IMAM NAWAWI'S (RAHMAT ALLAHI 'ALAIH) COMMENTARY:

IMAM NAWAWI'S (RAHMAT
ALLAHI 'ALAIH) COMMENTARY:

The answer is in two
beautiful ways: 

1. The two Imams, Abu
Bakr ibn Abi `Asim and Abu Musa al-Asbahani (may Allah be pleased
with them),said that this is a weak Hadith which cannot be used
as a proof. Abu Bakr (rahmat allahi 'alaih) said: "This Hadith
cannot be established and its sub-narrators are unknown." I
say: to this is added the fact that it is "mudtarib" (disordered
-- see above), and it would suffice that only one of these two factors
were present to grade it as weak, let alone two. 

2. The Hadith in itself
is crystal-clear as to its intent as opposed to that of the rest:
namely, it PURPORTS TO CONDEMN THOSE WHO STAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF
AGGRANDIZEMENT. That is why he said: "Do not get up in the
manner of the foreigners who aggrandize each others." There
is no doubt as to what is being condemned. And Allah knows best.

Our comments: The emphasis
of this Hadith is in the words, "in the manner of the foreigners
who aggrandize (flatter) each other". If the directive of the
Prophet (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) was to forbid standing (Qiyaam),
the words "Do not get up !" would have sufficed. There
would have been no reason to qualify the statement with the words,
"... in the manner of the foreigners who aggrandize (flatter)
each other". The disbelieving foreigners (especially the Persians)
would stand up for their undeserving kings and leaders in order
to flatter their ego. It is this that the above Hadith condemns.

4. From (Nafi`) Abu
Bakra (radi allahu 'anhu): The Prophet (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam)
said: "Let no man stand from his seat for another." Abu
Musa al-Isbahani narrated it with his chain. Al-Hafiz Abu al-Qasim
Ibn `Asakir said in his book al-Atraf that Abu Dawud narrated in
the book of Adab (4:258). The chain has Abu `Abd Allah Mawla Al
Abi Burda, who is unknown. See al-Taqrib #8215.

IMAM NAWAWI'S (RAHMAT
ALLAHI 'ALAIH) COMMENTARY:

The answer to this
is the same two answers as the preceding section... There is possibly
a third way to answer it reasonably. The meaning would be: "Do
not get up from the place of prayer, of listening to a sermon and
to remembrance and knowledge etc., for it is disliked that one should
give up one's seat in such cases, or leave it and take another farther
away from the Imam.

The same is true of all gestures that are similar to these, and
we consider this to muster the general agreement of scholars, as
opposed to giving up one's food and drink other things related to
one's personal lot: to give those up is a most desirable thing,
one of the marks of the righteous and among the manners of saints
and gnostics, concerning which this verse was revealed: "They
prefer others above themselves though poverty become their lot"
(59:9).

The difference between
the two types of sacrifice is that the right, in the person's nearness,
belongs to Allah the Exalted, and to transfer it is not permissible,
as opposed to food and the like where the right belongs to the person,
although in some cases it belongs to Allah even then...

Our Comments : This
Hadith has nothing to do with standing out of respect (Qiyaam).
Below is the Hadith in question that is often quoted : Sa'id bin
Abi al-Hasan said : When Abu Bakrah came to us to give some evidence,
a man got up from his place, but he refused to sit in it saying:
The Prophet (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) forbade this, ... (Sunan
Abu Dawood, Pg 1349, Volume 3, # 4809). As it is seen this Hadith
has nothing to do with the subject matter. It is concerned with
giving your seat to another person.

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