with principles which are principles from Ahlul-Hadith.
Shaykh Rabee comes to the statement ‘Saalih Al-Hadith’ by Imam Ahmad and drops with it the declaration of being Thiqqah by those made the declaration, who preceded him in this?
Imam Adh-Dhahabi, stated that the word ‘Saalih’ if its comes together with a declaration of being Thiqqah, that it means that this person is Thiqqah but not of a high level in this. And this was stated by Imam Ibn Qattaan Al-Faasi.
Shaykh Rabee rejects this, so who do we take from? You're the one saying that the most knowledgeable is to be taken, so who do we take from? Who is more knowledgeable Shaykh Rabee or Adh-Dhahabi? Who is more knowledgeable Imam Ibn Qattaan Al-Faasi the author of Al-Wahm Al-Iyhaam, that Imam that expert, is he more knowledgeable or Shaykh Rabee?
I came to Shaykh Rabee with the speech of Imam Ahmad in roughly thirty biographies, saying regarding a narrator in one place ‘Thiqqah’ and in another ‘Saalih Al-Hadith’, this points to that the word ‘Saalih Al-Hadith’ if it comes together with a declaration of being Thiqqah, then it doesn't nullify it, but it means that this narrator is not of a high level of being Thiqqah - and this is what we have said regarding Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz, as the Imams have said.
Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz is Thiqqah but the level of Thiqqah differs, from those that are Thiqqah are like Imam Shu'bah, and from those that are Thiqqah are like Hamaad bin Salamah, and there are many levels of difference between Shu'bah and Hamaad in memorisation, and this affair i.e this difference between the two, doesn't take him out of being Thiqqah.
Likewise Shaykh Rabee came with an affair he used to rebuke, and he rebuked what he used to do, he said “Ibn Ma'een if he says about a person ‘La ba'sa bihi’ then this is with him of the level of Thiqqah”, then he said rebuked this in the biography of Ibn Al-Ghaaz, and said that what was said about him was ‘La ba'sa bihi’ and that this isn't a declaration of being Thiqqah, and we relayed from his own speech what rebukes this, so this is Shaykh Rabee refuting Shaykh Rabee, rather Shaykh Rabee himself declared Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz as Thiqqah but now he declared him as Da'eef, when the Fitnah of Al-Adani came Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz became Da'eef, rather he came what the early ones didn't come with and said that “Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz is under the feet!”. Saalih Ash-Shijari witnessed this from him, who is the leader of the front in Kitaaf, that he advised Shaykh Rabee on the topic of Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz and then Shaykh Rabee said “Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz is under the feet” or “Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz is with the Salaf under the feet!”, who preceded him in this? Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz is an Imam, how do you place him under the feet when he took knowledge from the Salaf?! And he is from the scholars of the Salaf!
And he also said, as found in his refutations, that Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz took this Hadith from the Raafidah and that this Hadith has infiltrated externally and other than this, who preceded him in that Hishaam bin Al-Ghaaz took from the Raafidah?!
These affairs, I didn't bring anything from my pocket, for this reason Shaykh Rabee couldn't remain firm in the refutations, and this is a reality and the affair is not an affair of being old in age, we are not playing football for one to be bigger in experience, the affair is the Book and the Sunnah, whoever utters with it and produces the proofs from the Book and the Sunnah and the statements of the Salaf and the statements of Imams, it's this one whose statements are taken, and they are the ones that are big - even if they are little in age.
And this is stated to be an unanimous agreement, as Imam Ibn Rajab stated in his treatise “Al-Farq baynan-Naseehah wat-Ta'yeer”, he mentioned that the Salaf wouldn't make a difference between the big and the little if they produced evidences, and they don't prevent the little if they spoke with evidences, and they accept their speech.
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