All praise is due to Allah, may blessings and salutations be upon our prophet, Muhammad ﷺ, his family, and his companions. To proceed:
Indeed there has been a tribulation among the ranks of the Salafi, and we have seen a part of the Salafis disparaging their fellow brothers, warning against them and declaring them to be Sa’afiqah. The fitnah is not limited to Nigeria, it has splitted the Salafis all over the world.
A brother asked Shaykh Rabee’ that : “This tribulation has spread in Tunisia.” and Shaykh Rabee’ bn Haadi replied him that: “This fitnah has torn apart Salafis across the world, it has spread to every place and not just in your city alone”¹
This article is meant to give a concise explanation about the basis of the fitnah, the opinion of scholars on it and explanation of some popular doubts in our society.
The term Sa’afiqah is simply used to refer to people who have no knowledge but depict themselves to be scholars and the word is oppressively being used to wage war against many scholars and students of knowledge.
The fitnah started when Dr. Muhammad bn Haadi began to warn against some people whom he claimed they are not qualified enough to give classes; he referred to them as Sa’afiqah and he said that they should be affixed with the people of desires (the innovators). He warned severely against these individuals, the most surprising thing about those warnings was that he did not mention a particular action at a specific incident that pointed to the fact that those people are dangerous as he was portraying them to be. The Salafis respected him so much, they severally asked for evidences, but the only thing he would tell them was “Evidences are coming”! The Salafis -scholars and students of knowledge alike- waited so long for his evidences till they became tired of his criticism, disparagement, revilements and warnings that are bankrupt of evidences.
This became the first point scholars had against him. How would you be warning against people without mentioning specific evidences? These people he was warning against are not weeds in his backyard that he can just uproot easily, they are people whom scholars have praised to be qualified to give classes, they are graduates who have masters and doctorates in different fields of Islamic knowledge and they have so many people attached to them and refer to them as ‘Shaykh’, how can Dr. Ibn Haadi warn against these individuals without mentioning specific evidences for why they deserved such?
You may see any of the followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi, the Musa’fiqah (i.e those who tag their Salafi brothers as Sa’afiqah unjustly) coming up with stories like Dr. Ibn Haadi has been warning those individuals secretly before, ask them these questions “Before Shaykh Rabee’ openly warned against Halabi, there are evidences of patient advices he would publicly issue to him that would let the public understand what is basic issues between them. Before Shaykh Ubayd Al Jābiree publicly warned against Hajūri, there are series of exchange of letters between them. Where are those undisputable public articles, audios and videos he used to advise and correct those whom he alleged to be Sa’afiqah? Let them show you the documents that come from Dr. Ibn Haadi explaining the errors of these people to them, rather than bringing up PDFs written by controversial and mostly unknown individuals who use pseudonyms, after the deed has been done.
In his commentary on the revilements Dr. Ibn Haadi placed on those individuals², Shaykh Rabee’ حفظه الله quoted 18 different excerpts from the classes and lectures of Dr. Ibn Haadi where he was reviling these individuals heavily without mentioning specific things they did and Shaykh Rabee’ kept challenging him to provide evidences for the things he said.
Normally, if we see our Salafi brothers falling into slips and mistakes, the first thing that should come is patient advice and correction of what they have done wrong, and if they do not yield, we refute their errors and doubts and if they are still adamant of their evil ways, then scholars can declare them misguided and innovators. But Dr. Ibn Haadi took it around the wrong way, he started by warning against them without mentioning specific errors they committed, and this indeed is an oppression against those individuals and Allah has made oppression forbidden, Abu Dharr Al-Ghifāri narrated from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who said that Allah said:
يَا عِبَادِي، إِنِّي حَرَّمْتُ الظُّلْمَ عَلَى نَفْسِي، وَجَعَلْتُهُ بَيْنَكُمْ مُحَرَّمًا، فَلاَ تَظَالَمُوا
“O my servants, indeed I have made oppression unlawful for Me and unlawful for you, so do not commit oppression against one another.” Muslim no. 2577
Would anyone feel good that is he being warned against publicly without evidences? Would you also accept the warning of Dr. Ibn Haadi without evidences? No? No one would accept that and this is where the second issue came in, so many people rejected the warnings and they determine to defend the honour of those individuals like the prophet ﷺ commanded us to help the oppressed and the oppressor, and surprisingly, Dr. Ibn Haadi added them all to his list of the Sa’afiqah!
