Indeed the Companions and the tābiʿīn, and those who followed them, and the scholars of the Sunnah were gathered and in agreement about this, about attacking (in refutation) the people of innovation and making hijrah from them.
If one were to research the styles of writing that these people employ and what they present as facts in one place when it suits their purposes, and the total opposite in another place when it suits their purposes, he would find it to be very devious and misleading.
[The following is a post that was produced by a brother, in response to the articles posted by ASFA claiming that Shaykh al Islām Ibn Taymīyyah supported some Ṣūfī practices.]
Alhamdulillāh was ṣalātu was salāmu ʿalá nabiyyinaa wa habeeibnaa muhammad
As salāmu ʿalaykum
Here we go again….
Earlier this year one of the Naqshba…
A collection of statements from the Scholars, past and present, concerning the infamous work of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī: Ihyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. A work filled with lies upon the Messenger of Allāh and distortions of the true Religion of Allāh the Glorified and Exalted.
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Translation by Abū al-Ḥasan Dāwūd al-Briṭānī
The Muʿtazilah and whoever followed them from later generations, for example Shaykh Muḥammad Abduh, Maḥmūd Shaltūt, Aḥmad Shalbī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿUthmān, amongst others.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīnInformation related to the Religion (al-khabar), is categorized in accordance to the manner in which it has reached us. There are two categories:
[1]: al-Mutawaatir (recurrent): that which has been narrated from one group to another. Convention dictates: it is impossible that they would act in collusion upon a lie, from the beginning of the chain of narration to the end.
[2]: al-Āh…
Likewise, the Messenger (ﷺ) used to believe his Companions in what they informed him of, and likewise, the Companions used to believe each other with regards to what they would narrate from Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ).
Shaykh ʿUthmān ʿAlī Ḥasan
Does the Āhād Narration Amount to Knowledge?
In this issue there are three opinions:
[i] That the āhād (singular) narration amounts to knowledge absolutely and unrestrictedly.
[ii] That it amounts to knowledge with certain conditions.
[iii] That it does not amount to knowledge at all.
The First Opinion
With regards to the first position: which…
The Ḥadīth is honour. Whoever wants the world for it will get the world, and whoever wants the Hereafter by it will get the Hereafter.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
The Virtues of Ḥadīth
[1] From ʿAbdullāh Ibn ʿUmar Ibn al-‘Ās who said that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said:
“Relate from me even if it is one āyah and report from the Children of Isrāʿīl and there is no problem. And whoever lies upon me, then let him take his seat in the Fire.”2
[2] ʿAbdullāh Ibn al Mubārak said: “The isnād (chain of narrators for ḥadīth) is from the Religion.”
Through another chain of narrator…
May Allāh brighten the man who heard a ḥadīth from us, memorized it and then conveys it just as he heard it, for perhaps the one who carries fiqh is not a faqīh (one who understands), and perhaps he passes it on with the fiqh to one who is better than him in understanding.
Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād
Whosoever learns knowledge by which is to be sought the Face of Allāh, but he does not do so except to acquire the goal of this world, he will not smell the odour of Paradise upon the Day of Resurrection.
The Miser and the Fortunate One
Abū Hurayrah (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) relates that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “That person is a miser who, when I am mentioned to him, does not send ṣalāt upon me.”1
Anas Ibn Mālik (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu) said that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “Whosoever sends ṣalāt upon me once. Allāh will send ṣalāt upon him ten times, omit from him ten evils…
