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A United Word From Ahlus-Sunnah in Britain Regarding Yahyah al-Hajooree

Indeed all praise is due to Allaah, we praise Him, we seek His aid and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Him from the evil of our souls and from our evil deeds. Whosoever He guides, there is none to misguide and whosoever He leaves to stray, there is none to guide. I bear witness that there is none that has the right to be worshipped except Allaah, alone and without partners – and I bear witness that Muhammad (salallaahu ‘alaihi wassallam) is His slave and Messenger.

Introductory quote:

This is a brief document outlining the unity of the Salafi Mosques and Islamic Centres in the United Kingdom regarding their position towards the fitnah Yahyaa al-Hajooree (may Allaah guide him and rectify his affair). After reading much of what has been written concerning the disagreement between Yahyaa al-Hajooree and the Salafi scholars, as well as his clear and numerous violations of the Salafi Manhaj, we have taken the position of the Scholars such as `Allaamah Rabee` al-Madkhalee, `Allaamah `Ubaid al-Jaabiree, Shaikh Muhammad bin Haadee and Shaikh `Abdullaah al-Bukhaaree, that he is not to be referred to in affairs of Religion – and one should not travel to Dammaaj (in Yemen) to study with him whilst he is still teaching at that centre [since he has opposed the path of `Allaamah Muqbil bin Haadee al-Waadi`ee]. Furthermore, Yahyah al-Hajooree himself is not considered from the well-grounded scholars. They hold that he is to be warned against, and we take that position also based upon details proofs and evidences. We also hold that one should not study with or enter into disputation with those youth who carry his false methodology to other countries. Upon Yahyaa al-Hajooree and those who traverse upon his methodology from his students and ardent supporters is to fear Allaah, repent to Him, rectify their affair and make clear their return to the truth [from all of their errors] with the same vigor that they made falsehood manifest.

Those who agreed to this document:

Signed and approved: 


المكتبة السلفية والمسجد السلفي، برمنجهام، بريطانيا.
Salafi Publications, The Salafi Masjid and Islamic Centre, Birmingham.
مسجد السنة، برادفورد، بريطانيا.
Masjid as-Sunnah, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
المركز السلفي، منشستر، بريطانيا.
Al-Markaz as-Salafi, Manchester.
مسجد الفرقان، ستوك، بريطانيا.
Masjid al-Furqaan, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
مسجد السنة، كرانفورد، لندن، بريطانيا.
Masjid as-Sunnah, Cranford, West London.
مسجد دار السنة، شيبردز بوش، لندن، بريطانيا.
Masjid Daar as-Sunnah, Shepherd’s Bush, London.
المكتبة الأثرية، شرق لندن، بريطانيا.
Al-Maktabah Al-Athariyyah, East London
مركز دار التوحيد، ووليش، جنوب لندد، بريطانيا.
Markaz Dar at-Tawheed, Woolwich, South London
الدعوة السلفية، كردف، ويلز، بريطانيا.
The Salafi Da`wah, Cardiff, Wales.
مركز معاذ بن جبل، سلو، بريطانيا.
Markaz Mu’aadh bin Jabal, Slough, England.
مسجد الهدى، بولتن، بريطانيا.
Masjid al-Huda, Bolton, Lancashire.
المركز السلفي، لفبورة وليستر، بريطانيا.
Al-Markaz as-Salafi, Loughborough & Leicester
المركز السلفي، ريدنج، بريطانيا.
Al-Markaz as-Salafi, Reading, Berkshire
نور الإسلام، توتنهام، بريطانيا.
Light of Islaam, Tottenham, London
مركز دار التوحيد، أكسفورد، بريطانيا.
Markaz Dar at-Tawheed, Oxford

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Our Salaf: Abu Ubaidah said. ”There is no red or black skinned person amongst you….”

Thaabit Al-Bunaanee said: Abu Ubaidah said, ”O people! Indeed I am a person from Quraish. And there is no red or black skinned person amongst you who considers me to be more fearful of Allaah than him, except I wish that I am like him (because he humbled himself by considering me more virtuous) [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 1/81]

Shaykh Rabee’: We have remained patient for 7 years, [with Yahya al-Hajoori]

Excerpts:

  • They (Yahya and his followers) are waging a war against the Salafis and Salafiyaah, and the people of innovation are relaxing and watching. Is this from good manners!?

 

  • We have remained patient for 7 years, whilst letters and complaints have reached us. And now you have to force him to change his ways. If he carries on upon his ways, it will cause an incomparable fitnah.

 

  • I have advised him many times, sometimes I advise him for two and half hours. He doesn’t listen! He promises but he doesn’t fulfill his promises. May Allaah bless you, and his students are extremists [ghulaat], with an extremism that has no equal.