Funnily, many of those who were newly added to that list are people known for knowledge with Dr. Ibn Haadi³ himself and it is very weird how they suddenly became Sa’afiqah (ignorants who depict themselves to be scholars). What about the knowledge these people had before that you also acknowledged? Did it fly away from their hearts? Referring to people who have knowledge as ignorants is one of the greatest oppression that Dr. Ibn Haadi committed. The likes of Shaykh Abdullah bn Silfeeq Adh Dhafiree, Shaykh Uwaysaat, Shaykh Nizaar Haashim and likes of them are people who are very famous with knowledge, telling the Salafis now that they are ignorants is really an impossible pill for any one to swallow, except for the person who wants to blindfollow Dr. Ibn Haadi.
Scholars who are more older than Dr. Ibn Haadi in age, experience and knowledge looked into the affair, Shaykh Rabee’ called upon Dr. Ibn Haadi to sit with those people he had spoken against and the issue should be resolved. He initially agreed to sit with them and later refused to attend the sitting. Shaykh Rabee’ then requested that he should provide the evidences he has against those people, he came to Shaykh Rabee’ with some evidences and Shaykh Rabee’ looked at them and found out that they do not worth all those attacks and revilements against those individuals.
After a while the followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi began to claim that Shaykh Rabee’ didn’t read the evidences and Shaykh Rabee’ said “I read his word letter by letter, he has no evidence, not even an half-evidence!”⁴
Another time, the followers of Ibn Haadi agreed that Shaykh Rabee’ actually read those evidences but he doesn’t understand evidences, those words actually got to Shaykh Rabee’ and he replied, “Mā Shā Allāh Mā Shā Allāh. The mules understood the evidence while I did not!!! Shaykh Qar’āwī (may Allāh be pleased with him) spread Tawhīd from Sāmitah (a province in Saudī Arabia) to Makkah and he chose with him callers for that and they don’t have with them except secondary certificate. And these students (that are named Sa’afiqah) some of them are doctors and it is said about them; “ignorant Sa’afiqah” and they are prevented from teaching, so what evidence is with them???
Whoever agrees with them, then he is the real scholar even if he is an ignoramus and whoever opposes them, then he is the ignoramus even if he is a scholar.”⁵
Alhamdulillah, those so-called evidences later appeared on the internet and they have been sufficiently refuted⁶.
After that, the followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi came back and said that those twitter screenshots were not the real evidences of Dr. Ibn Haadi and he only showed Shaykh Rabee’ those ones and it was because Shaykh Rabee’ did not accept those ones, that was what made him keep the rest of the evidences. What an intellectual will ask himself is “If truly Dr. Ibn Haadi has those evidences, why can’t he organize a lecture and bring out those evidence once and for all?” “Why can’t he publish those evidences once on internet?” These questions should echo in head of the Intellectual.
Followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi accepted those warnings and labels and they joined him in warning against their brothers oppressively and this caused splitting and chaos everywhere. And funnily, they claim to warn against these individuals because ‘they are slandering scholars and causing splitting’. Subhaanallah, this is how people beat others and they would still be crying as if they are being beaten.
Dr. Ibn Haadi with the help of his followers started digging to the past of those people they are attacking (the ones they started with and those ones that defended them) and began to exhume those people’s slips and mistakes to justify their unwarranted and premature warnings. Some of those errors are mere allegations without facts, some are slips of the tongue, some are things those people have repented from and some are actual mistakes which can be treated with patience and wisdom. All these just to justify the oppressive tag ‘Sa’afiqah’. Alhamdulillah, as the mistakes and errors are being exhumed, the concerned people are explaining and repenting to Allah for those mistakes, Alhamdulillah.
These exhumed mistakes began to fly around on social media and they are being used to depict those they are waging war against as people who are really ignorant and they should not be listened to. If we are to agree with them (based on these weightless so-called evidences) on the people they started with, how is it possible for us to agree with them on people they added to the list in the later time? What we have to ask them is that “Do you know all these mistakes from them and you do not warn against them until they supported those whom you are against? These mistakes you all bringing up are committed several years before this incident, what made you keep quiet then and made you think it is now that they are against your oppression that you have to bring their mistakes up?”
