THE
SPREAD OF INNOVATED HADEETH AND DU’AA’S VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
ASSEMBLED BY MALLAM ABBA
ABANA, KUBWA, ABUJA, NIGERIA
http://variousislamicdawadocuments.blogspot.com
Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala
Rasulillah. As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu
Praise
be to Allaah; we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah
from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides
will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can
guide. I bear witness
that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Sallalhu alaihi Wasalam) is His slave and Messenger.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more
dangerous than ignorance: Quoted from George Bernard Shaw.
CLARIFICATION ABOUT
THE SPREAD OF INNOVATED DU’AA’S
Today we have widespread
on the internet writing of fabricated ahadeeth and innovated du’as on forums. Many
are ignorant and do not know if those ahadeeth and du’as are sound or weak.
People became attached to such things; they forward them to one another via the
internet and mobile phones. What shall we do when we find such ahadeeth and
aduas?
Our duty is to support the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and to love him properly by
following him properly and protecting the purity of his sharee’ah at a time
when the fools and haters are showing a great deal of disrespect towards him
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Undoubtedly one of the greatest
ways of supporting the faith and honouring the Messenger is being truthful in narrating
his words and reports from him, and rejecting the lies that are attributed to
him. If we know that no one would accept to have words attributed to him that
he did not say, then what should we think about the Messenger who received
Revelation from Allaah, may He be blessed and exalted, and his eternal
sharee’ah which came to set the affairs of all people straight until the Day of
Resurrection? Undoubtedly he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is the
one who would most hate to have lies attributed to him. Hence al-Mugheerah ibn
Shu’bah (may Allaah be pleased with him) narrated that he said: “Lying about me
is not like lying about anyone else. Whoever tells a lie about me deliberately,
let him take his place in Hell.” Narrated by Muslim in the Introduction to his Saheeh
(no. 4). Al-Haafiz Ibn Hibbaan included a similar hadeeth from Abu Hurayrah
under the heading: Chapter: Inevitability of entering Hell for one who
attributes anything to al-Mustafa (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
when he does not know whether it is sound.
By Allaah, the Muslim is astounded when
he sees people doing their utmost to avoid falling into blatant sin, such as
cheating, backbiting, stealing or committing zina, then they treat this matter
with such carelessness, thinking that it is insignificant when in fact it is
very serious before Allaah. So you see them memorizing false ahaadeeth and
narrating them in gatherings and on websites, and they do not take care to ask
about that or to verify whether they are saheeh (sound).
SPREADING
A HADEETH WITHOUT ASCERTAINING WHETHER IT IS SAHEEH OR NOT
Everyone who spreads a hadeeth without
ascertaining whether it is saheeh – whether that is via a text message or in an
internet forum or transferring it from one site to another or attaching it to
an e-mail – should understand that he is deserving of that punishment in the
Hereafter, both he and the one who fabricated the hadeeth in the first place.
The crime of transmitting it without verifying it is like the crime of the liar
who has the audacity to show disrespect towards the Messenger (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him).
The Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever narrates a hadeeth from me thinking that it
is false is one of the liars.” Narrated by Muslim in the Introduction to his Saheeh
(p. 7).
Al-Nawawi said, commenting on this
hadeeth in Sharh Muslim (1/65): This is a stern warning against
lying or taking part in narrating lies. The one who thinks that what he is
narrating is mostly likely false but still narrates it is a liar; how can he not
be a liar when he is narrating something that did not happen? End quote.
Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said in Tamaam al-Minah (32-34): Many writers –
especially in the current era – regardless of their MADHHABS AND SPECIALITIES,
narrate ahaadeeth that are attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) without pointing out which are DA’EEF (WEAK), either
because they are ignorant of the Sunnah or they are too lazy to refer to the
books of specialists. Abu Shaamah said in al-Baa’ith ‘ala Inkaar al-Bida’
wa’l-Hawaadith (p. 54): This, according to the scholars of hadeeth and of
usool and fiqh is a mistake, and it should be pointed out if known, otherwise
it comes under the warning in the hadeeth in which the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever narrates a hadeeth from me
thinking that it is false is one of the liars.” Narrated by Muslim. End
quote.
This is the ruling of one who keeps
quiet about da’eef (weak) ahaadeeth about righteous deeds! So how about if it
has to do with rulings and the like?
