7. ON THE WORDS OF AL-QUSHAYRI REGARDING CONTENTMENT (RIDA)
7.1. THE MEANING OF CONTENTMENT (RIDA)
Shaykh al islam may allah have mercy on him was asked about the correctness of the statement of Shaykh Abu Sulayman as quoted Shaykh Qush- ayri in the Chapter of Contentment (rida): ‘Contentment when one does not ask Allah for Paradise nor seeks his protection from Hell.’
His answer, Allah have mercy on him, was as follows: The answer: All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Regarding this statement, two things should be looked at: Firstly: did the Shaykh really say this? And secondly: how correct is this statement?
With regard to the first, it should be noted that Ustadh Abu’l- Qasim did not mention the chain of narrators behind the statement when he related it from Shaykh Abu Sulayman. His attribution to the Shaykh is expedient (mursal). Abu’l-Qasim mentions the full chains of the reports from the Prophet, the Companions, the Tabi’in, the Shaykhs, and others in his Risalah at times, but there are also reports that are expedient (mursal). It is common for him to use the expression: ‘And it has been said.’
Furthermore, when he does mention the chains (isnad), they are sometimes sound (sahib), sometimes weak (da’if), and sometimes forged (‘mawdu).Some chains he keeps expedient (mursal),omitting the very first narrator from the chain. What we see here is much like what we find in the books of the jurists as they cater for all types of hadiths; the sound, weak, and the forged.
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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