This is a saddening affair that his followers have nothing to justify their oppression against those individuals except through the collection of mistakes. So-so would reject the tag Sa’afiqah now, and next thing you see was his mistake while quoting a Qur’ān verse three years ago, so-so would reject the tag Sa’afiqah today and the next thing you see was where he made a slip of tongue regarding an issue of ‘aqeedah five years ago. Is this the religion of Allah? The followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi should even be ashamed that these people they are bringing up their mistakes are people who have been giving public lectures for more than ten years and thousands of their audios are available and all the mistakes that person made are not even up to twenty. If truly these people are ignorants and not capable to teach as they claimed, there should have been uncountable errors in their past classes. And it is funnier that the hunter is being hunted too, people also have several mistakes from Dr. Ibn Haadi and his followers too. If our scale of measuring the Sa’afiqah is the scale of collections of mistakes and errors, then Dr. Ibn Haadi and his followers would have a distinguishing position on the list.
This was how this fitnah started till it got everywhere, and you see people declaring their brothers to be ignorant and misguided, simply because these brothers refused the oppression of Dr. Ibn Haadi. Here in southwestern Nigeria, the fitnah is majorly being ignited and spread by the followers of the innovator; Yaḥya Al Hajūri and those who have been deceived by them. They saw the fitnah as an opportunity to settle old scores, gain ascendency in fame and leadership and they made use of false cries and emotion to deceive a lot of people who are unaware of their plots.
Many people were caught in between, including many teachers, callers and students of knowledge upon the sunnah; and they do not know where the truth is; many also got deceived by Dr. Muhammad bn Hadi’s past record of uprightness and truth, and being unaware of the reality of this fitnah, they followed him.
The Musa’fiqah of our land chose to deceive people with illusions and emotion by portraying the issue as if the major thing the so-called Sa’afiqah has against Dr. Ibn Haadi was that he referred to an individual as “Aahir” and that the so-called Sa’afiqah slandered so many scholars of sunnah. The names of Shaykh Sa’eed Raslān and Shaykh Sulaymān Ar Ruhayli usually top the list. Many of them would not mention the basis of the issue because the basis of the issue clearly depicts that Dr. Ibn Haadi was wrong, and some others (among them) wouldn’t mention it because they do not even know. The honoured reader should continue with me as I explain the reality of those claims.
Firstly, the issue of Dr. Ibn Haadi is a nāzilah and senior scholars are the ones who are only expected to talk regarding issues like these. Don’t be deceived by the way the shameless Musa’fiqah wanted to depict the issue as if some youths are the ones designing opinions as regards the issue of Dr. Ibn Haadi. Scholars are the ones warning against him, especially Shaykh Rabee’ bn Haadi Al Madkhali حفطه الله and Shaykh ‘Ubayd Al Jābiree حفظه الله.
The issue regarding the word ‘Aahir’ started when the administrators of Huda wa Nur and An Naseehah, the centres in Holland noticed some disliked affairs with an individual, Abu Ayyoub Al Magribi Al Hollandi who was a part of them and they wished to declare themselves to be free from him. The affair was known to Dr. Ibn Haadi and he advised that they shouldn’t do that. Shaykh Arafaat bn Ḥasan al-Muḥammadī, one of the scholars Dr. Ibn Haadi tagged to be Sa’fūq also knew of the affair. Suddenly, the administrators of both centres announced themselves to be free from Abu Ayyoub Al Magribi without mentioning reasons. The announcement made coincided with the time there was a heavy pressure on Dr. Ibn Haadi to produce evidences for the tag Sa’afiqah he had placed on Shaykh Arafaat and others, he thought it was Shaykh Arafaat that commanded the administrators of those centres in Holland to go against what he had advised with by publishing the announcement; he then wrote an article he titled as Kashfu Niqab , in this article, he claimed that Shaykh Arafaat was the one behind the announcement and even described the announcement to be filled with vile and foul words (which in reality is not in the announcement). He placed Abu Ayyoub Al Magribi as a witness for his claims.
Abu Ayyoub later published a notice that he is free from what Dr. Ibn Haadi wrote in Kashfu Niqab. This notice of Abu Ayyoub came as a shock to Dr. Ibn Haadi as the newly found evidence against the so-called Sa’afiqah just got destroyed and it was really a shameful affair.