It should be noted that the one who
does that has to be one of two things:
1 – Either he knows that these
ahaadeeth are weak but he does not point out their weakness, so he is deceiving
the Muslims and he definitely is included in the warning mentioned. Ibn Hibbaan
said in his book al-Du’afa’ (1/7-8): This report indicates that the one
who narrates something that is not saheeh from the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him), which is something fabricated about him and he know
that, then he is like one of the liars, but the apparent meaning of the report
is stricter than that. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: “Whoever narrates a hadeeth from me thinking that it is false ...” And he
did not say ‘and he is certain that it is false’. So anyone who doubts whether
what he is narrating is saheeh or not is included in the apparent meaning of
this report.
2 – Or he does not know that it is
weak, but he is also sinning because he is attributing it to the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) without knowledge, and he (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is sufficient lying for a man to
speak of everything that he hears.” Narrated by Muslim in the Introduction to
his Saheeh (no. 5)
So he has a share of the sin of the one who told the lie about the Messenger
of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), because the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) indicated that the one who speaks
of everything that he hears – and the one who writes everything that he hears –
will inevitably lie about him (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and
thus he is one of the two liars, the first of whom is the one who fabricates it
and the second of whom is the one who spreads it.
Ibn Hibbaan also said (1/9): The report
also contains a rebuke to the one who speaks of everything that he hears,
unless he knows that it is definitely sound. End quote.
Al-Nawawi stated that if a person does
not know whether a hadeeth is weak, it is not permissible for him to quote it
as evidence without examining it if he is knowledgeable, or asking scholars
about it if he is not knowledgeable. End quote from Shaykh al-Albaani (may
Allaah have mercy on him).
SPREADING
HADEETH THEY FABRICATE FAR AND WIDE TO REACH MILLIONS THROUGH MANY GENERATIONS
What these people are falling into –
when they spread ahaadeeth without checking or verifying – is very serious, as
they spread what they fabricate far and wide and it is read by millions of
people, and it is transmitted through many generations. The one who fabricated
it and the one who helped him to spread it will bear that sin until the Day of
Resurrection.
It was narrated from Samurah ibn Jundub
(may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Last night I saw two men come to
me … they said: ‘The one whom you saw with the side of his mouth being torn is
the liar who tells lies that are conveyed from him until they reach the
horizon; that will be done to him until the Day of Resurrection.’” Narrated by
al-Bukhaari (6096).
PROPAGATING
FALSE AHAADEETH IS ONE OF THE WORST MEANS OF CORRUPTING RELIGION
All we can do – in the light of all
these warnings – is to remind ourselves and our Muslim brothers to fear Allaah
with regard to our religion and sharee’ah, and not to be the cause of doom and
corruption. Propagating false ahaadeeth is one of the worst means of corrupting
religion; the Jews and Christians were only doomed when they fabricated lies
against Allaah and His Messengers, and they attributed things to their
religions that the Messengers did not bring, thus they incurred the wrath and
anger of Allaah.
1.
Does these people who are so careless
about fabricating ahaadeeth without verifying them want to be included with
those with whom Allaah is angry and whom He has cursed?
2.
Would anyone want to be a tool for the
propagation of corrupting material, or to help the heretics who tell lies
against our sharee’ah and our Prophet?
3.
Or would he work to propagate ahaadeeth
without checking them to imitate groups that follow misguidance such as the
Raafidis who have filled the world with lies against the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the members of his household?
4.
Do these people realize that their prayer,
fasting and worship will not avail them anything before Allaah and will not
ward off from them the shame and sin of that lie, if they take part in propagating
these false ahaadeeth?
5.
There may be a sin that a person
commits, taking it lightly, but it will cause him to fall into the Fire and be
the cause of his doom.
Abu’l-Wafa’ ‘Ali ibn ‘Aqeel al-Hanbali
said: Our Shaykh Abu’l-Fadl al-Hamdaani said: Those who introduce
innovations in Islam and fabricate ahaadeeth are worse than the heretics, because
the heretics want to corrupt the religion from without, but these people want
to corrupt it from within. They are like the people of a city who want to
spread evil and corruption inside it, but the heretics are like those who are
besieging it from without, and those evildoers within are able to open the gate
to the enemy. They are more dangerous to Islam than those who do not claim to
be Muslims. End quote. Quoting from al-Mawdoo’aat by Ibn al-Jawzi
(1/51).
WHO
APOLOGIZES FOR HIS MISCHIEF BY SAYING THE WEAK AHAADEETH MAY BE QUOTED AS
EVIDENCE
After all of that there comes to you
one who apologizes for his mischief and spreading false ahaadeeth by saying:
The weak ahaadeeth may be quoted as evidence with regard to righteous
deeds.
