Is the one who rejects the Sunnah or claims that the Qur'an may have suffered a loss considered a hypocrite?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is the one who rejects the Sunnah or says that the Qur'an may be restricted...
The Shaykh:
...in what...
The questioner:
...says: Is the one who rejects the Sunnah or says that a loss may occur in the Qur'an considered a hypocrite?
The Shaykh:
This is disbelief, not hypocrisy. This is apostasy. We said that the one who says there is a loss in the Qur'an is a disbeliever, may Allah protect us from that, because he is denying Allah in His saying[Al-Hijr 15:9] and denying the consensus of the Muslims. The Muslims have been in consensus from the time of the Companions who compiled the mushaf until our time that this is the Qur'an that was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and that not a single letter has been lost from it and not a single letter has been added to it. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is the one who rejects the Sunnah or says that the Qur'an may be restricted...
The Shaykh:
...in what...
The questioner:
...says: Is the one who rejects the Sunnah or says that a loss may occur in the Qur'an considered a hypocrite?
The Shaykh:
This is disbelief, not hypocrisy. This is apostasy. We said that the one who says there is a loss in the Qur'an is a disbeliever, may Allah protect us from that, because he is denying Allah in His saying
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1938- 4717] هل من يَردُّ السَّنَّة أو يزعم بأن القرآن قد يقع فيه نقص يعد منافقا؟-الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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