And then Ibn Bāz reminded King of an oath he made before his ascension, saying “On this occasion I would like to remind you of your promise to the council in your letter of 16/7/1401 (May, 1981) of the determination of the government to set up an Islamic financial agency.
Taken from ‘A Question of Interest: the Paralysis of Saudi Banking’ by P.W. Wilson (pp.186-188):
The Asharq Al-Awsat article was just SAMA’s [Saudi al-ʿArabīan Monetary Agency] opening parry…the agency again tried to question Islamic banking by allowing one of its employees, [X], to question the ulema’s stand on in…
And I believe in the obligation of submitting and being obedient to the Imāms of the Muslims, the dutiful of them as well as the wrong-doers of them, as long as they don’t order disobedience to Allāh, and the person who is responsible for Khilāfah; he whom the people have gathered around and accepted, and he who has forced his way to become Caliph as well, his obedience is obligatory and revolting against him is unlawful (ḥarām).
Some of the enemies of the Salafī Da‘wah have claimed that Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb broke away from the Ottoman Caliphate, and thus depart…
He is the Imām, the ḥāfiẓ (preserver of ḥadīth), the Scholar of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis), uṣūl (fundamentals of jurisprudence and law) and Fiqh (jurisprudence), Abū ʿAbdullāh Shamsud-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr – better known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (or Ibn al-Qayyim).
And if there were no virtues of Shaykh Taqiyy al-Dīn [Ibn Taymīyyah], except for his famous student Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah—the author of many works, which both his opponents and supporters benefited from—then this would be a sufficient indication of his […
The Imām, the Ḥadīth Master (Ḥāfiẓ), the Ḥanbalī Legal Jurist (Faqīh), the devout worshipper and ascetic. He was born in the year 304H in Ukbarā, a land close to Baghdād, and died in the year 387H. His father was a Faqīh and it was under his auspices that he began his studies and he often reports from him in his books. He was sent to Baghdād to study ḥadīth while still young, then he traveled to various lands such as Shām, Baṣrah, Makkah, and Thagur studying under a host of the leading scholars of his time and excelled in ʿaqīdah, ḥadīth and fiqh.
He heard from the likes of Abū al-Qāsim al-B…
The Imām, the Muḥaddith, the Example…. He was a scholar enacting what he taught, trustworthy and precise, possessing dīn, the follower of the Sunnah.
The Imām, the Scholar of Ḥadīth, the Example, the Shaykh of the Noble Haram, author of many beneficial works, truthful, the devout worshipper and the one who closely followed the Sunnah. He was born in Baghdād in the year 280H, later he moved to Makkah and died there in the year 360H after having lived there for some thirty years.
He heard from: Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Muḥammad ibn Yahyá al-Marwazī, Abū Shu`ayb al-Harrānī…
The great Imām and ʿĀlim (scholar), Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn was posed the following question:1
Question:
The Prophet (ﷺ) informed of the splitting of his Ummah after his death. We hope for an explanation of this from you.
Answer:
The Prophet (ﷺ) informed in what has been authenticated from him,
“The Jews will split up into seventy one sects, and the Christians into seventy two sects, and this Ummah will split into seventy three sects. And all of these groups are in the fire except one, and it is that which is in agreement with what the prophet (ﷺ) and his companions were upon.”2
Pro…
The following is a biographical account of the life of the Imām of al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, al-’Allāmah Rabīʿ Ibn Hādī ʿUmayr al-Madkhalī – hafiẓahullāh. The lecture also contains a refutation upon the people who try to find fault with the Shaykh, like Abū Muflisah al-Ḥizbī and others.
He was born in 1349 H / 1927 C.E. as indicated in his official papers.The Shaykh was raised in a village by the name of Tughaa Taab in Habashah where he studied the Noble Qurʾān. After he completed this, he began studying the books of Fiqh of the al-Shāfiʿī madh′hab. He also studied Arabic in the village with Shaykh Muḥammad Amīn al-Huraree. He then left the village for another, where he met with another student, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Karīm, with whom he later made ḥijrah to Saudi al-ʿArabīa. They both then proceeded to Shaykh Moosa and studied under him ((Nuthum al-Zuhd)) of Ibn Raslān. They then…
This lecture covers a large portion of the life of Imām Aḥmad, especially as it relates to his trial that he undertook concerning the fitnah of the creation of the Qurʾān. There is also a warning against some of the false claimants to Salafīyyah towards the end of the tape. A heart-felt talk that will increases one’s īmān in shāʾ Allāh.
