Naming the Innovators and Warning People Against Them
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is there evidence in the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed specific individuals and mentioned them by name that it is permissible to name the innovators and warn people against them?
Answer:
Do you mean in the qunut, or do you mean other than the qunut? The qunut does not specify names, as you have heard. But if people are known to have innovations, and their innovation is a bad one, or their innovation is shirk (associating partners with Allah), then they are warned against by naming them. He says, "Look, so-and-so is such and such; look, he has such and such," so that people are not deceived by him. Yes, if the need calls for naming him, he is named. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is there evidence in the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed specific individuals and mentioned them by name that it is permissible to name the innovators and warn people against them?
Answer:
Do you mean in the qunut, or do you mean other than the qunut? The qunut does not specify names, as you have heard. But if people are known to have innovations, and their innovation is a bad one, or their innovation is shirk (associating partners with Allah), then they are warned against by naming them. He says, "Look, so-and-so is such and such; look, he has such and such," so that people are not deceived by him. Yes, if the need calls for naming him, he is named. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 68 من 148|شرح كتاب المنتقى|الصلاة|في أن قتل الحية والعقرب والمشي اليسير للحاجة |صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (55:28)
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