format_quote Originally Posted by
doorster
I do not care who told you, prove it in open forum hadith by hdith or retract it.
I was told by a Hanafi brother, far more knowledgeable, that there is NO harm in usage of "weak" ahadees in those books since they are not about legislative matters but about spreading good,
however, there are "saheeh" ahadeeth out there being used on certain sites to issue fatwas many of which have made me cringe but I am not allowed to post about them,. but it always free season on harmless Hanafis, (but we are also not allowed to talk about their evil twin the deobandis.)
Your hatred of salafis shouldn't blind you to the issue of weak hadith.
There is ikhtilaf on the issue of weak hadith in righteous actions. Many scholars said it was ok to use weak hadith because they are encouraging good actions. But they made conditions. Ibn Hajar sets the following conditions:
1. That the hadith isn't fabricated (mawdu')
2. That the person that acts according to the hadith knows that it is weak
3. That it doesn't lead to widespread habits.
Others said it's not allowed because many weak hadith contain exaggerations and anyway, why would you want to know something that the Prophet (saw) probably didn't say?
But brother, before you start going on about Salafis and Hanafis you should calm down. We shouldn't be out to get each other because we're all Muslims. Imam Kandahlawi was a great scholar and a great man. He did a lot of amazing things. But that doesn't mean that everything he said was correct. We can say the same thing about someone like al-Albani. He was a great scholar and a great man, but he also made mistakes. So what? It doesn't mean they were bad Muslims because they made mistakes. In fact, they are rewarded for their mistakes, as the hadith says about the Qadi who does ijtihad and gets it right gets two rewards, and if he gets it wrong he gets one reward. So don't take things in such a negative way and don't get so upset.
Btw, I'm not a Hanafi or a Salafi.