With the anger of the opposition Dr. Ibn Haadi got from Shaykh Abdullah bn Silfeeq Adh Dhafiree, Shaykh ‘Abbaas Ibn Jawnah, and Abu Ayyoub Al Magribi Al Hollandi, Dr. Ibn Haadi organized a lecture in a masjid and titled the lecture as “The Time Has Come For Muhammad bn Haadi To Break His Silence”. The title of the lecture in and of itself is a deception, because Dr. Ibn has not been silent before, he has been warning seriously against these people and he has been tagging them to be Sa’afiqah.
In the said lecture, Dr. Ibn Haadi said, “And I return to this, to that which I wrote in Kashf an-Niqāb regarding the principle of these people: That the praise of a person and being pleased with him, is for the one who is with them, even if that person is the most immoral and wicked of people with respect to honour, such as the ’Aahir (fornicator/immoral person) and the wicked, immoral Abu Ayoub Al-Maghribi Al-Hollandi, ‘Aahir (a fornicator/immoral person) and wicked, immoral person.” And at other parts, he referred to him as “ill-mannered drunkard” and “frequenter of bars and pubs”.
Before we look at the argument regarding the word ‘Aahir, look at the statements above as a whole, are they good things that should be said to a Muslim? Even if the said person was truly a sinner, what stops Dr. Ibn Haadi from calling him and advising him privately, why must he go to the masjid to announce the sins of a fellow brother?
Dr. Ibn Haadi in the above statement qualified the Sa’afiqah as people who are only pleased with people who are with them and they do not care even if that person is a bad person. A just reader should consider the following questions:
If truly Abu Ayyoub was immoral as depicted by Dr. Ibn Haadi, why did Dr. Haadi choose him as a witness in Kashfu Niqab? Is it now part of the religion to take immoral people as witness? Or was it that Abu Ayyoub is a good person and Dr. Ibn Haadi chose to defame him with these attributes?
Dear honoured reader, with what you have seen, who is the one who is truly only pleased when people are on his side? Don’t forget that Dr. Ibn Haadi condemned the announcement that came from Holland, even though the announcement did not mention anything evil about Abu Ayyoub and Dr. Ibn Haadi referred to that announcement to have contained vile and foul words, what about these statements that Dr. Ibn Haadi made, is it not the one that should be condemned with the foul and vile words it contains? Dr. Ibn Haadi knew that exposing a fellow brother is wrong and he condemned it (even though it is not contained in the announcement) what made him now believe it is right to now announce the person’s sins in the house of Allah (even if it is true) and the audio of such thing is being sent around on internet?
This oppression against Abu Ayyoub and others that Dr. Ibn is yet to repent from are part of the main reasons why the so-called Sa’afiqah are against Dr. Ibn Haadi. Do you still think the so called Sa’afiqah are wrong for this too?
Do we expect brothers to agree with this oppression when Allah said,
وَتَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الْبرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِنَّ اللّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ
Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in punishment. [ Maa’idah: 2]
Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ said:
من أعانَ على خصومهِ بظلمٍ ، أو يعينُ على ظلمٍ ، يزلْ في سخطِ اللهِ حتّى ينزعَ
“Whoever aids (another person) upon a dispute unjustly, he will continue to be beneath Allāh’s wrath, until he desists.”
[Ibn Mājah (2320) | Authenticated by al-Albānī in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ (6049)]
Imām Maymūn bn Mihrān said:
الظالم، والمعين على الظلم، والمحب له سواء
“The oppressor and the one who assists (another) upon oppression, and the one who loves it are the same.”
[Reported by al-Kharāʾiṭī in Masāwiʾ al-Akhlāq (No. 595)]
The world ‘Aahir’ can be used to mean adulterer as it was reported in the hadith that,
الولد للفراش وللعاهر الحجر
“The child is attributed to the owner of the bed [in which he was born] and the stone [of legal punishment] is for the adulterer (‘āhir)”
And with the words that Dr. Ibn Haadi said with it (a drunkard, a frequenter of bars and pubs), it connoted that he was referring to Abu Ayyoub as an adulterer in which he does not have four witnesses for, and it is a crime for anyone to claim that a person committed Zina without providing the four witnesses and such a person should be lashed with 80 lashes and his witness would not be accepted again, until he repents. From one of those things that pointed to the fact that what Dr. Ibn Haadi said about Abu Ayyoub referred to adulterer was that his followers began to defend him that it was Abu Ayyoub that confessed to Dr. Ibn Haadi that he committed Zina, one of them was even brave enough to say it to the face of Shaykh Rabee’⁷ . Naasir Hanbali, a follower Dr. Ibn Haadi also translated the lecture to English and he translated the word ‘Aahir’ as Adulterer/fornicator as contained in the picture below. (Even though, he cowardly went to delete the video when he realized that it is a crime and re-translated the word and put up a new video).
