Sahaba - The Blessed

weapon. That this sect is a non-scientific assortment of distorted
facts and events reinforced with some misinterpreted Koranic
verses and Prophetic utterances manifests itself in the so-called
book Husniyya, one of their recent publications, in the booklets
which they sometimes hand out to uneducated people at the
entrances of mosques, and in the statements they make. Naming a
few valuable books is one of the stratagems that they use to make
their absurdities believable, although they cannot cite a single line
from those authentic books. When uneducated people hear the
names of those books, they believe these people. Their absurd and
unsound slanders, and the true tenets of belief explained in the
light of Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs by the scholars of (the
right path called) Ahl as-Sunnat, are collated under the
adjudication of authentic documents in the book Ashâb-i-kirâm
(Sahâba ‘The blessed’), by Sayyid Abdulhakîm Effendi
‘rahmatullâhi ’aleyh’. During the printing of this book, a list of the
biographies of the two hundred and sixty-five celebrities
mentioned in the book was appended in alphabetical order for the
purpose of informing our dear readers about them. The Turkish
original, Ashâb-i-kirâm, of our book Sahâba ‘The Blessed’ was
printed in 1982 for the first time. Allâhu ta’âlâ has now blessed us
with the lot of realizing its twenty-second edition, (and also this
first edition in English). [1]
May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless Muslims with reading this book with
unbiased attention and thereby learning the true path!
Muslims on the earth today have parted into three groups. The
first group are Muslims who follow the path led by the Ashâb-ikirâm.
They are called the Ahl as-Sunnat, or the Sunnî Muslims
(Sunnites), or the Firqa-i-nâjiyya (the group to be saved from
Hell). In the second group are the enemies of the Ashâb-i-kirâm.
They are called Râfidîs, or Shiîs (Shiites), or Firqa-i-dâlla
(heretical group). The third group are inimical towards the Shiites
as well as towards the Sunnites. They are called Wahhâbîs, or
Nejdîs, which originates from the Arabian province Nejd, the
birthplace of the heresy. The third group are also called the Firqai-mel’ûna
(the accursed group). Indeed, it is written in our
(Turkish) books K›yâmet ve Âh›ret and Se’âdet-i Ebediyye, (and
also in our publications in English, such as Advice for the Muslim,
and in the fourth chapter of The Sunnî Path,) that they call
[1] This English version does not contain the biographies.
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