And whoever disparages and degrades a single one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (swallallahu alaihi wasallam) or dislikes him on account of something that occurred from him, or mentions his shortcomings, then he is an innovator. Ibnul-Qayyim says in his book Haadiul-Arwaah ilaa Bilaadit-Afraah, “And we shall quote their consensus (i.e., that of the Salaf) just as Harb, the companion of Imaam Ahmad, has quoted from them in his own wording in his well known al-Masaa’il. He said, ‘This is the madhhab of the People of Knowledge, the Ashaabul-Athar (People of the Narrations), Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’als, those who stick fast to it (Ahlus-Sunnah) and who seek to guide themselves by (them i.e., the Ahlus-Sunnah) from among those in the presence of the Messenger of Allaah (swallallahu alaihi wasallam) up until this day of ours. And I met whomever I met from among the Scholars of the people of the Hijaaz and Shaam and others besides them. Whoever differs with and opposes a single matter from the madhaab (of these People of Knowledge) or contests and defames them or criticises the one who speaks (by what they speak with), then he is an opposer (mukhaalif), an innovator (mubtadi’) and one who has left the Jamaa’ah, who has ceased to be upon the manhaj of the Sunnah and the Path of Truth.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:22:13 +0000