The Preservation of the Sunnah in light of the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh,Muwatta, & Amal of Ahl-ul-Madinah

so the motto is a collection of hadith which part of which reflects practices 50 rulings other aspects of which also reflect more so and a methodology so maybe Imam Malik sometimes it's bringing hadith and then saying you know ELISA allele I'm a liability now we don't really practice according to this sometimes he said I've had easier on purpose to show people that I'm not ignorant of these hadith I know them on other times he brings them to demonstrate the ruling so there's a

mixed kind of ingredient to that one could hope that you know what if only was very clear where he's doing what sometimes he does elaborate sometimes he doesn't you have to remember these are some of the earliest written texts ever on such literature and such hadith on hadith or things like they are amongst I mean today it's the oldest really renowned book we have in the entire world to do with hadith I mean I wouldn't really I don't really pay much attention to decipher and stuff like

that but that's in general so considering that it naturally would be in a very primordial very kind of provisional state so you can't expect it to be highly super well-organized lineage highlighting everything if this is one of the first people amongst the first people to pioneer in this so that's the the other thing is I think you you may have a slight misunderstanding or maybe not about I'm I'll I've got a brief clip on YouTube it may be worth watching that as well the

Amin of al-madinah is Sunnah it falls under the category of Sunnah not of anything else so some people have mistakenly because the term is MA is used some by some Malik here referring to the Honorable Medina's the aged ma of al-madinah so some people have mistakenly placed that under the category of each ma it's not a niche mine's never been in each ma because in each ma or Bob is not a niche market or and that would be a weak argument to say the each ma of Madinah outweighs the each one mismo of the um

MA and that's not the wording of Imam Malik when he justifies he says a thousand from a thousand are better than one from one the one from one I had transmissions he says will snatch the Dean from in front of you and I think that's what's actually happened today so we have let go of the solid tradition and we've embraced the isolated hardly Wyatt and therefore we have lost the theme in its crew Christine sense and what we've got today is unfortunately a lot of which is a bundle of chaos and

confusion but because we followed the this other methodology of just taking hobro I had a bit more of a chef a approach as the ultimate but near so that's so the animal is a falls and asuna the conclusive Sunna that was the practice differentiating between hadith and sauna because hadith is a documentation of of some guidance or some tradition of the Prophet it doesn't

mean it had to be the practiced documentation the practiced tradition it could have been an abundant tradition it could have been a misunderstood tradition it could have been a misrepresented tradition could have been an isolated tradition as mom Alex that will be uses that one he says you know our mother Naomi well Aleph Allah you know whether this had LAN happened one day or one night some way I don't know when I don't really care but this is the adhan of the Prophet that the children have inherited from the fathers who have been Harry directly from the profit so that is an example of the Amal

now the Amal was the lived practice which is the Sunnah but it is to do with what the Maliki a call and Mancala tewara the apparent perceptible ostensible the visible kind of actions that were being practiced okay if an element of each theyhad enters it which it can does that still remain the Amal this many Olimar would say that remains the animal they still refer to that as the amal but they would split this into

two tiers so you have the primary almond which is the Kuhlman and you have the extended Amal or the secondary animal secondary animal is that which rests upon each DeHart this according to some of the Arrakeen was a huge attention yet just as strong as the first primary amal according to most of the Maliki the secondary animal or the the the extended animal was the same as cobra a hat so it's there it's you know my held another it's something minute og had it's something that you can take as a point

of consideration you can weigh it up against the odds you can evaluate it but it's not cutting conclusive the way the Amal is so that's something which is worth noting in a brief example of this is let's say the other on something very clear very visible let's say the Prophet praying audibly in certain prayers now that is ostensibly that is perceptible that that is the man kulit voir era the traditions the practices the apparent transmissions the apparent so the perceptible transmissions of the

