The Ruling on One Who Denies the Sunnah and Abandons the Prayers
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on one who claims that the Sunnah and the hadiths contain weak and fabricated reports, and is content with the Qur'an while abandoning the Sunnah, and prays only three of the five daily prayers? Knowing that they call themselves "Qur'anists"?
Answer:
The one who denies the Sunnah is a disbeliever; because he is lying to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
And he is also lying to the Qur'an; because the Qur'an referred to the Sunnah[Al-Ahzab 33:21] [Al-Hashr 59:7] He is lying to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) by the statement of the Exalted, "And I have been given the Qur'an and the like of it," and he is lying to the statement of the Exalted, "And We have revealed to you the Book to make clear for the people what has been sent down to them." So this is disbelief; if he denies the Sunnah, he is a disbeliever.
Likewise, the one who denies some of the five daily prayers and does not pray except three, there is no doubt in his disbelief, because he denied what is known of the religion by necessity, which is the obligation of the five daily prayers in the day and night.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on one who claims that the Sunnah and the hadiths contain weak and fabricated reports, and is content with the Qur'an while abandoning the Sunnah, and prays only three of the five daily prayers? Knowing that they call themselves "Qur'anists"?
Answer:
The one who denies the Sunnah is a disbeliever; because he is lying to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
And he is also lying to the Qur'an; because the Qur'an referred to the Sunnah
There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern
لَّقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌAnd whatever the Messenger has given you - take; and what he has forbidden you - refrain from
وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُواLikewise, the one who denies some of the five daily prayers and does not pray except three, there is no doubt in his disbelief, because he denied what is known of the religion by necessity, which is the obligation of the five daily prayers in the day and night.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2400 -2802] حكم من يُنكر السنة ويدع الصلوات - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.