i was reading volume 22 of fatawa ridwiya which has 5 or 6 risalahs of imam ahmad rida.
lam'atud duha (beard) is one
az zubtaduz zakiya (prostration of respect) is another
the one i read was about shaking hands with both hands, cant remember the name.
great read. the ghayr muqallideen shake hands with one hand only.
imam ahmad rida then gives examples where ahadith mention "yad" (one hand) but obvioiusly cant be taken literally. for example, a hadith may mention the singular tense but it just means that if doing an action once or with one limb, the reward is so much, imagine the reward of doing it more than once or with two limbs.
many examples were given from the hadith.
then the hadith of ibn masud was mentioned where Rasoolullah sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam taught him the tashahhud and shook hands with both hands.
then the fiqhi writings such as shaami etc.
then a look at the fact that not all ahadith have been preserved. imam bukhari knew 600,000 ahadith but only 4000 are in is sahih. imam muslim knew 300,000 but only few thousand in his sahih. imam ahmad bin hanbal knew 1 million but only i think 40,000 in musnad.
so ahadith which did not get to imam bukhari etc does not mean they didnt exist. abu hurayra has narrated 5300 hadith but he himself said another sahabi knew more because he used to write them, i didnt. but in the books of ahadith, the other sahabi only has 100 narrations or so, so where did the other 5000 go? imam ahmad ridas point was that not all ahadith got to the muhadditheen.
if i remember more, i will add.
but a wonderful piece of research (like all his works)
lam'atud duha (beard) is one
az zubtaduz zakiya (prostration of respect) is another
the one i read was about shaking hands with both hands, cant remember the name.
great read. the ghayr muqallideen shake hands with one hand only.
imam ahmad rida then gives examples where ahadith mention "yad" (one hand) but obvioiusly cant be taken literally. for example, a hadith may mention the singular tense but it just means that if doing an action once or with one limb, the reward is so much, imagine the reward of doing it more than once or with two limbs.
many examples were given from the hadith.
then the hadith of ibn masud was mentioned where Rasoolullah sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam taught him the tashahhud and shook hands with both hands.
then the fiqhi writings such as shaami etc.
then a look at the fact that not all ahadith have been preserved. imam bukhari knew 600,000 ahadith but only 4000 are in is sahih. imam muslim knew 300,000 but only few thousand in his sahih. imam ahmad bin hanbal knew 1 million but only i think 40,000 in musnad.
so ahadith which did not get to imam bukhari etc does not mean they didnt exist. abu hurayra has narrated 5300 hadith but he himself said another sahabi knew more because he used to write them, i didnt. but in the books of ahadith, the other sahabi only has 100 narrations or so, so where did the other 5000 go? imam ahmad ridas point was that not all ahadith got to the muhadditheen.
if i remember more, i will add.
but a wonderful piece of research (like all his works)
