Maalik b. Anas (d. 179H) rahimahullaah said:
“The Sunnah is (like) the Ark of Noah, whoever embarks upon it will be saved and whoever holds back from it will drown.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Taareekh Baghdad (7/336), Taareekh ad-Damishq (14/9), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Miftaahul-Jannah (p.76).
“The Sunnah is (like) the Ark of Noah, whoever embarks upon it will be saved and whoever holds back from it will drown.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Taareekh Baghdad (7/336), Taareekh ad-Damishq (14/9), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Miftaahul-Jannah (p.76).
They Want Us To Abandon The Manhaj Of The Salaf
From A Khutbah by Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzaan Hafidhahullaah
Nowadays, these people who betray and forsake the Manhaj of the Salaf, in the newspapers, magazines and other writings belittle the Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah, the real and true Salafis, they belittle them (by saying) that they are harsh, they are Takfirees, and they are and they are.
But this does not harm (the people of the Sunnah), rather, it only affects a person who does not have patience and firm resolve, it may affect such as him.
From them are those who say: Who are the Salaf (the pious predecessors)? They are just a Taa'ifah (group of people) like any other people, they are a Firqah (sect) just like the other sects, a Hizb (party-spirited group) like the rest of the partisan groups. What distinction and privilege do they have? This is how some of them speak. (He says) the Salaf (the pious predecessors) do not have any distinction and privilege, they are just a sect and a group like the rest of the sects or parties. What he wants with that is to make us lose our grip (i.e. turn us away and divert us) from the Manhaj of the Salaf.
Some of them say that we are not duty-bound by the knowledge and understanding of the Salaf. We are not duty-bound, we will cleave and carve our own path, ourselves. We will deduce and extract our own rulings and verdicts from new. We will create and make up a new Fiqh for ourselves, this is an ancient Fiqh, the Fiqh of the Salaf (predecessors) is an ancient one. And they say that it is not suitable and appropriate for this time, (although) it was suitable for their time, (but) our time is different.
So they renounce and forsake the Fiqh (understanding and jurisprudence) of the Salaf, and they call for a new Fiqh. This (call) is widespread in the newspapers and magazines from the different writers and people of misguidance.
They want the Manhaj (methodology) of the Salaf to slip out of our hands (i.e. divert and turn us away from it), that is because if we do not know the Manhaj of the Salaf, then we will renounce and forsake it, and we will not study it. For indeed it is not sufficient that a person affiliates to the Salaf (predecessors) without him having any knowledge and without (gaining) insight into his Madhhab (way). This is what they want from him.
They want us to abandon the way of the Salaf, the Fiqh of the Salaf and the knowledge of the Salaf. And that we invent a new Fiqh, as they say, which is suitable for this time (of ours). Whilst all of that is a fabrication and a lie, and the Sharee’ah (Legislation) of Islaam is suitable for every time and every place until the establishment of the Last Hour.
So the Manhaj of the Salaf is suitable for all times and all places, it is a Noor (light) from Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, do not let the speech of the Mukhaddileen (the betrayers) or the people of misguidance make you neglect and renounce it.
Translation by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree.
Reference: Manhaj Salafus-Saaleh wa Haajatul-Ummah ilayhi, A Khutbah by Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzaan www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/ar/node/15030
From A Khutbah by Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzaan Hafidhahullaah
Nowadays, these people who betray and forsake the Manhaj of the Salaf, in the newspapers, magazines and other writings belittle the Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah, the real and true Salafis, they belittle them (by saying) that they are harsh, they are Takfirees, and they are and they are.
But this does not harm (the people of the Sunnah), rather, it only affects a person who does not have patience and firm resolve, it may affect such as him.
From them are those who say: Who are the Salaf (the pious predecessors)? They are just a Taa'ifah (group of people) like any other people, they are a Firqah (sect) just like the other sects, a Hizb (party-spirited group) like the rest of the partisan groups. What distinction and privilege do they have? This is how some of them speak. (He says) the Salaf (the pious predecessors) do not have any distinction and privilege, they are just a sect and a group like the rest of the sects or parties. What he wants with that is to make us lose our grip (i.e. turn us away and divert us) from the Manhaj of the Salaf.
