A Refutation of Those Who Claim That Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab Authored a New School of Jurisprudence
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Question:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, and they say that Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab authored a new school of jurisprudence and departed from the four schools of jurisprudence.
Answer:
Say to them, "Bring it to us. Say to them, 'Bring us the school of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab by which he departed from the four schools of jurisprudence. We will believe you if you bring an independent school of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab; then your words will be true. But Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab is a Hanbali, or he acknowledges that he is a Hanbali and that he follows the school of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. However, he follows the stronger position based on evidence. He is not a Hanbali who follows blindly; rather, he takes from the words of Ahmad and others what is supported by evidence from the Book and the Sunnah." Yes.
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, and they say that Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab authored a new school of jurisprudence and departed from the four schools of jurisprudence.
Answer:
Say to them, "Bring it to us. Say to them, 'Bring us the school of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab by which he departed from the four schools of jurisprudence. We will believe you if you bring an independent school of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab; then your words will be true. But Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab is a Hanbali, or he acknowledges that he is a Hanbali and that he follows the school of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. However, he follows the stronger position based on evidence. He is not a Hanbali who follows blindly; rather, he takes from the words of Ahmad and others what is supported by evidence from the Book and the Sunnah." Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الرد على من يعارضون الإنكار على المشركين وعبّاد القبور؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:59)
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