This issue got Dr. Ibn Haadi to court and he was declared guilty the first time, and after then he appealed the case and was later freed. And the fact that the court later freed him is not an evidence that he is free from Qadhf (falsely alleging a person of Zina). After he was declared guilty at the first case and he was about to go for appeal and somebody mentioned that affair of his appeal to Shaykh Rabee’, Shaykh replied “ Mā shā Allāh, Mā shā Allāh! Enough for you is the verses of Allāh regarding the conviction of the one who makes Qadhf. The one who has religiosity with him doesnʼt need a court case (to prove the severity of Qadhf).”⁸
The word ‘Aahir’ meaning an Adulterer is arguable and the honoured reader should not be carried away with whether that is what Dr. Ibn Haadi meant or not; but he should know that the other meaning that can be given to that word is ‘immoral’ and was even an awful thing to say about a fellow Muslim in a Masjid.
Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan Al-Fawzaan was asked that “Is it allowed to slander and accuse a Muslim of being a fornicator (‘āhir) and being an ill-mannered drunk and a seller of alcohol? Is it allowed to take knowledge from a person who does that?”
Shaykh said: “This is not permitted, this is falsehood — it is futile speech, backbiting and rumour-mongering. It is not permitted to speak about the honour of the people. Allah (the Majestic and Most High) said, ‘And do not backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate that — and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is the one who accepts repentance, the Most Merciful.’ The Prophet ﷺ was asked about backbiting. So, he said, ‘It is that you say about your brother that which he hates.’ They said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what if it is true what I say about my brother?’ He replied, ‘If there is in him what you say, then you have backbitten him. And if there is not in him what you say, then you have slandered him.’ Meaning: You have lied upon him.”⁹
Shaykh ‘Ubayd Al Jābiree was asked regarding the affair of Dr. Ibn Haadi, and Shaykh warned against him, he said, “… He (Dr. Ibn Haadi) claimed that he had proofs, however he began to dive right and left (due to having nothing of evidence) with the unstable, imbeciles, the insane ones who possess blind fanaticism that he has accumulated around himself. The conclusion is that it is incumbent to warn against him and those with him because they do not have anything as it be said except for blind fanaticism.”¹⁰
By now, the honoured reader would have seen the deceit and emotional blackmail that the followers of Dr. Ibn Haadi have been using to cause chaos and ignite fitnah among the people.
And as regards Shaykh Sulaymān Ar Ruhayli, it was Shaykh Rabee’ that warned against him and it is not the so-called Sa’afiqah youth that warned against him as those people have been painting. Those people knew that Shaykh Sulaymān is very popular among general people and to claim the the so called Sa’afiqah are slandering him will get them people’s attention and sympathy. But the reality is that he was warned against by Shaykh Rabee’ due to his praise of Dr. Ibn Haadi at Ṣāmitah, after Dr. Ibn Haadi has been oppressing his brothers and has been warned against by scholars like Shaykh Rabee’ and Shaykh ‘Ubayd Al Jābiree. A brother asked Shaykh Rabee’ that, is it authentic that you warned against Shaykh Sulaymān Ar Ruhayli? And Shaykh Rabee’ said “Yes and I warn against everyone supporting Muhammad bn Haadi”¹¹
Also, regarding Shaykh Sa’eed Raslān, this is what Dr. ‘Abdullāh ibn Salfīq Adh-Dhafeeri has to say about him.
Question:
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuhu
Allāh bless you and benefit you graciously and kindly. Is Shaykh Muhammad Sa’īd Raslān a Salafī from the scholars of Sunnah? Allāh reward you.
Answer:
Shaykh Muhammad Sa’īd Raslān, from the time we have known him, is a Salafī, a defender of the truth, waging war against the Sūfīs on their own soil and midst, waging war against the Ikhwān (Muslim Brotherhood), as well as calling to Tawhīd and Sunnah.