Some of them say that we are not duty-bound by the knowledge and understanding of the Salaf. We are not duty-bound, we will cleave and carve our own path, ourselves. We will deduce and extract our own rulings and verdicts from new. We will create and make up a new Fiqh for ourselves, this is an ancient Fiqh, the Fiqh of the Salaf (predecessors) is an ancient one. And they say that it is not suitable and appropriate for this time, (although) it was suitable for their time, (but) our time is different.
So they renounce and forsake the Fiqh (understanding and jurisprudence) of the Salaf, and they call for a new Fiqh. This (call) is widespread in the newspapers and magazines from the different writers and people of misguidance.
They want the Manhaj (methodology) of the Salaf to slip out of our hands (i.e. divert and turn us away from it), that is because if we do not know the Manhaj of the Salaf, then we will renounce and forsake it, and we will not study it. For indeed it is not sufficient that a person affiliates to the Salaf (predecessors) without him having any knowledge and without (gaining) insight into his Madhhab (way). This is what they want from him.
They want us to abandon the way of the Salaf, the Fiqh of the Salaf and the knowledge of the Salaf. And that we invent a new Fiqh, as they say, which is suitable for this time (of ours). Whilst all of that is a fabrication and a lie, and the Sharee’ah (Legislation) of Islaam is suitable for every time and every place until the establishment of the Last Hour.
So the Manhaj of the Salaf is suitable for all times and all places, it is a Noor (light) from Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, do not let the speech of the Mukhaddileen (the betrayers) or the people of misguidance make you neglect and renounce it.
Translation by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree.
Reference: Manhaj Salafus-Saaleh wa Haajatul-Ummah ilayhi, A Khutbah by Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzaan www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/ar/node/15030
Al-'Awwaam b. Hawshab ash-Shaybaanee (d.148H) rahimahullaah said:
“Mention the merits of the Companions of Muhammad (ﷺ) so that the hearts of the people soften and have affection towards them. And do not mention their faults and shortcomings since it will incite the people to have hatred and enmity towards them.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: As-Sunnah of al-Khallaal (no.829).
“Mention the merits of the Companions of Muhammad (ﷺ) so that the hearts of the people soften and have affection towards them. And do not mention their faults and shortcomings since it will incite the people to have hatred and enmity towards them.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: As-Sunnah of al-Khallaal (no.829).
Al-'Awwaam b. Hawshab ash-Shaybaanee (d.148H) rahimahullaah said:
“Mention the merits of the Companions of Muhammad (ﷺ) so that the hearts of the people soften and have affection towards them. And do not mention their faults and shortcomings since it will incite the people to have hatred and enmity towards them.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: As-Sunnah of al-Khallaal (no.829).
“Mention the merits of the Companions of Muhammad (ﷺ) so that the hearts of the people soften and have affection towards them. And do not mention their faults and shortcomings since it will incite the people to have hatred and enmity towards them.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: As-Sunnah of al-Khallaal (no.829).
Ash-Shaatibee (d. 790H) rahimahullaah said:
“The root of this corruption - meaning reviling the Salaf - was from the Khawaarij. Since they were the first to curse the Salafus-Saalih and make Takfeer of the Sahaabah, may Allaah be pleased with the Sahaabah, and the likes of all of this (the aforementioned) only causes enmity and hatred.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-I'tisaam (1/158).
“The root of this corruption - meaning reviling the Salaf - was from the Khawaarij. Since they were the first to curse the Salafus-Saalih and make Takfeer of the Sahaabah, may Allaah be pleased with the Sahaabah, and the likes of all of this (the aforementioned) only causes enmity and hatred.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-I'tisaam (1/158).
Ash-Shaatibee (d. 790H) rahimahullaah said:
“The root of this corruption - meaning reviling the Salaf - was from the Khawaarij. Since they were the first to curse the Salafus-Saalih and make Takfeer of the Sahaabah, may Allaah be pleased with the Sahaabah, and the likes of all of this (the aforementioned) only causes enmity and hatred.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-I'tisaam (1/158).