But he should understand that this is
the deception of the shaytaan, and it is a sign of sophisticated ignorance; the
one who says this will increase his burden of sin. This principle, which was
mentioned by some scholars, is subject to a number of conditions, which must be
followed by the one who wants to apply it. They are:
1- The hadeeth should
have to do with righteous deeds for which there is a basis in sharee’ah, and
not with matters of ‘aqeedah, rulings or reports on which fiqh and actions are
based. It should not have to do with righteous deeds for which there is no
basis in sharee’ah.
2- It should not be
very weak (da’eef). It is not permissible to narrate or act upon mawdoo’
(fabricated) and munkar ahaadeeth, according to scholarly consensus.
3- It should not be
believed that it can be attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him).
4- The one who
narrates the hadeeth should state clearly that it is weak, or he should
indicate its weakness by using phrases to indicate that it is weak: it was
narrated, it was said, and so on.
These conditions are derived from the
words of al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar in his book Tabyeen al-‘Ajab and some of them were
narrated from al-‘Izz ibn ‘Abd al-Salaam ibn Daqeeq al-Eid.
So those scholars who follow this
principle do not say that it is permissible to do what these people are doing
by publishing every hadeeth and every report in the chat rooms, whether it is
saheeh or false or da’eef (weak).
Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said in Tamaam al-Minah (36): Unfortunately we see
many of the scholars – let alone the common folk – neglecting these conditions,
so they act on the basis of a hadeeth without knowing whether it is saheeh or
da’eef, and if they know it is weak they do not know to what extent – is it
slightly weak or is it so weak that it may not be accepted? Then they
demonstrate that they are accepting it and acting upon it as if it were a
saheeh hadeeth . Hence there are many acts of worship done by Muslims which are
not valid, and which distract them from valid acts of worship which were
narrated with sound isnaads. End quote.
SIGN OF AN IGNORANT PERSON
IN ISLAM
Man is unjust and ignorant: These two qualities are
expressed in the following verse: “Surely he is very unjust, very ignorant” (Holy Quran Chapter 33:72). Two
qualities, man being very unjust and his being very ignorant are expressly emphasized.
In Arabic there is a difference ilm, and alam. A Zalim is a person who commits
sin, even if only once. It means a person who is very ignorant or completely
unwise. Human beings suffer from ignorance and injustice. The unjust act is not
restricted to others. It can be applied to the person himself. “Every person who breaks Divine laws, has
oppressed himself” (Holy Quran Chapter 65:1). If a person does not pray or
fast then he has been unjust to himself. When a person beats someone or robs
him of his money, he is initially doing a disservice to himself, then to the
other person. Committing a sin is just like drinking poisoned water. Now if
this person drinks poison, he is hurting himself. The same logic can be applied
when he harms another being. The consequences of his ill acts would be his
destroying the bases of his inherent God-given purity. He initiates hindrances
on the way to his perfection.
The Signs of an Ignorant Person - Abud-Darda (May Allah be satisfied with him) said: “The signs of the ignorant one are three: self-conceit, much talk in that which does not concern him, and forbidding others from something he himself commits.” Gems and Jewels; Compiled by: Abdul-Malik Mujahid
Publisher: Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, ISBN: 9960-897-59-1, (Page 179)
"Every child comes to the world with a pure soul suitable for becoming a Muslim. Later their parents make them irreligious." This implies that it is necessary to teach Islam to children. Their pure souls are suitable for Islam. A child who has not learned Islam will misunderstand Islam by falling for the lies and slanders of the enemies of religion. He will think that it is retrogressive or vicious. If a person who is religiously unlearned and who has never received any religious instruction or notion of Islam falls into the traps of the enemies of Islam, he will learn quite a different, altogether contrary system instead of Islam. He will fall victim to the poisonous inoculations and shamelessly fabled writings directed to him. He will not find peace in this world. And he will be drifted into endless calamities and tortures in the next world.
Every Muslim, even every person, must know how low, how base the slanders which are fabled by the enemies of Islam in order to deceive the youth are. And in order not to drift into calamity by believing these lies, we should comprehend the sublimity of Islam, realize that it helps knowledge, science, morals and health, and that it commands working, advancement, cooperation and mutual love. A wise, vigilant and cultured person who has understood Islam correctly and well, will not believe in the lies of the enemies of Islam. Seeing that they are religiously ignorant, uneducated, deceived and wretched people, he will pity them. He will wish that they could get rid of that disastrous state and come round to the right course.
