Speaking about the reputations of scholars when they fall into errors

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, if some scholars make errors that are not in matters of creed, is it permissible to speak about their reputations and accuse them of religious innovation, open sinfulness, and disbelief?

Answer:
Error is of two types: error in creed or error in jurisprudential issues. The error that occurs from some scholars is either in creed or in jurisprudential issues that are subject to independent legal reasoning.
As for error in creed, it is not permissible to remain silent about it. It must be clarified and refuted. After advising the person involved, if he stops, he is advised so that perhaps he will retract. Perhaps he will retract, meaning the first level is advising him if possible, so that perhaps he will retract, and the matter does not need to go beyond that. If that is not possible, for example, if he cannot be consulted or advised, then the error that came from him is clarified with the intention of advising the Muslims, not with the intention of attacking this person, but with the intention of advising the Muslims so that they are not deceived by this claim.
As for if the error is in jurisprudential issues that are a field for independent legal reasoning and acceptance or rejection, then the matter is easy. Yes, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If a judge exercises independent legal reasoning and is correct, he has two rewards; if he exercises independent legal reasoning and makes a mistake, he has one reward. It is not permissible for us to attack the one who makes a mistake in a jurisprudential issue or to belittle him, because he is a scholar who exercised independent legal reasoning, and this is what his reasoning led him to. Many of the imams may make mistakes in some of their independent legal reasoning, and this does not diminish their virtue, their status, or their love in the hearts. Because they exercised independent legal reasoning and made a mistake that is forgiven, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, and he has one reward.
But with this, we do not take the error; we pray for his mercy and build upon it, saying this is a scholar who exercised independent legal reasoning and this is what his reasoning reached, and we pray for his mercy and build upon it, but we do not take the error; we take the correct ruling in jurisprudential issues, which is what is supported by evidence, without belittling the scholars or accusing them.
Or attacking their status in gatherings is not permissible. If we did this, no scholar of Islam would be safe. Malik ibn Anas (may Allah have mercy on him), Malik ibn Anas, the Imam of the City of Migration, said: We are all one who rejects and one who is rejected, except the one in this grave, meaning the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
A person is a place for error, but in jurisprudential issues, the matter is, praise be to Allah, easy, and the evidence is clear. We take what becomes clear to us as being in accordance with the evidence, and we leave what contradicts the evidence, but with respect for the person and excusing him for what happened to him, because it was due to independent legal reasoning. Yes. This question, meaning the answer to it was given previously by his Eminence. He says: There are some people, I and Allah and them, who have no praise for the scholars and strike at each other's words. This was answered previously and in our last answer. Yes.