib. I say, no, it's fard.

Wajib, fard. And we're going back. And both words lead to the same aim.

So if they're saying adoption, we leave that. We're not going to go and say, you must not use that word adoption. It's I can't adopt.

Just go and adopt the boy according to their system. But keep in your mind, when you take the boy, he can't take your name. He is someone who's edgy to be from your children.

When they grow up, he can marry your daughters and so forth and so on.