Taking directly from the Book and the Sunnah in matters of creed
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view of the one who says that every Muslim must take his religion directly from the Book and the Sunnah, even in matters of creed? This is because there is disagreement among people in understanding the Book and the Sunnah, and each of us is only required by what is in the Book and the Sunnah? I ask for clarification of this matter, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
This is good. The one who has the qualification, who has the qualification, to sit in the circle of Imam Ahmad, or Malik, or Abu Hanifah, or the mujtahid imams, may Allah bless them, he takes from the Book and the Sunnah. But the one who does not have the qualification, he does not take directly, because he does not have the qualification. How can he take from the Book and the Sunnah when he does not have the qualification for deriving rulings, and knowing the abrogating and the abrogated, the absolute and the restricted, the general and the specific? It is not permissible for him to take from the Book and the Sunnah. Rather, he must take from the statements of the Salaf and the statements of trusted scholars where the evidence is apparent. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view of the one who says that every Muslim must take his religion directly from the Book and the Sunnah, even in matters of creed? This is because there is disagreement among people in understanding the Book and the Sunnah, and each of us is only required by what is in the Book and the Sunnah? I ask for clarification of this matter, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
This is good. The one who has the qualification, who has the qualification, to sit in the circle of Imam Ahmad, or Malik, or Abu Hanifah, or the mujtahid imams, may Allah bless them, he takes from the Book and the Sunnah. But the one who does not have the qualification, he does not take directly, because he does not have the qualification. How can he take from the Book and the Sunnah when he does not have the qualification for deriving rulings, and knowing the abrogating and the abrogated, the absolute and the restricted, the general and the specific? It is not permissible for him to take from the Book and the Sunnah. Rather, he must take from the statements of the Salaf and the statements of trusted scholars where the evidence is apparent. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب تفسير التوحيد وشهادة أن لا إله إلا الله — islamhouse.com (57:58)
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