“The root of this corruption - meaning reviling the Salaf - was from the Khawaarij. Since they were the first to curse the Salafus-Saalih and make Takfeer of the Sahaabah, may Allaah be pleased with the Sahaabah, and the likes of all of this (the aforementioned) only causes enmity and hatred.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-I'tisaam (1/158).
Al-Hasan b. 'Alee al-Barbahaaree (d. 329H) rahimahullaah said:
“And know that knowledge is not with narrating much and having plenty of books, but rather the scholar is one who follows the Book and the Sunnah, even if he has little knowledge and a few books. And whoever opposes the Book and the Sunnah then he is a person of innovation, even if he is plentiful in narration and has many books.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharhus-Sunnah al-Barbahaaree (no.81)
“And know that knowledge is not with narrating much and having plenty of books, but rather the scholar is one who follows the Book and the Sunnah, even if he has little knowledge and a few books. And whoever opposes the Book and the Sunnah then he is a person of innovation, even if he is plentiful in narration and has many books.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharhus-Sunnah al-Barbahaaree (no.81)
Al-Hasan b. 'Alee al-Barbahaaree (d. 329H) rahimahullaah said:
“And know that knowledge is not with narrating much and having plenty of books, but rather the scholar is one who follows the Book and the Sunnah, even if he has little knowledge and a few books. And whoever opposes the Book and the Sunnah then he is a person of innovation, even if he is plentiful in narration and has many books.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharhus-Sunnah al-Barbahaaree (no.81)
“And know that knowledge is not with narrating much and having plenty of books, but rather the scholar is one who follows the Book and the Sunnah, even if he has little knowledge and a few books. And whoever opposes the Book and the Sunnah then he is a person of innovation, even if he is plentiful in narration and has many books.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharhus-Sunnah al-Barbahaaree (no.81)
The Qur’aan & The Sunnah Have The Answers For All Differing
Explanation by Ibnul-Qayyim rahimahullaah
“(And) if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, refer it to Allaah and His Messenger (ﷺ), if you believe in Allaah and in the Last Day. That is better and more suitable for final determination.” [Surah an-Nisaa: 59].
Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullaah) mentions:
His statement:
فإن تنازعتم في شيء
“(And) if you differ in anything…”
"Anything (Shayyin)" is an indefinite article in the context of a condition, (therefore), it is general for everything that the believers disagree in, from the affairs of the religion; the small and the great from it, the apparent and the obscure from it. And if there was not in the Book of Allaah or in (the Sunnah of) His Messenger (ﷺ) a clarification of the ruling regarding that which they differed in, and if it was not sufficient, then He would not have commanded with returning back to them. Since it is not possible that He, the Most High, will command with returning back - when a dispute and a differing arises - to one who cannot resolve the dispute.
Translation by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: I'laam al-Muwaqi'een (2/92), Mashhoor Hasan checking, Daar Ibn al-Jawzee, 1423H
Explanation by Ibnul-Qayyim rahimahullaah
“(And) if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, refer it to Allaah and His Messenger (ﷺ), if you believe in Allaah and in the Last Day. That is better and more suitable for final determination.” [Surah an-Nisaa: 59].
Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullaah) mentions:
His statement:
فإن تنازعتم في شيء
“(And) if you differ in anything…”
"Anything (Shayyin)" is an indefinite article in the context of a condition, (therefore), it is general for everything that the believers disagree in, from the affairs of the religion; the small and the great from it, the apparent and the obscure from it. And if there was not in the Book of Allaah or in (the Sunnah of) His Messenger (ﷺ) a clarification of the ruling regarding that which they differed in, and if it was not sufficient, then He would not have commanded with returning back to them. Since it is not possible that He, the Most High, will command with returning back - when a dispute and a differing arises - to one who cannot resolve the dispute.
Translation by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: I'laam al-Muwaqi'een (2/92), Mashhoor Hasan checking, Daar Ibn al-Jawzee, 1423H
Ayyoob [as-Sakhtiyaanee] (d. 131H) rahimahullaah said:
“When I am informed about the death of a man from Ahlus-Sunnah it is as if I have lost one of my limbs.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-Laalikaa’ee (no.29) & Al-Hilyah (9/3).