In Summary:
1. Ignorance implies a lack of awareness, while
stupidity implies the inability to understand.
2. Ignorance can be removed by the acquisition of
knowledge, while a stupid person is intrinsically so, and therefore difficult
to reform.
3. Ignorance is caused by the circumstances of one’s
life, whereas stupidity is due to an attitude problem or mental deficiency in
the person concerned.
4. While the reasons of ignorance are universally the
same, stupidity is often defined by one’s perception of what comprises
stupidity.
A verse from
the Qur’an says “turn away from the ignorant.” (Holy Quran Chapter Araf, 199).
If our mother and father do not know how to write and read and dispute with us
on the subjects of religion, should we turn away from them and leave?
The people who are mentioned
as ignorant in the verses are mostly unbelievers, cruel people and wrongdoers
rather than illiterate ones. If the mother and father wish something that is
against the orders of Allah (SWT), then their children should not perform their
wishes. The expression stated as turning away does not mean leaving completely
but avoiding to perform their requests that are haram and unjust. However, it
is necessary to show them their mistakes and try to correct their false beliefs
because this way is suitable for the cause of the existence of Islam and, in
general, the wisdom of the prophets’ being sent.
It is understood that even if
a mother and father are unbelievers, we should treat them in accordance with
humanistic values and respect them and take care of them as their children. The
fact that giving nafaqah (sustenance) to parents even if they are unbelievers
is wajib is deduced from this hadith.
The importance of giving
nafaqa to the parents and respecting them even if they are unbelievers is
understood from this fact: revelation came because of the incident above and
the subject was judged in the Qur’an.
“Allah forbids you not,
with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of
your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those
who are just.” (Holy Quran Chapter Surah al-Mumtahina, 60/8)
This verse is clearer about
respecting the parents even if they are unbelievers: "But if they strive
to make the join in worship with Me things of which thou hast no knowledge obey
them not; Yet bear them company in this life with justice (and consideration)
and follow the way of those who turn to Me…” (Holy Quran chapter Surah Luqman
31/15)
THE
DOOR OF REPENTANCE IS OPEN SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION OF DISCLOSURE AFTER
CONCEALMENT, AND CORRECTION AFTER CORRUPTION
If a person repents from propagating
false ahaadeeth or he finds out that what he was doing is haraam after he was
unaware of the ruling, then the door of repentance is open, but it is subject
to the condition of disclosure after concealment, and correction after
corruption.
Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning): “Except those who repent and do righteous deeds, and openly
declare (the truth which they concealed). These, I will accept their
repentance. And I am the One Who accepts repentance, the Most Merciful”[Hoy
Quran Chapter al-Baqarah 2:160].
CONCLUSION
Hence every Muslim should propagate
saheeh hadeeth instead of false and fabricated ones. The books of the saheeh
Sunnah are filled – by Allaah’s grace – with proven ahaadeeth which if a man
were to spend his life memorizing and studying them, he would hardly be able to
do it. It is sufficient to find a scholar of hadeeth who has judged a hadeeth
to be saheeh and acceptable, so let him accept it from him and propagate the
hadeeth along with the scholar’s ruling on it.
But if it so happens that he has propagated
weak ahaadeeth, then he must publish the comments of the scholars concerning
them. On our site there are a number of answers concerning weak ahaadeeth that
are widespread on forums, and he can make use of these answers. That includes
the hadeeth mentioned in the question, which has been explained as da’eef
(weak).
This soul knowingly does things that harm it, because of its inherent unjust and ignorant nature. For the Muslim who has submitted fully to Allaah, Soorat al-‘Asr is enough, of which al-Shaafa’i (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: If Allaah had not revealed any soorah to His slaves apart from this, that would have been sufficient for them.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “By Al-‘Asr (the time).Verily, man is in loss, Except those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth [i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma‘roof) which Allaah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar) which Allaah has forbidden], and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allaah’s Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad)”[Holy Quran Chapter al-‘Asr 103:1-3]
Every kind of human being is in a state of loss, apart from those who fulfill these conditions. We ask Allaah to make us among them and to make us steadfast in following this path. May Allah forgive us and protect us from misguidance.
And Allaah knows best.
REFERENCES
Islam Q&A
https://islamqa.info/en/98821.
https://islamqa.info/en/44877
https://islamqa.info/en/49675.
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