بسم الله والحمد لله
والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد
So we see that just for the sake of sharing and keeping their pages & blogs buzzing & twittering, some people are posting anything and everything which THEY judge it to be authentic or correct. The real problem begins with the fact that a lot of them do not even post the reference.
A brother posts on his wall:
Quote: “…”
Scholar: XYZ
OK, we get it, that such-and-such scholar said such-and-such, but the name of the scholar is not a reference akhi/ukhti. The reference has to be a book (or if he is a contemporary scholar, than an audio or a video if there is one).
How in the world did you ever come to know what `Alee ibn Abee Taalib or Ibn `Abbaas رضي الله عنهما said or what Ibn Taymiyyah or Ibn al-Qayyim or Sufyaan al-Thawree said, whereas they died centuries ago?! You did not meet them nor did you hear from them. Akhi/ukhti, between you and them are the books.
And when you ask them for the reference, they will not be able to provide you one because regrettably they blindly did the “ctrl+c” & “ctrl+v” (copy paste) from someone else.
So you see, we need the reference to identify the authenticity, as well as to know that the Imaams are not being quoted out of context and that we are not attributing a lie on them by quoting that which they never said.
And Allaah’s help is sought from such foolishness.
