Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Therefore, the ummah has been ordered that a group of people dedicate
themselves to this important facet. Hence Allah E says:
وَ‏ لْتَكُ‏ نْ‏ مِّ‏ نْكُ‏ مْ‏ أُماَّ‏ ةٌ‏ يَدْ‏ عُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ إِلَى الْخَ‏ يْرِ‏ وَ‏ يَأْمُ‏ رُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ بِالْمَ‏ عْ‏ رُ‏ وْ‏ فِ‏ وَ‏ يَنْهَ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ عَ‏ نِ‏ الْمُ‏ نْكَ‏ رِۚ‏ وَأُولٰئِكَ‏ هُمُ‏
الْمُ‏ فْ‏ لِحُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏
And let there be from you a nation inviting to good, enjoining what is right and
forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful. 1
Once it is understood that enjoining good and forbidding evil is the responsibility
of every capable person in case of no one else carrying it out, it should be borne
in mind that the responsibility of the scholars is even greater, due to them being
tasked with the responsibility of conveying and elucidating. Allah E says:
لَتُبَيِّنُناَّهُ‏ لِلناَّاسِ‏ وَ‏ لَ‏ تَكْ‏ تُمُ‏ وْ‏ نَهُ‏
You must make it clear to the people and not conceal it. 2
Likewise, Rasūl Allah H has stated the following to be the duty of the
scholars:
يحمل هذا العلم من خلف عدوله،‏ ينفون عنه تحريف الغالين،‏ وانتحال المبطلين وتأول الجاهلين
The pious of every generation will bear this knowledge from their
predecessors. They will remove from it the distortions of the extremists, the
false claims of the wrong doers, and the interpretations of the ignorant. 3
1 Sūrah Ᾱl ʿImrān: 104.
2 Sūrah Āl ʿImrān: 187.
3 The ḥadīth of Abū Umāmah, Abū Hurayrah, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar which appears in: al-ʿUqaylī:
al-Ḍuʿafāʾ 1/9. The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah also appears in: al-Ṭabarānī: Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn: ḥadīth
no. 599. Likewise the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar appears in the Fawāʾid of Tammām: ḥadīth no. 899. And al-
Bayhaqī has reported the Mursal report of Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿUdhrī in his Sunan: ḥadīth
no. 20700. The scholars have debated its authenticity. Amongst those who have deemed it Ṣaḥīḥ are:
Imām Aḥmad, as appears in al-Badr al-Munīr 1/259; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, as appears in al-Bidāyah wa al-
Nihāyah 10/337; al-Albānī in his work on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ: ḥadīth no. 248. continued ...
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