 

  • Take the position of men with regards to him. He has harmed the people of Salafiyyah. There is no one more harmful than Yahya. Only Dammaj is left [considered Salafi] and all the centers are under the feet [nothing] except Dammaj.

 

  • Did he [Yahya] rebuke it*? Did he openly free himself from this speech? No! You people applaud him when he arrives at this extremism.

 

  • By Allaah, we have not seen this type of extremism from the people of innovation that we see from his students.

 

  • By Allaah, I am holding back from comparing him to some of the innovators that I have refuted in the past. All we hear is ‘Imam al-Thaqalayn…an-Nasihul Ameen [the sincere adviser]

 

  • Tell him that he is only a student and not an Alim. He is not a sincere adviser; he is not an Imam of anything. Tell him that he is just a student; tell him to fear Allaah and to join his brothers hand in hand – his brothers of Ahlul Sunnah. Tell him to leave this extremism and evil behaviour.

 

  • They heaviest thing on the scales on the Day of Judgement is good manners, so tell him to teach his students good manners and to have good manners himself. He will not get anywhere without it.

 

  • Student of Damaaj: “O’ Shaykh all that we have heard from you is praise for him. You called him and praised him…”Shaykh Rabee ibn Hadee al-Madkhalee: “By Allaah! Listen to me, by Allaah, I did not say this except that he claimed to have abandoned everything that he said and in order to bring him closer to us, and cause him to become gentle. But all we witnessed up until today are lies, deception and extremism. By Allaah, you see the extremism of the students there. There are no manners with them whatsoever. Go back and tell them this from me.

 

Read the full document here: http://www.salafitalk.com/threads/1541-Shaykh-Rabee-We-have-remained-patient-for-7-years-with-Yahya-al-Hajoori


* in reference to the poet calling him “Imam al-Thaqalayn”

 

The levels of the scholars–A trial for the emotional and hasty youth!

Imaam Ibn Hibbaan reported in Al-Majrooheen from Amr Ibn Muhammad An-Naaqib that he heard a man asking Imaam Wakee Ibn Jarraah a question, saying: ”Do you know the hadeeth of Sa-eed Ibn Ubaid At-Tanaaqosee transmitted on the authority of Shabi, about a man who performed hajj for another person and then perform hajj for himself?”  Imaam Wakee asked him, saying: ”Who narrated the Hadeeth?” He said: ”It was narrated by Wahb Ibn Ismaa-eel.”  So Imaam Wakee said: ”Wahb is a righteous man, but the affair of hadeeth is dependent on knowledge of the condition of its narrators and this has its men.” [End of Quote: This incident was related by Shaikh Abdullaah Bukhaari in At-Taleeqaat Ar-Radiyyah alal Mandhoomah Al-Bayqooniyyah Lesson 2]

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Therefore, it is important that we return to the scholars in order to place everyone in their rightful place.  Inshaa-Allaah, this is the safeguard from exaggeration or falling short in this affair.  And Allaah knows best.

Our Salaf: Sufyaan Ath’Thawree-I fear that the Ummah…….

Khalaf Bin Tameem (rahimahullaah) said: I saw Ath-Thawree (i.e. Sufyaan) at Makkah and many (people gathered around him or came to him); so he said: To Allaah do we belong, I fear that Allaah has made this Ummah to be lost when the people are in need of the likes of me. [Siyar 7/275]

And whenever he (rahimahullaah) was told that he has been seen in a dream, he would say: I know myself more than those who see me in a dream. [Siyar 7/252]

Manhaj, Principles of the Salaf, Attacking Ahlus Sunnah and Misconceptions Addressed – Ustadh Aboo Tasneem

  • From the principles of the salaf 2: Attacking & discrediting Ahlus sunnah is an attack on the sunnah… pic.twitter.com/q2NBEH4ZTK
  • The shortcoming of many of the youth concerning principle 2 ‘Attacking and discrediting Ahlus Sunnah…’ pic.twitter.com/cDtPQnptVN
  • Addressing A Misconception concerning principle2: Is discrediting the one who attacks Ahlus sunnah fanaticism? pic.twitter.com/SnqvnuR4tA
  • Another Misconception: That Allegiance and enmity is in no way associated with the abandonment of the innovator! pic.twitter.com/tBKUpsNCBP

An Excellent Trait of Al’Allaamah Saaleh Al-Fawzaan (may Allaah preserve him)

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy

”We (i.e. some members of Ikhwaan Al-Muslimeen in Saudi) used to know of the Shaikh’s Zuhd and the little attention he gave to the lies of the liars or the slander of the slanderers; so we did not have a way of approaching him, so as to say to him: ”Such and such person says this about you;” because he did not give importance to it.”

[Source: See last two lines in the post on this link: http://www.sahab.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=136672]

We ask Allaah to grant us Tawfeeq to follow the footsteps of the Scholars of Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jamaa-ah, for indeed they are the inheritors of the Prophets.