“When I am informed about the death of a man from Ahlus-Sunnah it is as if I have lost one of my limbs.”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-Laalikaa’ee (no.29) & Al-Hilyah (9/3).
The Qur'aan: A Complete Cure For All The Diseases Of The Body & The Heart
By Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751H) rahimahullaah
Allaah, the Most High said: And We send down from the Qur’aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it). [Surah al-Israa: 82].
And He, the Most High, said: O mankind! There has come to you a good advice from your Lord (i.e. the Qur'aan, ordering all that is good and forbidding all that is evil), and a healing for that (disease of ignorance, doubt, hypocrisy and differences, etc.) in your breasts. [Surah Yunus: 57].
Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751H) rahimahullaah mentions:
So the Qur’aan is a complete cure for all the diseases of the heart and the body, and the maladies of the worldly life and the Hereafter. And not every person qualifies for it (i.e. worthy and deserving) and is given the success and ability in being cured by it. And if the sick person wishes to take advantage and benefit by treating himself with it, and he applies and implements it upon his malady with Sidq (truthfulness) and Eemaan (Faith), alongside having complete acceptance, firm belief (I'tiqaad) and by fulfilling its conditions, then no disease will ever be able to resist and withstand it.
And how can any disease resist and withstand the Speech of the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth? If it was revealed upon a mountain then it would have split it asunder, or upon the Earth then indeed it would have split it into pieces. So there is not a disease from the diseases of the hearts and bodies except that in the Qur’aan there is a means of guidance to its cure, its cause, and protection from it; for whoever Allaah has blessed him with understanding of His Book.
And it has preceded in the beginning of the speech relating to medicine, the clarification of the guidance of the tremendous Qur’aan regarding its fundamental principles and conventions (i.e. standards); (from) that is preserving health, protecting it, and expelling that which is harmful, and the proof for all of these (aforementioned) types.
And as for the cures for the (ailments of) the hearts, then the Qur’aan mentions them in detail, and it mentions the diseases (of the hearts) and their cures. He, [the Most High], said: “Is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down to you the Book (the Qur'aan) which is recited to them?” [Surah al-Ankabut: 51].
And whoever is not cured by the Qur’aan then Allaah did not cure him, and whoever is not sufficed by the Qur'aan, then Allaah did not suffice him with it.
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Zaad al-Ma'aad fee Hadiyy Khayr al-'Ibaad by Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullaah, (4/322-323)
By Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751H) rahimahullaah
Allaah, the Most High said: And We send down from the Qur’aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it). [Surah al-Israa: 82].
And He, the Most High, said: O mankind! There has come to you a good advice from your Lord (i.e. the Qur'aan, ordering all that is good and forbidding all that is evil), and a healing for that (disease of ignorance, doubt, hypocrisy and differences, etc.) in your breasts. [Surah Yunus: 57].
Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751H) rahimahullaah mentions:
So the Qur’aan is a complete cure for all the diseases of the heart and the body, and the maladies of the worldly life and the Hereafter. And not every person qualifies for it (i.e. worthy and deserving) and is given the success and ability in being cured by it. And if the sick person wishes to take advantage and benefit by treating himself with it, and he applies and implements it upon his malady with Sidq (truthfulness) and Eemaan (Faith), alongside having complete acceptance, firm belief (I'tiqaad) and by fulfilling its conditions, then no disease will ever be able to resist and withstand it.
And how can any disease resist and withstand the Speech of the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth? If it was revealed upon a mountain then it would have split it asunder, or upon the Earth then indeed it would have split it into pieces. So there is not a disease from the diseases of the hearts and bodies except that in the Qur’aan there is a means of guidance to its cure, its cause, and protection from it; for whoever Allaah has blessed him with understanding of His Book.
And it has preceded in the beginning of the speech relating to medicine, the clarification of the guidance of the tremendous Qur’aan regarding its fundamental principles and conventions (i.e. standards); (from) that is preserving health, protecting it, and expelling that which is harmful, and the proof for all of these (aforementioned) types.
