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)
'Abdullaah b. al-Mubaarak (d. 181H) rahimahullaah said:
“Seeking a connected chain of narration (Isnaad) is from the religion.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-Kifaayah of al-Khateeb (no.557) & Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/361)
“Seeking a connected chain of narration (Isnaad) is from the religion.”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Al-Kifaayah of al-Khateeb (no.557) & Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/361)
Sufyaan ath-Thawree (d. 161H) rahimahullaah said:
“The chain of narration is a weapon for the believer. So if he is not equipped with any weapons, then with what will he fight?”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharaf Ashaabul-Hadeeth (no.76), Adabul-Imlaa wa Istimlaa: (no.20), Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (2/273-274), Tabaqaat ash-Shaafi'yyah (1/314), Jaami’ at-Tahseel fee Ahkaam al-Maraaseel (no.59), Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360), Fathul-Mugheeth: Indian print (3/333), Cairo print (3/4), Tadreebur-Raawee (2/160), al-Hittah Fee Dhikr as-Sihaah as-Sittah (no.42).
“The chain of narration is a weapon for the believer. So if he is not equipped with any weapons, then with what will he fight?”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharaf Ashaabul-Hadeeth (no.76), Adabul-Imlaa wa Istimlaa: (no.20), Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (2/273-274), Tabaqaat ash-Shaafi'yyah (1/314), Jaami’ at-Tahseel fee Ahkaam al-Maraaseel (no.59), Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360), Fathul-Mugheeth: Indian print (3/333), Cairo print (3/4), Tadreebur-Raawee (2/160), al-Hittah Fee Dhikr as-Sihaah as-Sittah (no.42).
Sufyaan ath-Thawree (d. 161H) rahimahullaah said:
“The chain of narration is a weapon for the believer. So if he is not equipped with any weapons, then with what will he fight?”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharaf Ashaabul-Hadeeth (no.76), Adabul-Imlaa wa Istimlaa: (no.20), Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (2/273-274), Tabaqaat ash-Shaafi'yyah (1/314), Jaami’ at-Tahseel fee Ahkaam al-Maraaseel (no.59), Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360), Fathul-Mugheeth: Indian print (3/333), Cairo print (3/4), Tadreebur-Raawee (2/160), al-Hittah Fee Dhikr as-Sihaah as-Sittah (no.42).
“The chain of narration is a weapon for the believer. So if he is not equipped with any weapons, then with what will he fight?”
Translated by: Aboo ‘Abdillaah Bilal Hussain al-Kashmiree
Reference: Sharaf Ashaabul-Hadeeth (no.76), Adabul-Imlaa wa Istimlaa: (no.20), Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa (2/273-274), Tabaqaat ash-Shaafi'yyah (1/314), Jaami’ at-Tahseel fee Ahkaam al-Maraaseel (no.59), Sharh 'ilal at-Tirmidhee (1/360), Fathul-Mugheeth: Indian print (3/333), Cairo print (3/4), Tadreebur-Raawee (2/160), al-Hittah Fee Dhikr as-Sihaah as-Sittah (no.42).