The Scholars of Ahlul Hadeeth And Those Who Praised Them The Ahlul Hadeeth or the people of Hadeeth is an old ideology and nothing new and their leader is the Imaam and guide Muhammad (Sallalahu Alayhee Wassallam)) and this group based on this ideology has been around since the time of the companions as Allaamah Muhammad Idrees Khandelwi (Deobandi Hanafi) has accepted in his book ijtihaad wat-Taqleed and said the companions were Ahlul Hadeeth. Imaam Aamir bin Sharjeel Sha’abee is from the major tabieen and he met 500 companions (see Tahdheeb) and he was the student of 48 companions from whom he narrates (see Taareekh Baghdaad and Tahdheeb) he was born in approximately 31H and died in approximately 110H, so he is from the first and second century, he said, “Whatever I understand and command now if I knew from before then I would only narrate those hadeeth upon which the people of Hadeeth were unanimously agreed upon” (Tadhkirratul Huffaadh) This shows during the time of the companions and taabieen there was a group of people known as the Ahlul Hadeeth. Imaam Muhammad bin Muslim bin Shihaab az-Zuhree d.124H once went outside and said loudly “Oh people of Hadeeth where are you? Then he taught them 400 Hadeeth (Tadhkirratul Huffaadh). From the pillars of the Hanafi Madhab was Imaam Muhammad bin Hasan ash- Shaybaane d189H who says in his well known book of Muwatta (pg.363) “and so Ibn Shihaab was the most knowledgeable from amongst the people of Madeenah of the Ahlul Hadeeth”. Meaning Madeenah was a base of the Ahlul Hadeeth and why should they not be as the Messenger of Allah (Sallaalahu Alayhee Wassalam) spend the last 10 years of his Prophecy there where he established an Islamic state which was the best Ahlul Hadeeth state. The other pillar of the Hanafi Madhab, Qadhee Abu Yoosuf d.182H one day came out of his house and upon seeing the Ahlul Hadeeth said, “There is no one more better on this earth than you people because you listen and teach the Hadeeth of the Messenger of Allah (Sallaalahu Alayhee Wassalam). Imaam Hafs bin Ghiyaath d.194H said regarding the Ahlul Hadeeth, “You are the best (of the people) of this world” Abu Bakr bin A’ayyash d170H said concerning the Ahlul Hadeeth, “You are the best of mankind” (Ma’arifah Uloom al- Hadeeth of Imaam Haakim) The great scholar of language and syntax, Khaleel bin Ahmad al- Faraahaidee d107H said, “The Ahlul Hadeeth are the friends of Allah and if they are not then no one is the friend of Allah” The great jurist of his time Imaam Sufyaan Thawree d164H said, “The angels are the guardians of the sky and the Ahlul Hadeeth of the earth” meaning that is they who are the callers and preservers of the religion. He also said, “It is sufficient blessing for the Ahlul Hadeeth who write and read the salutations on the Messenger of Allah (Sallaalahu Alayhee Wassalam).” The famous Imaam Fudhayl Ibn A’ayaadh d.187H said upon seeing the Ahlul Hadeeth he would say, “Oh inheritors of the Prophets” The Khaleeph Haroon Rasheed d193H would say, “I found 4 traits in 4 groups, disbelief ie kufr in the jahmiyyah, theological rhetoric and argumentation in the mu’tazilah, lying in the Raafidah Shee’ah and the truth with the Ahlul Hadeeth” Imaam Muhaddith Abdullah Ibn Mubaarak d180H said, “on the day of judgement the Ahlul Hadeeth will be the most firm over the bridge (Siraat)” and when he would see young children writing Hadeeth he would say, “They are the seed of tree of the religion and no doubt they will grow one day” Imaam Hamaad bin Zaid d179H said the Ahlul Hadeeth are mentioned in the Quraan and he recited the following verse of the Quraan, “And it is not (proper) for the believers to go out to fight (Jihad) all together. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may get instructions in (Islamic) religion, and that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may beware (of evil).” (Soorah at —Taubah 9:122) Imaam Jarh Wat Ta’deel Yahyaa bin Saeed al-Qattan d198H would always benefit from the gathering of the Ahlul Hadeeth. All of these statements have been mentioned from Sharf Ashaabul Hadeeth of Imaam Khateeb al-Baghdaadee. So we find from the first and second century the companions, Tabi’een and Taba Tabi’een who were from the Ahlul Hadeeth.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 03:02:49 +0000