Facsimile · p. 46
The most important statement regarding the issue of Imam Al-Mahdi.
The narrator states that he has heard from reliable sources, who in turn heard from reliable sources, what they have narrated and written. The narrator then read from the most authentic books after Sahih Al-Bukhari, namely Sahih Muslim. He then asked this narrator if it was possible to reconcile two narrations that appeared contradictory. If reconciliation was possible between the narrations in Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, even if the contradiction was glaring, and the narrator said that reconciliation between the two narrations was possible with great effort, then how could this be applied to the hadiths of the Fitna, which are even more so?
Do you want to subject the hadiths of the Fitna, which were narrated in secret, to the scrutiny of Al-Bukhari and Muslim? But how can this scrutiny be maintained when looking at the two most authentic books in the eyes of the Sunnah? And how can this scrutiny be maintained when it is heard from their ears?
Yes, the sons of Ibn Taymiyyah reject the Sunnah, but rather we narrate from the hadiths of the Sunnah more than they do, but we transcend them with realism, considering them as hadiths that have numbers. This is the narration of Abu Dharr, a narration whose narrator lived and narrated its details and specifics until the era of the Caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan, and people narrated it without any objection. Then Al-Bukhari and Muslim came, so how are the hadiths of the Fitna, which were narrated in secret and people narrated them while they were hesitant to narrate them?
The words of the scholars regarding the chain of transmission and the condition of the authenticity of the chain of transmission indicate that hadiths, by their nature, are transmitted from the mouth of the Messenger of God to the present day. Whoever has studied hadiths and has diligently studied them knows the accuracy of the narrators, and it becomes easy for him to deal with the authentic hadiths and to complete what is missing from the narrations of the authentic books.
"Indeed, the authentic books are the most comprehensive of the two."