wow - ustadh i advise you to ignore the social media drama and keep producing gems like this

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Overall, the lecture was balanced. I appreciate the attempt to be objective during the main part of the lecture. Unfortunately, a few statements were made at the end which were problematic. Imam Malik was known for staying in Madinah. I'm pretty sure he travelled less than Abu Hanifa. Also, the speaker repeated the same silly claim that many hadith biased people have stated about Abu Hanifa - that he is weak in hadith. This stems from people not knowing Hanafi usul. There are several usul based reasons why Hanafi rulings differ from the opinions of other schools on some issues. One of the major reasons is that in the Hanafi school, a solitary hadith can't restrict the meaning of a mutawattir text, such as the Quran or a mutawattir hadith. This results in the Hanafi school not relying on solitary hadiths that some of the other schools rely on. This is why, to give one example, the Hanafis say prayer is valid without reciting the Fatiha, because the hadith that says there is no prayer without the Fatiha isn't mutawattir. And there is a Quranic ayah that says, "Recite what is easy for your from the Quran." The mutawattir Quran is a stronger evidence than a solitary hadith. So while the Hanafi school says we should recite the fatiha because of the hadith, and it is sinful not to recite it, they also say that the fatiha isn't a pillar of the prayer, because the Quran tells us we can recite whatever is easy for us, which has been interpreted to mean at least one ayah of Quran. This is a brief example of how Hanafis deal with hadiths differently than some of the other schools. They know the hadith, they just weigh it differently. So to say Abu Hanifa was unaware of the hadiths on the topic is a lie. If you look in the Hanafi texts, the hadiths that critics of the school claim Abu Hanifa didn't know are dealt with. The speaker in the video openly admitted he didn't know much about the Hanafi school, and he only studied one text, Mukhatasar al-Qudoori (and I'm skeptical that he studied it thoroughly, cover to cover), so it is no surprise that he is ignorant of many of these facts. This requires a deeper study of the school to understand properly, something he hasn't taken the time to do. And the Hanafi school has a distinct method for authenticating hadiths that is different from the Shafi'i methodology popularized in mustalaha al-hadith texts such as al-Bayquniyya and Nukhbatul Fikr. This is another reason for the difference of opinion that you sometimes see when comparing the Hanafi school to others. In summary, Abu Hanifa knew the relevant hadiths that serve as the basis for fiqh rulings, however, he often dealt with them differently than the other madhabs. This slander that he was weak in hadith is an ahl al-Hadith bias that came about largely due to people not understanding Hanafi usul. If you study Hanafi fiqh and usul in more depth, you will see how they address all of the hadiths that critics claim they are ignorant of.

Always amazed at his recollection of books and their authors in multitudes

Beautiful lecture May Allah bless u ya ustadh.

ibnu Zooootaaaaaaa! In all serious Jazakallah khair sheikh .. this is so beneficial!

very intensive for me. enjoyed the ending. nice and relaxed

May Allah bless you, ustadh, Jazak-Allahu khair

بارك الله فيك شيخ جزاك الله خيرا

An entire lecture of praising the imam and all people can see is the dhaeef part. Really sad. Maybe ustadh didn't word it the way you wanted it that doesn't make this speech any less good

All those who criticized Imam Abu Hanifa came after him. What did his contemporaries say about him? Was he muhadith? Was he a pharmacist who store medicine or was a doctor who has very few medications but knew what every medicine could treat?

Assalamu alaykoem wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh is there a way to contact ustadh abdurrahman hassan barrakallahufikoem

Mashallah great talk. Just one point, Ustaad you mentioned Imam Abu Hanifa Rahimullah was weak in Hadith. However, mine and your understanding of someone being 'weak' in hadith is very different from what the Masters of hadith in the salaf termed as 'weak'. Your failure to define this and to clarify this point is to do injustice to the Imam. Many of the Salafi brothers, swear at Imam Abu Hanifa and falsely claim he only new 5 hadith. Hence after your excellent talk, i'm sad to see that you didn't clarify this point.

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ، Three from The Salaf that prayed all night: .Abu Rayhaan رضي الله عنه .Ajradah Al-Amiyyah رحمها الله تعالى .The Servant Of Ali Ibn Bakkaar رحمهما الله تعالى (Might be much more والله اعلم)

Asalaamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuhu ustadh. You mentioned you have covered sharh us sunnah muzani... where can I find these videos as I'm trying to complete the 10 books in the 10 classes you told us to master. Thanks

Slm I will request the Sheikh to take this statement back that Abu Hanifa was dhaeef in Hadith. I can accept if he said that hadith was not what he engaged with like how say Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanba didl. However he was a thiqa. You can read alilal al-sagheer of Imam Tirmizi where Imam Tirmizi quotes Imam Abu Hanifa to tadheef of a person. If he himself was not a thiqa and week in hadith why would he quote him as ref. The reality is Abu Hanifa was too strict in narrating hadith therefore we have very few ahadith narrated from him. You might not list him as a muhaddith as you would list Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal but you cannot say he was dhaeef in hadith. If he engaged with hadith and he made mistakes then what the sheikh said would be correct.

هل الكتاب السير بفتح السين وسكون الياء او بكسر السين وفتح الياء؟

Why don’t followers of imam Abu hanifa do raful dain

This brother is not qualify to do class on madhab he is strongly against or knows about. Abu hanafi was not weak in Hadith, people knew more Hadith like imam Maliki. Giving the time of Kufa Hadith was fabricated that’s why his madhab take Hadith differently than the other madhab. There is many other reason as well

Imams including imam bukhari never condemned people who followed imams

If we are wrong why you pray behind us. Don't try to confuse the ignorant people. Even imam Muslim and many others follow imam

so whats the purpose of these, to teach the students about the madhahib so they can pull people away from them to the "haqq" of salafiyyah???? seems like thats whats up