However, those who have taken a certain stance on him is because of his disheartening and forsaking position with the Salafī scholars and students of knowledge in the fitnah of (Muhammad) ibn Hādī.
With this fitnah, and we ask Allāh for safety, many of the mashāyikh have fallen into it because Muhammad ibn Hādī, at one point, was from the heads of Salafīyyah.
However, he has deviated, oppressed others and has been afflicted with self-amazement, holding grudges and settling scores, as well as longing and having love for fame and leadership.
Futhermore, the living aren’t safe from falling into fitnah. We ask Allāh to make us firm upon the truth.
What’s obligatory is to refer back to the major scholars who are aware and understand the benefits and harms concerning the matter of Shaykh Muhammad Sa’īd Raslān, likewise to abandon arguing and disputing concerning that matter so that we may not fall into a new fitnah like these hasty and reckless ones have fallen into.
People have either become too negligent or too excessive. Moreover, the Muslim should hold his tongue, ask Allāh for steadfastness and remember and remind himself of his standing he’ll have before al-Jabbār on the Day of Resurrection and that he’ll be questioned and accounted for every major and minor deed.
O Lord, grant us safety and save us and protect us from deviation and fitan!
We ask Allāh to grant understanding and foresight to Shaykh Raslān and the other mashāyikh concerning the fitnah of ibn Hādī which has split and divided the people of Islām and the Sunnah, planted seeds of evil, hatred and animosity between Ahl as-Sunnah, and has weakened their da’wah and has made Ahl al-Bid’ah and the enemies of the da’wah rejoice over it.
Likewise, I advise you with (seeking knowledge from in Egypt) Shaykh ‘Alī as-Sayyid al-Wasīfī, for he is upon firmness and steadfastness with regard to this fitnah. Allāh keep us and him firm and steadfast upon the truth, Sunnah and Īmān.
With this, I conclude by asking Allāh to raise the rank of and grant peace and blessings to our Prophet Muhammad, his family and Companions, all of them in entirety.
Written by: (Shaykh) ‘Abdullāh ibn Salfīq adh-Dhafīrī
Date: Tuesday Fajr, 22nd of Dhū al-Hijjah 1442 AH
Translated by: Abū ‘Abd ar-Rahmān Khalīl Darwīsh¹²
The above is what the scholars have said regarding both Shaykhs, but the Musa’fiqah do not want you know that scholars are the ones who spoke against them, so they claim falsely the so called Sa’afiqah slander and abuse both (May Allah get hold of them for their false accusations). They have been challenged severally to bring a single evidence of where brothers slander and abuse both Shaykhs, but they are unable to present any evidences. They spread rumours that teachers at Salafi Publications (SPUBS) are slandering those scholars, we told them to produce a single screenshot or audio to prove that and till today, they are unable to do so. Musa’fiqah are lairs! They only hold on to rumours and unverified evidences, imagine one of them saw a screenshot of an unknown man speaking ill of Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān حفظه الله and he concluded that the people he referred to as Sa’afiqah slander the Shaykh and he foolishly spreads that around. People who are more foolish than him accepted that from him while they all know that these people they called Sa’afiqah would translate and spread benefits from Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān.
These Musa’fiqah are known with placing funny claims on their opponents and would say that the so-called Sa’afiqah do not have more than three senior scholars, Shaykh Rabee’, Shaykh Ubayd and Shaykh Abdullah Al Bukhari. This is a plain lie from these ill-minded people, because the brothers these people alleged to be Sa’afiqah have never stopped to spread benefits from the likes of Shaykh Luhaydaan, Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān, Mufti Abdul Aziz Āl Shaykh and the likes.
The more ignorant ones among them would claim that brothers slander Shaykh al-Albani, Shaykh Ahmad An Najmee, and Shaykh Muqbil, challenge them to bring evidences. Allah says,
قُلْ هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَـٰنَكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ
Say, “Produce your proof if you are truthful.”
And these slanders and declaring people to be innovators they alleged the brothers of and being unable to bring tangible evidences, they are the ones known with always throwing tantrums and vomiting oppressive vituperations. Below are screenshots of how they refer to scholars as Tolotolo (Turkey) and they referred to their brothers as Munharifun (Deviants). How miserable!
