The Ruling on Sending Wills and Hadiths via Mobile Phone
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Question:
This listener, Abdul Karim Badr, says: Honorable Shaykh, messages are being circulated via mobile phone. Some of them contain fabricated hadiths, while others say, for example, “Seek forgiveness so many times and send it to others,” and they warn against not sending it. One such message says that a person who did not send it was struck by a calamity in his person or wealth, or it says that if you do not send it, you are being stingy toward Allah and His Messenger, and the like of this. What is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding such messages?
Answer:
It is obligatory to reject these messages and to express disapproval of them, because the superstitious and the innovators have used mobile phones as a means to promote their religious innovations and superstitions. Therefore, it is obligatory to be wary of them. Likewise, they use mobile phones to promote various hadiths attributed to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). So, it is obligatory to be wary of them and to reject these recommendations coming from them, which aim to mislead people and call them to religious innovations and newly invented matters. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
This listener, Abdul Karim Badr, says: Honorable Shaykh, messages are being circulated via mobile phone. Some of them contain fabricated hadiths, while others say, for example, “Seek forgiveness so many times and send it to others,” and they warn against not sending it. One such message says that a person who did not send it was struck by a calamity in his person or wealth, or it says that if you do not send it, you are being stingy toward Allah and His Messenger, and the like of this. What is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding such messages?
Answer:
It is obligatory to reject these messages and to express disapproval of them, because the superstitious and the innovators have used mobile phones as a means to promote their religious innovations and superstitions. Therefore, it is obligatory to be wary of them. Likewise, they use mobile phones to promote various hadiths attributed to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). So, it is obligatory to be wary of them and to reject these recommendations coming from them, which aim to mislead people and call them to religious innovations and newly invented matters. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/270 — archive.org (15:29)
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