I would be very grateful if any student of knowledge or anyone could shed some light on this hadith
baarakallaahu feekum
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The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) sent Muadh (radiallaahu anhu) to Yemen and asked him: "How will you judge the cases (that come to you)?" He replied: "I will judge according to the Book of Allaah". "But if you do not get anything there, what will you do?", the Prophet (sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam) asked. He said: "I will refer to the sunnah of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)". "But if you do not get it even there, what will you do?", the Prophet (sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam) asked again. He replied: "I will exercise my judgment."Hearing this the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) patted Muadh (radiallahu anhu) on the shoulder and said: "Praise be to Allah who has guided the Messenger of His Messenger to what pleases His Messenger."
ام رزقين روسينه
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و كل خير في اتباع من سلف
و كل شر في ابتداع من خلف
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In addition to this, Shaykh an-Najjaatee said this hadeeth gives the ruler a method of three stages which disallows searching for any rule with regard to personal views or opinions with the exception that he does locate it in the Sunnah and if not in the Sunnah, except that after that he does not find it in the Book of Allaah.
Then the Shaykh explained how this is a incorrect method of deriving rulings and that it is essential to search for a ruling in Sunnah, even if he thinks it is found in The Qur'aan as we have mentioned it. Sunnah is not with The Qur'aan in the same manner as personal opinion with the Sunnah.
And that it is absolutely a requirement to regard the Book of Allaah and Pure Sunnah as being one source with no distinction between the two whatsoever with regard to legislation.
And the proof the Shaykh used for this is in an authentic hadeeth of the Prophet sallallaahu alayhe wa sallam: "Indeed I have come with the Qur'aan and something similar to it" ie. the Sunnah and that they will never be separated until they reach to the Pool.
Dawud Adib the son of David C.White Sr.
وقال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية :" الراد على أهل البدع مجاهد"
As-Salaamu Alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu! Sheikh Naasirud-Deen Al-Albaani [rahimahullah] mentions that ,this narration is not authentic. Check the Da'eef of Aboo Dawood pg. 354. hadeeth number 880-3592 also collected by tirmidhi[1350] and mishkat al masaabeeh [3737]. Hope this helps.
فمن كان يريد حقا الرجوع الى الكتاب والسنة, فليزمه الرجوع الى ما كان عليه أصحاب النبي عليه السلام و التابعين و أتباعهم من بعدهم
As-Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu,
Just a quick sidenote,for those who may not know, what our brother in Islaam Abu Tasneem [hafidhahullah] just mentioned above concerning our Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Nuh An-Najaatee [rahimahullah] who is well known to all of us as Sheikh Muhammad Naasirud-Deen Al-Albaani.
فمن كان يريد حقا الرجوع الى الكتاب والسنة, فليزمه الرجوع الى ما كان عليه أصحاب النبي عليه السلام و التابعين و أتباعهم من بعدهم