Friday 1 July 2011

Everything is Halal until proven Haram

كتاب من لا يحضره الفقيه — الجزء الاول
للشيخ الجليل الاقدم الصدوق أبى جعفر محمد بن على بن الحسين بن بابويه القمى
المتوفى سنة


Man la Yahdhuruhul Faqih by Shaikh Sadooq (RA) (381 AH), Volume 1

937 - عن الصادق عليه السلام أنه قال :  كل شئ مطلق حتى يرد فيه نهي

937- From Imam al Sadiq(as) who said "Everything is unrestricted until a prohibition is given on it."



وسائل الشيعة (آل البيت) للحر العاملي (1104 هـ) الجزء6 صفحة289

 

Wasail al Shia by Shaikh Hurr al Amili (1104 AH) Volume 6 Page 289

 

[ 7997 ] 3- قال : وقال الصادق ( عليه السلام ) : كلّ شيء مطلق حتّى يرد فيه نهي


 [7997] 3- He said: Imam al Sadiq(as) said: "Everything is unrestricted until a prohibition is given on it."



كتاب الاعتقادات مؤلف الشيخ محمد بن علي بن بابويه القمي الصدوق

 Al 'Iteqadat by Shaikh Sadooq (ra)

باب الاعتقاد في الحظر والإباحة

Section on the belief in the prohibition and permissibility.

قال الشيخ ـ رضي الله عنه ـ : اعتقادنا في ذلك أن الأشياء كلها مطلقة حتى يرد في شيء منها نهي

The Shaikh (Shaikh Sadooq) (ra) said: "Our belief in that is that the things, all of them, are unrestricted till there is given on a thing from them a prohibition."

6 comments:

  1. Is this a mursal hadith? Or it has a chain (sanad)?

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    1. It's mursal, without sanad, and only Shaikh Sadooq has narrated it (Ayt Muhammad as-Sanad researched these issues in his lecture: https://www.eshia.ir/feqh/archive/text/sanad/osool/35/360115/). If it helps, there's a sahih* hadith "Anything that has possibility of being either halal or haram, is always halal for you, until you come to know that it is specifically haram; and then leave [doing] it".
      *Based on Ayt Rumayti's grading: صحيحة عبد الله بن سنان عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السّلام) قال: «كلّ شيء فيه حلال وحرام فهو لك حلال أبداً حتى تعلم الحرام منه بعينه فتدعه
      http://www.al-roumayte.com/print.php?id=1047#_edn2

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  2. I am impressed with your breadth of knowledge. The sahih hadith you mentioned, which of our imami hadith collections is it mentioned in? Thank you.

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    1. Thanks :) , the earliest imami hadith book source for it seems to be Hasan b. Mahboob's Mashyakhah. Ibn Idris al Hilli quoted it in his Mustatrafat directly from Ibn Mahboob's Mashayakhah (without sanad to ibn Mahboob). Shaikh Kulayni (in Kafi) and Tusi (in Tahdheeb) quoted it with sanad to ibn Mahboob. FWIW though, the primary narrator Abdullah b. Sinan was the treasurer of multiple Abbasid caliphs, so there is a chance that he narrated his interpretation (which could have been influenced by his livelihood) of what he heard from Imam, instead of narrating word by word; because other ahadith by other narrators on this topic of halal/haram are specific to consumption of suspicious/unknown food items only, this hadith is one of the few/couple that is unconditional.

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    2. I didn't know this hadith exists in Al Kafi. I can look it up, but if you know please tell me the volume/chapter so I can find it more easily. Thank you again.

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