Ahad Hadiths, the Ruling on One Who Abandons Acting on Them, and Boycotting a Brother
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Question:
The questioner says: I love you for the sake of Allah. What is an ahad hadith? Does one who abandons acting on an ahad hadith become a disbeliever? And what is Your Eminence’s opinion of one who boycotts his brother and declares him an innovator without the slightest reason? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Whatever is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), whether it is from the ahad or from the mutawatir, it is obligatory to accept it, believe in it, and act upon it in matters of creed, transactions, and all affairs, because it is a report about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
Part of the meaning of the testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah is believing in what he reported (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, it is obligatory to believe in the authentic hadiths from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is not permissible to doubt them. As for one who abandons acting upon them, there is a distinction here depending on the act he abandoned, and there is a distinction in that. Yes, he is judged to have erred, and he is judged to be misguided. As for judging him as an apostate or a disbeliever, that does not require a distinction or knowledge of the type of act he abandoned or what his excuse is. Yes.
The questioner says: I love you for the sake of Allah. What is an ahad hadith? Does one who abandons acting on an ahad hadith become a disbeliever? And what is Your Eminence’s opinion of one who boycotts his brother and declares him an innovator without the slightest reason? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Whatever is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), whether it is from the ahad or from the mutawatir, it is obligatory to accept it, believe in it, and act upon it in matters of creed, transactions, and all affairs, because it is a report about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
Part of the meaning of the testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah is believing in what he reported (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, it is obligatory to believe in the authentic hadiths from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is not permissible to doubt them. As for one who abandons acting upon them, there is a distinction here depending on the act he abandoned, and there is a distinction in that. Yes, he is judged to have erred, and he is judged to be misguided. As for judging him as an apostate or a disbeliever, that does not require a distinction or knowledge of the type of act he abandoned or what his excuse is. Yes.
Source
التحذير من الغلو في التكفير — islamhouse.com (1:04:53)
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