A Refutation of Those Who Criticize the Call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
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Question:
And here, after the ten [years], this is one of the reports that testifies that some people say that Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) and the imams of the renewed call are, in their view, deluded and extreme in their details. Is this statement correct? Also, they say they doubt the attribution of some treatises to Shaykh Muhammad, such as the treatise *Mufid al-Mustafid* in the history of guidance, and the treatise by Shaykh Ash-Shahid ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan regarding the author's takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever); they doubt its attribution. What is your response to this?
Answer:
Because they are either fortune-tellers or misguided. And the words of Shaykh Muhammad ibn... and this statement... the imams of the call exist, and praise be to Allah, in their books; it is recorded. There is no prostration [in the sense of subservience to them] and there is no shortcoming of Muslims as they claim. Rather, it is the methodology of moderation, the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community, and it exists, praise be to Allah, recorded and written. We return to it, and it becomes clear to us the party of this tyrant or the outburst of this ignorant person who rambles about what he does not know. As for the doubt cast upon the books of the Shaykh and the denial of their correct attribution, this is also all a veiling of the truth. If we were to say that these treatises are not by the Shaykh, then we would say that *Sahih al-Bukhari* is not by al-Bukhari, and *Sahih Muslim* is not by Muslim, and we would say that the books of the scholars are not by them. If this bad belief and this doubt were not limited to Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, but extended to all scholars, [they would say] a word is authentic, and it is not authentic.
The presenter:
We ask Allah for safety.
And here, after the ten [years], this is one of the reports that testifies that some people say that Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) and the imams of the renewed call are, in their view, deluded and extreme in their details. Is this statement correct? Also, they say they doubt the attribution of some treatises to Shaykh Muhammad, such as the treatise *Mufid al-Mustafid* in the history of guidance, and the treatise by Shaykh Ash-Shahid ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan regarding the author's takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever); they doubt its attribution. What is your response to this?
Answer:
Because they are either fortune-tellers or misguided. And the words of Shaykh Muhammad ibn... and this statement... the imams of the call exist, and praise be to Allah, in their books; it is recorded. There is no prostration [in the sense of subservience to them] and there is no shortcoming of Muslims as they claim. Rather, it is the methodology of moderation, the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community, and it exists, praise be to Allah, recorded and written. We return to it, and it becomes clear to us the party of this tyrant or the outburst of this ignorant person who rambles about what he does not know. As for the doubt cast upon the books of the Shaykh and the denial of their correct attribution, this is also all a veiling of the truth. If we were to say that these treatises are not by the Shaykh, then we would say that *Sahih al-Bukhari* is not by al-Bukhari, and *Sahih Muslim* is not by Muslim, and we would say that the books of the scholars are not by them. If this bad belief and this doubt were not limited to Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, but extended to all scholars, [they would say] a word is authentic, and it is not authentic.
The presenter:
We ask Allah for safety.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-071-عقيدة أهل السنة في الإيمان والتكفير|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (59:22)
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