What does the word Salafi mean? a group of Muslims have gone astray calling themselves Salafi, so it basically means, a person who is astray, and who thinks hes one of the minority of muslims on the right path while the majority are not but the Prophet [saw] described the group that will be on the right path, at the times of many sects, as the majority: (1) Imam Abu Dawood (Rahimahullah) has quoted the well known Hadith concerning the division of the Muslim Ummah into seventy-three sects in his Sunan (3/4580, English edn): Abu Amir al-Hawdhani said, Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) stood among us and said, Beware! The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) stood among us and said: Beware! The People of the Book before (you) were split up into 72 sects, and this community will be split up into 73, seventy-two of them will go to Hell and one of them will go to Paradise, and it is the majority group (Jamaah). Muslim (Rahimahullah) relates on the authority of Abu Hurayra (Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said, Whoever is disobedient, and departs from the majority, and then dies, has died in a state of Jahiliyya. (13) Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allahs Messenger (Peace be upon him) as saying: Follow the great mass (as-Sawad al-Azam) for he who kept himself away from it, in fact would be thrown in Hell Fire. (Ibn Majah; vide: Mishkat, 1/174, by A.H. Siddiqui). (8) And Arfajah (Allah be pleased with him) reported (Allahs Messenger, peace be upon him, as saying): that Allahs hand is over the Jamaah and the Devil is with whoever deviates from the Jamaah. (Collected by Imam al-Tabarani) (17) Imam al-Tirmidhi (4/2167) reported on the authority of Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), who said: Verily my Ummah would not agree (or he said the Ummah of Muhammad) would not agree upon error and Allahs hand is over the group and whoever dissents from them departs to Hell. (see also Mishkat, 1/173) Imam al-Azizi (d. 1070/1660; Rahimahullah) quoted Imam al-Munawis (d. 1031/1622; Rahimahullah) commentary to the last Hadith in his al-Siraj al-munir sharh al-Jami al-saghir (3.449), as follows:- Allahs hand is over the group (al-Azizi): Munawi says, Meaning his protection and preservation of them, signifying that the collectivity of the people of Islam are in Allahs fold, so be also in Allahs shelter, in the midst of them, and do not separate yourselves from them. The rest of the Hadith, according to the one who first recorded it (Tirmidhi), is:- and whoever descents from them departs to hell. Meaning that whoever diverges from the overwhelming majority concerning what is lawful or unlawful and on which the Community does not differ has slipped off the path of guidance and this will lead him to hell. (vide: The Reliance of the Traveller, pg. 25)
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