These Musa’fiqah are empty barrels who have nothing to offer, and they want to ascend to leadership and fame, so they engineered these cheap propagandas and campaigns to split you from those who are benefiting you.
Look at the Da’wah of those whom they are referring to as Sa’afiqah and their Da’wah and see the difference. Look at Shaykh Abdullah Al Bukhari, Shaykh Arafaat bn Ḥasan al-Muḥammadī, Shaykh Abdullah bn Silfeeq Adh Dhafiree, look at how these individuals are constantly benefitting people, can you compare them with Ashraf Bayoumi and other controversial individuals they claim to be following? Look at the Da’wah of Salafi Publications (SPUBS) in the West and the Da’wah of the faceless individuals they claim to be following in the West, do you not see the immense differences? Look at our brothers here in Nigeria, brothers at Pristine methology and Arrisaalah Publications, check their channels, see how much they are striving to connect people with scholars by organizing tele-links and translating audios and statements of scholars, can you compare them with the worthless Da’wah of the Musa’fiqah that is not known except in the time they want to cause fitnah, crises, chaos and splitting?!
Dear honoured reader, what is upon us is to return back to Senior scholars at the time of fitnah and we do not follow the unknown trolls who deceive people by saying senior scholars are too old, the senior scholars do not know what they know and they claim that those who follow scholars upon evidences are blindfollowers and scholars’ worshippers. Allah says,
وَإِذَا جَآءَهُمْ أَمْرٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْنِ أَوِ ٱلْخَوْفِ أَذَاعُوا۟ بِهِۦ وَلَوْ رَدُّوهُ إِلَى ٱلرَّسُولِ وَإِلَىٰٓ أُو۟لِى ٱلْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لَعَلِمَهُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْتَنۢبِطُونَهُۥ مِنْهُمْ وَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ لَٱتَّبَعْتُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا
When there comes to them some matter touching (public) safety or fear, they make it known (among the people), if only they had referred it to the Messenger or to those charged with authority among them, the proper investigators would have understood it from them (directly). Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of Allah upon you, you would have followed Shaitan (Satan), save a few of you. [Nisaa’:83]
Scholars have explained the above verse regarding the importance of returning back to Senior Scholars at the time of Fitan and Nawāzil, we should study the haqq with the scholars and we should stand by it. Turn a blind eye to those statements that diminish the status of the scholars, those lines are known with people who later deviated, Safar and Salmān also claimed that they know what the likes of Shaykh Ibn Baaz do not know, when they were about to deviate. When people followed scholars upon the issues on Hajūri and Halabi, the followers of those deviants also referred to them as scholars’ worshippers. These are indeed old tricks. Be firm upon the truth, baarakallahu feekum, if anyone spams your inbox with unwanted messages of cheap propaganda, don’t waste time before using the block button. Baarakallahu Feekum.
May Allah ease our affairs
Mubaarak Olayemi Ismail
Abu Muhsinah
5th Rajab, 1443AH
7th February, 2022
For more Information regarding this topic, check out these links
English: Read here
Arabic:
- Fath al-’Aliyy by Shaykh Fawwaaz al-Madkhali. Watch here
- Al-Ibaanah by Shaykh AbdulIlaah ar-Rifaa’I. Watch here
1. A meeting with Brothers from Tunisia on the 29th night of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1439H
2. Listen to the recitation of the Arabic text with the English translation here.
Listen to the recitation of the Arabic text with the Yorùbá Translation here.
3. The likes Shaykh Nizaar that he had praised before. Check his praise for him here.
4. Listen here
5. Sitting with Shaykh Rabee’ on Tuesday night 15th of Sha’bãn 1439AH
6. Check here
7. Click here. And other videos in that channel, where people were debating with Shaykh Rabee’ on this issue is also an evidence against that blazing Musa’fiqah who claim that the so-called Sa’afiqah locked Shaykh Rabee’ inside and they wouldn’t allow anyone who supports Ibn Haadi to enter the house of Shaykh Rabee’. Ask them that how did these ones debating the Shaykh entered? Did they scale over the fence?
8. Click here
9. Listen here
10. Listen here
11. Sitting at the house of Shaykh Rabee’ on Saturday 11, Jumaadal-Aakhirah 1440
12. Watch Arabic Source Here
