(Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah) (6036)

Second Note:

A few days after writing the foregoing, one of my brothers showed me an important book entitled Fath min al-ʿAzīz al-Ghaffār bi-Ithbāt anna Tārik al-Ṣalāh Laysa min al-Kuffār (A Gift from the Almighty, the All-Forgiving, Establishing that Whoever Abandons the Ritual Prayer Is Not an Unbeliever) by ʿAṭāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Aḥmad. I was delighted, and my joy grew as I read it and leafed through some of its chapters. It became clear to me that he employs a truly scholarly method in handling the various proofs—foremost among them the critical study of hadiths: tracing their chains and corroborating routes, distinguishing the authentic from the weak, and then eliminating what is too feeble to be used while relying on what is sound, whether as evidence or as a point to be answered.

This is exactly what our brother the author—may Allah reward him well—has done, unlike certain writers who indiscriminately pile up every report that supports their view without first verifying its authenticity, just as some Saudi, Egyptian, and other authors did when they took issue with me over the question of a woman’s face.

Our brother ʿAṭāʾ, by contrast, has followed a rigorously scholarly approach in his rebuttal. ⦗63⦘