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Are The Salafis From Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah |
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And Shaikh Salih al-Fawzaan was also asked, "Is Salafiyyah a hizb (party)
from amongst the parties. And is ascribing to them (i.e. the Salafis) a
blameworthy thing?"
To which he replied, "As-Salafiyyah (i.e. the Salafis) is the Saved Sect,
and they are Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. It is not a hizb (party) from
amongst the various parties, those which are called "parties" today. Rather
they are the Jamaa’ah, the Jamaa’ah upon the Sunnah and upon the Deen
(religion). They are Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. The Messenger (sallallaahu
alaihi wasallam) said, "There will not cease to be a group from my Ummah
manifest and upon the truth not being harmed by those who forsake them neither
by those who oppose them" and he (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) also said,
"And this Ummah will split into seventy-three sects, all of them in the
Hellfire but one". They said, which one is this O Messenger of Allaah? He
replied, "They are those who are upon what I and my companions are upon
today". Hence Salafiyyah is a group of people (i.e. the Salafis) upon the
madhhab of the Salaf, upon what the Messenger (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) and
his companions were upon and it is not a hizb from amongst the contemporary
groups present today. Rather it is the very old Jamaa’ah, from the time
of the Messenger (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) which inherits (this way) and
continues, and which never ceases to be upon the manifest truth until the
establishment of the Hour, as he (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) has informed
(us)." (Cassette: "at-Tahdheer min al-Bid’ah" second cassette, delivered as a
lecture in Hawtah Sadeer, 1416H).
And Imaam al-Albaani said, "For this reason, we firmly and resolutely believe
that every Jamaa’ah whose foundation is not built upon the Book and the Sunnah
and the manhaj of the Salaf us-Saalih with a complete and comprehensive study
(of that manhaj) which encompasses all the rulings pertaining to Islaam, the
large and the small, the foundations and the subsidiary issues, then this
Jamaa’ah is not from the Firqah Naajiyah that traverses upon the Straight Path
which the Messenger (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) alluded to in the authentic
hadeeth. And when he have also made binding that there are (certainly) many
Jamaa’aat (groups) spread throughout the Islamic lands who are upon this
particular manhaj, then these groups are not sects (ahzaab), rather they all
constitute a single Jamaa’ah whose manhaj is one and whose path is one. And
their being separated in the land is not a separation based upon ideology, creed
or manhaj but one that is based upon their being in different lands, in
opposition to the Jamaa’aat and Ahzaab (sects) who are all in a single land, yet
despite that, every sect rejoices with that which is with it (of ideas and
methodologies)…" (In ‘Fataawaa Shaikh al-Albaani’ p.106-114 compiled by
Ukkaashah Abdul-Mannaan at-Tiyyi)
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