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2167. Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed Allāh will not gather my Ummah" – or he said: "[Muḥammad's] Ummah upon deviation, and Allāh's Hand is over the Jamā'ah, and whoever deviates, he deviates to the Fire." (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadith is Gharib from this route. In my view, Sulaimān Al-Madanī is Sulaimān bin Sufyān – there is something on this topic from Ibn 'Abbās – and Abū Dāwud Aṭ-Ṭayālīsī, Abū 'Āmir Al-'Aqadī and more than one of the people of knowledge reported from him (Sulaimān bin Sufyān).
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The explanation of the Jamā'ah, according to the people of knowledge, is the people of Fiqh, knowledge, and Hadith. He said: "I heard Al-Jārūd bin Mu'ādḥ saying: 'I heard 'Alī bin Al-Ḥasan saying: "I asked 'Abdullāh bin Al-Mubārak: 'Who is the Jamā'ah?' So he said: 'Abū Bakr and 'Umar.' It was said to him: 'Abū Bakr and 'Umar have died.' He said: 'So-and-so.' It was said to him: 'So-and-so, and so-and-so have died.' So 'Abdullāh bin Al-Mubārak said: 'Abū Ḥamzah As-Sukkarī is a Jamā'ah'"
[Abū 'Eisā said:] Abū Ḥamzah is Muḥammad bin Maimūn, he was a righteous Shaikh, and he only said this about during his life, according to us.
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Allāh has commanded that those ill-educated or ignorant in religious matters seek guidance from those who are well-read in the Qur'ān and Sunnah and related sciences. This by implication means that the people of knowledge in their totality will not unite on a wrong premise. The Hadīth, therefore, confirms that any opinion on which the entire community of scholars of an age are agreed would not be misguided or deviant, and it clarifies the meaning of the Jamā'ah.