[1] The Blessed Saudi State-Al’Allaamah Saaleh Al-Fawzaan (may Allaah preserve him)

All praise is due to Allaah, and may peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family and all his companions. To proceed:

This country-the land of the two noble sacred mosques- to which the performers of Hajj and Umrah come to every year for pilgrimage to the noble kabah, due to the saying of Allaah (The Most High):[ وَلِلَّهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ حِجُّ الْبَيْتِ]—[ And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka’bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah], which is the Qiblah of the Muslims in the western and eastern parts of the earth. He (The Most High) said:[ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنتُمْ فَوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرَهُ] [And wheresoever you people are, turn your faces (in prayer) in that direction]; meaning: The sacred house, and in the (land of these two sacred mosques are the places in which) the revelation descended, the places of origin of the Messenger ship of [Muhammad (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam)] and the heart of the Islamic world.

This is a blessed State—the State (under the authority) of the family of Saud; the State of Islamic Monotheism and in it the pure Islamic Legislation is implemented, enjoining good and forbidding evil is established, and in it is found continuous knowledge sessions to teach the sciences of the Islamic Legislation, the language sciences and the technical sciences. This State provides service to the two noble sacred mosques (i.e. takes care of them), it gives high regard for the safety of those who perform Hajj and Umrah and those Muslims who come to them by Allaah’s tawfeeq. It spends in establishing the Islamic call in (Saudi) and in the Islamic world. It spends generously in assisting the needy and distressed Muslims in every place and plays a role in solving the problems of the Muslims. Indeed, this State was established upon the legislated Islamic oath of allegiance—preserving unity, carrying out the (divine) legislated Islamic punishments against criminals and corrupters with that which preserves the Religion, honour, wealth, safety and stability, since there can be no safety without unity and there can be no unity without ruler ship, and there can be no ruler ship without listening to the (ruler) and being obedient to him. Ruler ship is made binding by the oath of allegiance of the people of authority and not by way of western elections….

To be continued Inshaa-Allaah

http://www.sahab.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=136407

[2] Take the position of men against Shaikh Yahyah–Shaikh Rabee and Shaikh Abdullaah Al-Bukhaari Speak about Shaikh Ubaid

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy

 

Al-Allaamah Rabee Bin Haadee Al-Madkhali (may Allaah preserve him) said:

”By Allaah Ubaid is an Imaam in Salafiyyah” [1433AH—Hajj This Year] [source: http://www.sahab.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=134490]

 

Shaikh Abdullaah Al-Bukhaari (may Allaah preserve him) said:

*None utters this speech about Shaikh Ubaid that he is an enemy of the Sunnah except a person who is an enemy of the Sunnah.  The one who says this about Shaikh Ubaid is deserving of this description.  May Allaah wage war against the utterer of this speech and may he receive what he deserves.  This is a lie and pure wickedness.  Baarakallaahu Feekum, none repeats or utters this speech except a man who is captivated (in evil) and is an impudent one.
*Who agrees with Yahyah Al-Hajoori in abusing Shaikh Ubaid that he is misguided and deviated?! By Allaah none utters or agrees with this speech except a misguided deviated person.  This is wickedness, lies and manifest slander.

*The speech of Yahyah Al-Hajoori against Shaikh Ubaid and the Mashaa-yikh of Ahlus Sunnah—By Allaah it is the falsest of falsehood; rather it is from the wickedest of wickedness, and none agrees with it except a deviated man.

*He (i.e. Al-Hajoori) has no supporting evidence nor any manifest proofs; rather he only has idiotic and foolish affairs; conjecture, lies, transgression and defamation.  And to Allaah will the disputants be gathered (on the Day of Judgment).

*By all means this one (i.e. Al-Hajoori) is neither a sincere adviser nor trustworthy.  The one who utters this (i.e. these vile attacks against Shaikh Ubaid) is neither a sincere adviser nor a trustworthy one.  What advise and trustworthiness is in this (i.e. these vile attacks)?! We seek Allaah’s protection from being forsaken– (i.e. left to our own devices). [End of Quote: Source: Al-Ijaabatul Bukhaariyyah Alal As-ilati Indunoosiyah]

 

And Allaah knows best

To be continued…Inshaa-Allaah

 


See Links for statements of the scholars about Shaikh Ubaid (may Allaah preserve him)

http://www.salafitalk.net/st/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=32&Topic=11862

http://www.salafitalk.net/st/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=32&Topic=11369

http://www.salafitalk.net/st/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=32&Topic=12090

http://www.salafitalk.com/threads/88-Shaikh-Muhammad-bin-Haadee-Defense-of-Shaikh-Ubaid-NEW

http://salafitalk.net/st/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=6&Topic=9301