Prophet so now let's say somebody was to say well as an example right did the Prophet pray when he read aloud did he used to say bismil era Raheem before during Fatiha now the Amin would say he never used to do bismillah r-rahman r-rahim he would just begin by saying al hamdulillah rub it on me now one could argue each the heart the secondary extended layer of Hamid and say well did he not do the bismillah at all because the yell did or did he do

that silently because today if he did it in his mind there's no way of knowing that except by actually assessment your each the heart it's not something which is a transmission it's an omission so it's something that's been omitted but was it done silently so here you'd have to kind of analyze the situation so this would fall under an HT Hardy element of the Amal but I mean that could be supported by other evidences so that's what I'm trying to give an example of oh if the Prophet never said I mean loud did he say it at all

as an example so when the Imam gets up and says Samir Laden and Hamidah and then people say robber now like an hunters the imam say now we don't hear the imam audibly saying it does that mean he admits it does that mean he says it silently these are all my hello Natha okay points of the point of analyses so you can kind of like analyze them and evaluate the situation and this by extension I'm giving Saleh examples because they're very obvious but you could use any other examples the am Allah is not necessarily in so many things but it is there and it is a core part of this theme as transmitted by the

school of Medina all right so the other thing is a core part of the Sunna is preserved in fit as well and that's an important point because as opposed I mean it is preserved in hadith but there's many hadith which are not sooner and this distinction was also made by nam abu hanifa but neglected and rejected by Imam Shafi a medieval humble and the other Imams so but this was a key insight and wisdom that the senior two Imams were privy to

and I think this was a I would argue perhaps a shortcoming in the perception and understanding of the lateral Imams who took a very what I feel is a rigid approach but I mean a very textural approach but they missed you know it's that it's the kind of the trees for the wood kind of thing for the woods so my point here is that Imam Abu Hanifa mom highly differentiated they said not every hadith is a Sunnah and so the question is so where is the Sunna preserved it is preserved in hadith not

necessarily in all of them it is preserved in the armor but it is also preserved in faith firk was susceptible to a lot less corruption than hadith because there wasn't as much motivation to corrupt hadith there was a lot of motivation to I mean there was it was too rgeous and difficult and insurmountable of a task to corrupt the Quran because when people when a lot of people were forced into Islam I say forced or they entered into Islam detest

flee like they didn't really like Islam but they entered into it either for political gains or just because everybody around them was becoming Muslim so there was no point and and this was the early period that is referred to as in the ex and these kind of munafiqeen who were truly coof are just pretending to be Muslim and they were always many of them were always seeking to harm Islam and a lot of these were from the Persian Empire and obviously from the Roman the remnants of the Roman Empire too but a lot of these people were part and the Persians why so because they were a lot more organized

sometimes with their traditions and their stuff so in addition with as well there's some of the Christians and so you start to see certain attempts to corrupt Islam the issue is trying to corrupt the Quran is that the Quran was the core document that all Muslims were had endeavoured in in transmitting and teaching to their children as a primary goal so it was ever it was ubiquitous it was you see everybody was just focusing on the or on so it became difficult to say let's

corrupt one surah of the Quran you corrupted in Basra but everybody everywhere else knows it the second thing is okay so one it was difficult because of the ubiquitous nature of the Quran that the kind of widespread nature of it - if you corrupt that what is the purpose of corrupting something it is to kind of almost sneak in a virus to sneak in a belief or something that will end up kind of infecting that corpus and destroying it now to sneak something into the or on is difficult why because the Quran comes in one it comes in a

very rhythmic nature - it has a very select style so each surah has a very select style to it three the Quran bites Nature doesn't delve into certain issues in detail so for you to try to corrupt it not only would you have to go against an entire kind of wave of widespread transmission of this book but you would have to bring me such a belief that you could sneak in as a virus but then you would have to plant it in a surah matching the style of that surah now this was almost it was an insurmountable

