8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

madhâhibi ’l-Islâmiyya, some people, who dissented from the
Hanbalî madhhab in the fourth century after Hegira, called
themselves Salafiyyîn. Abu ’l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzî and other
scholars in the Hanbalî madhhab, too, by proclaiming that those
Salafîs were not the followers of Salaf as-sâlihîn but were the
owners of bid’a, belonging to the group of Mujassima,
prevented this fitna from spreading. In the seventh century Ibn
Taimiyya waged this fitna again.” [1]
The lâ-madhhabî have adopted the name ‘Salafiyya’ and call
Ibn Taymiyya ‘The “great imâm of Salafîs’. This word is true in
one respect since the term ‘Salafî’ had not existed before him.
There had existed Salaf as-sâlihîn whose madhhab was Ahl as-
Sunna. Ibn Taimiyya’s heretical beliefs became the source for
the Wahhâbîs and other lâ-madhhabî people. Ibn Taimiyya had
been trained in the Hanbalî madhhab, that is, he had been
Sunnî. But, as he increased his knowledge and reached the
grade of fatwâ, he took to self-sufficiency and began to assume
superiority to the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna. The increase in his
knowledge brought about his heresy. He was no longer in the
Hanbalî madhhab, because being in one of the four madhhabs
requires having the beliefs of Ahl as-Sunna. A person who does
not have the beliefs of Ahl as-Sunna cannot be said to be in the
Hanbalî madhhab.
The lâ-madhhabî take every opportunity to vilify the Sunnî
men of religious duty in their own country. They have recourse
to all kinds of stratagem to impede their books from being read
and the teachings of Ahl as-Sunna from being learned. For
example, a lâ-madhhabî person, mentioning a true scholar’s
name said, “What’s a pharmacist’s or a chemist’s business in
religious knowledge? He must work in his own branch and not
meddle with our business.” What an ignorant and idiotic
assertion! He thinks that a scientist will not have religious
knowledge. He is unaware of the fact that the Muslim scientists
observe the Divine Creation every moment, realize the
Creator’s Perfect Attributes that are exhibited in the book of
Creation, and, seeing the creatures’ incapability compared to
Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Infinite Power, continuously perceive that Allâhu
[1] In this book of 340 pages, several bida’ of the Salafîs and the Wahhâbîs,
their slanders about Ahl as-Sunna and the replies to them are written in
detail. It was printed in Damascus in 1398 A.H. (1978).
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