Maalik Ibn Deenaar (rahimahullaah) said:
”It is enough evil for a man that he is not righteous, yet he speaks ill of the righteous people.”
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[Shu’aab Al-Imaan (5/316)]
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Imaam Barbahaaree (rahimahullaah) said: ‘It is not permitted for a man to say, ‘So and so is a person of the sunnah’ until he knows that he combines the characteristics of the Sunnah, so it is not said of him, ‘a person of the Sunnah’ until he combines all the Sunnah.'[1]
Shaikh Saaleh Al-Fawzaan (hafidha-hullaah) commented on the above statement of Imaam Barbahaaree saying:
Do not give recommended to a person and a praise of him, except based on knowledge, lest the people become deceived by your praise of him, whilst he is not what (you have stated about him). So when his real affair and path is clear to you, his knowledge and steadfastness; then you can give him recommendation. As for giving out praise and recommendation whilst not knowing of anything about him, then this is a dangerous recommendation through which the people will be deceived by this person.
Had only those who give commendations to the people stopped at that (i.e. put it in its proper place), then they would not give recommendation, except for one who fulfils the conditions of (receiving) recommendation because recommendation is a ‘Witness’; so, if the recommendation is not correct it will be a false witness.
And concerning the statement of Imaam Barbahaaree: ‘until he knows that he combines the characteristics of the Sunnah’ Shaikh Saaleh Al-Fawzaan commented on the above statement saying: The characteristics of the Sunnah are to be in Aqeedah, Knowledge and adherence to the Salafus Saaleh. But if there is not in him except a single characteristic of the (sunnah), then he is not judged to be from Ahlus Sunnah on the basis of a single characteristic or one thing, so what about the one who does not have anything from that? [End of quote: It-haaful Qaaree Bitta’liqaat Alaa Sharhis Sunnah Lil Imaam Barbahaaree, Vol: 2, page:275-276]
So be mindful of those who utilise these foolish statements in order to hide the other deviations and innovations of their figureheads. Likewise, be distant from the obstinate blind followers—those who carry the slogan of Ikhtilaaf, whilst intending falsehood by way of it and to reject the clear unambiguous knowledge based refutations of the scholars against the figureheads of hizbiyyah, bidah and Tamyee.
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Muhammad Ibn Ubaid At-Tannaafusiy (rahimahullaah) used to say to the people of hadeeth: “Why do not be like Eesa Ibn Yunus (rahimahullaah)? When he (Eesa) used to meet Al’Amash (rahimahullaah), whilst the youth and the Shuyookh were with him, they used to look at his (upright) conduct and manners.
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[Al-Aadaab Ash-Shar-iyyah 2/255]
Qataadah (rahimahullaah) said:
”Indeed, neither did Allaah command His slaves with what He has commanded them due to being in need of them, nor did He prohibit them from what He has prohibited them out of miserliness; rather He commanded them with what is a (source) of righteousness for them and prohibited them from what is a (source) of corruption for them.”
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[Tareequl Hijratayn of Imaam Ibnul (rahimahullaah) 1/219]
وقال: العلم بالكلام جهل
And he (Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:
[learning] knowledge of philosophical rhetoric is ignorance.
قال أبو يوسف: العلم بالكلام جهل والجهل بالكلام علم
Imaam Abu Yusuf (rahimahullaah) said:
“[Learning] knowledge of philosophical rhetoric is ignorance and to be ignorant of philosophical rhetoric is knowledge.”
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[Aqeedah Ash-Shaafi’ee. Page 87. http://al-badr.net/sub/228 ]
قال ابن أبي الحكم: سمعت الشافعي يقول
لو علم الناس ما في الكلام لفروا منه كما يفرون من الأسد
Ibn Abil Hakam (rahimahullaah) said: I heard Ash-shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) saying:
“If the people knew what is in philosophical rhetoric, they would have fled from it, just as they would flee from a lion.”
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[Aqeedah Ash-Shaafi’ee of Al-Barzanjee. page: 87]
Hammaad Bin Zayd (rahimahullaah) said: ”I was with Ayyoub, Yoonus and Ibn Awn, so Amr Ibn Bin Ubaid went past them and he used to be a Mutazili; he gave them Salaam and stopped, but they did not reply to him.”
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[Meezaan Al-I’tidaal 3/274 of Imaam Dhahabi]
Yoonus Ibn Abdil A’laa (rahimahullaah) said, ”I heard Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) saying, ”It is better for a man to be put to trial with everything that Allaah has forbidden except Shirk than looking into (or engaging himself in) philosophical rhetoric; for indeed I have come across affairs from the people of philosophical rhetoric, which I never thought I would come across (i.e. the deviations of the people of philosophical rhetoric).
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[Aqeedah Ash-Shaafi’ee. Page: 86]
Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:
“It is necessary that the students of knowledge do their utmost to increase in seeking knowledge; exercising patience in facing every obstacle and having a sincere intention for the sake of Allaah (The Most High) in pursuit of it; for indeed actions are judged by intention. And they should have a fervent desire for Allaah’s Aid and Assistance because good cannot be reached except by the Help of Allaah.”
Zakariyah As-Saajiy (rahimahullaah) said: Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) used to command (one) to study Fiqh and forbid from argumentation in philosophical rhetoric.
[Aqeedah Ash-Shaafi’ee. Page 86]
Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:
”Whoever wants the dunyah (i.e. a blessed life in this dunyah and not that one seeks religious knowledge for the purpose worldly goods), then upon him is (to pursue) knowledge. And whoever wants the afterlife, then upon him is (to pursue) knowledge.”
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[Source: Aqeedah Ash-Shaafi’ee by Al-Barzanjee (rahimahullaah) Page: 86]
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