task you couldn't really do that the other thing was that Muslims started to preserve very early because hadith isn't preserved like it isn't documented with is not till at least one hundred and ten hundred twenty years after the Prophet at least so the first documentation of her it is probably 90 years after the Prophet way under Omer if not elaziz but that's without it's not so when a man's ovary is even chef Zoe is documenting hadith and evocative Nizam there are no

assignment the asana come after them so probably within the next decade at the very least or two decades they come in by the time even Assyrian and all these other scholars have seriously matured in thought and things like that so thick is something that scholars started document and but corrupting shake was another issue because if he corrupt thick it's not a universal authority like if I sneaked in some Futaba by saying in my Malik's at this people in Kufa wouldn't

care if I said even abuela said this in cooler than people in he just wouldn't came Macao Medina if I said later Burnside said this then people in sham wouldn't care and if I said also he said these ten people in Egypt wouldn't care so because of the the the lack of universal authority fact although it was easy to corrupt but there was a lack of motivation to corrupt it so that left the ideal and optimum treasure one could say to loot and corrupt and that was the body of hadith the corpus of hadith so

this is why people set about rampantly making up hadith because it's the easiest thing you could possibly do and Muslims make it up there's many reports of Muslims making it up there's people making it up for and against the government of the time the ruling body this hadith been made up for rulings this hadith being made up for sectarian stuff this hadith been made up for virtues of the Quran this hadith been made up for people later on many I mean not certain people later on quite openly acknowledge that they made of happiness there's people saying you know when I couldn't find evidences - and these are great scholar saying when I couldn't

find evidences to support them about someone so I just made a body and that's Wow okay but that that is so you get many people if never your waist is one of the people said you know I when I couldn't find you I just made up I had to support mother by hand in Medina for example which is utterly unacceptable but still you know no Hitler I'd never Marie I'm with his I made up Hadid so people will return to the Quran and these kind of things and so the point is and a lot of the that she I would make about these the Sunnis would make up hadith people make about these form a year people make about these antibody

and when you this is a also what I've argued on a separate note is where the fabrication of all the Messiah concept comes in one may be to support one could argue to support the government with the virtues of sham but I would also see this as an angle to show that the government or the ruling body would be overthrown that a messiah would come in the Messiah would have to even the Messiah would have to succumb to the authority of the father of a person who is from the Isle bait because the elevat-- were the people that were fighting against Benito Minya at the

time and the power of Bonnie ma was in Damascus and we would Jesus land he would land there to destroy Damascus how to conquer Surrey but these are some interesting points anyway I've kind of gone on quite a bit here to highlight that so one although many much of the Sun man is preserved in hadith my point of saying this is it it's also preserved in fur so it's always worth checking all of these balancing them out against the three which is as the ala ma Hadees say my lamb you buying in mock overall mu Holly filament or well immune are cattle soon as long as it doesn't go against

reason doesn't go against divine so established sources of the Quran or Sunnah that are established and neither does it uproot a principle of Islam so that's the the kind of universal [Music] principles really to test this so I hope this makes sense I hope you give some clarity on saying well first of all what is the what was the motto secondly what was the army LaVon Medina the Molotov Ohira what about the extended animal or the secondary aspect of amyl that kind

of that leaned into each the hardly matters that the European from the Maliki accepted but yet is didn't and then the distinction between hadith was Sunna as acknowledged by the senior amounts of work like Abu Hanifa and Malik Rahim Allah and then going into the fact that how was the Quran transmitted so the Quran we don't look at the Quran the way we do as hadith so Quran was not documented bill is not although we have assigning for it but that's not how it was it was just ubiquitous and why the Quran was not an

ideal target for corruption why FERC had very little motivation for corruption and and hadith became the optimum target because it was the the it was a soft target so and we can look today to find the Sunna being we can look in Hadees primarily but we can also look in Turkey as well which is a a unbroken transmission of the tradition and understanding of this Deen from generation to generation right really technically till our age one could argue

I hope that's of some help in shop