And as for the cures for the (ailments of) the hearts, then the Qur’aan mentions them in detail, and it mentions the diseases (of the hearts) and their cures. He, [the Most High], said: “Is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down to you the Book (the Qur'aan) which is recited to them?” [Surah al-Ankabut: 51].
And whoever is not cured by the Qur’aan then Allaah did not cure him, and whoever is not sufficed by the Qur'aan, then Allaah did not suffice him with it.
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Zaad al-Ma'aad fee Hadiyy Khayr al-'Ibaad by Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullaah, (4/322-323)
Az-Zuhree (d. 124H) rahimahullaah said:
“Those who passed away from our Scholars used to say: 'Holding fast to the Sunnah is salvation.'”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Ad-Daarimee (no.96), al-Laalikaa’ee (no.15, no.136 & no.137), al-Hilyah (3/369, 5/364), Taareekh ad-Damishq (55/359), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (5/337, 18/343).
“Those who passed away from our Scholars used to say: 'Holding fast to the Sunnah is salvation.'”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Ad-Daarimee (no.96), al-Laalikaa’ee (no.15, no.136 & no.137), al-Hilyah (3/369, 5/364), Taareekh ad-Damishq (55/359), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (5/337, 18/343).
Az-Zuhree (d. 124H) rahimahullaah said:
“Those who passed away from our Scholars used to say: 'Holding fast to the Sunnah is salvation.'”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Ad-Daarimee (no.96), al-Laalikaa’ee (no.15, no.136 & no.137), al-Hilyah (3/369, 5/364), Taareekh ad-Damishq (55/359), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (5/337, 18/343).
“Those who passed away from our Scholars used to say: 'Holding fast to the Sunnah is salvation.'”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Ad-Daarimee (no.96), al-Laalikaa’ee (no.15, no.136 & no.137), al-Hilyah (3/369, 5/364), Taareekh ad-Damishq (55/359), Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (4/57) & Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (5/337, 18/343).
'Abdullaah b. al-Mubaarak (d. 181H) rahimahullaah said:
“Verily Allaah safeguarded and preserved the chains of narration for the Ummah of Muhammad (ﷺ)”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360).
“Verily Allaah safeguarded and preserved the chains of narration for the Ummah of Muhammad (ﷺ)”
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360).
The Innovators And The Fabricators Of Hadeeth Are More Harmful To Islaam Than The Disbelievers
Abul-Wafaa 'Alee b. 'Aqeel (d. 513H), the Jurist, said:
Our Shaykh Abul-Fadl al-Hamdaanee said:
The innovators in Islaam and the fabricators of Hadeeth are far more severe (i.e. more dangerous) than the Mulhidoon (atheist disbelievers); because the Mulhidoon aim to corrupt the religion from the outside and as for these people then they aim to corrupt it from within. So they are like the people of a land who strive hard to corrupt its (good) state of affairs, whereas the Mulhidoon are like those who are surrounding it and besieging it from the outside. So those infiltrators (from within) open up the fortress (for those surrounding it and besieging it). Therefore they are more dangerous to Islaam than those who do not wear the garbs of Islaam.
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: al-Mawdoo'aat (1/50)
Abul-Wafaa 'Alee b. 'Aqeel (d. 513H), the Jurist, said:
Our Shaykh Abul-Fadl al-Hamdaanee said:
The innovators in Islaam and the fabricators of Hadeeth are far more severe (i.e. more dangerous) than the Mulhidoon (atheist disbelievers); because the Mulhidoon aim to corrupt the religion from the outside and as for these people then they aim to corrupt it from within. So they are like the people of a land who strive hard to corrupt its (good) state of affairs, whereas the Mulhidoon are like those who are surrounding it and besieging it from the outside. So those infiltrators (from within) open up the fortress (for those surrounding it and besieging it). Therefore they are more dangerous to Islaam than those who do not wear the garbs of Islaam.
Translated by: Aboo 'Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: al-Mawdoo'aat (1/50)