What is the opinion on what some students of knowledge do when they test their brothers with questions like: What do you say about so-and-so?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is your opinion on what some students of knowledge do when they test their brothers, whose outward appearance is righteousness and adherence to the Sunnah, by asking them: What do you say about Shaykh so-and-so? And what is your opinion of the methodology of so-and-so?
Answer:
This is a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Leave this fitnah and encourage people to do good, unless it becomes apparent from one of them, or from some of them, that they are otherwise. In that case, you must advise him. If he accepts, well and good; otherwise, stay away from him.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is your opinion on what some students of knowledge do when they test their brothers, whose outward appearance is righteousness and adherence to the Sunnah, by asking them: What do you say about Shaykh so-and-so? And what is your opinion of the methodology of so-and-so?
Answer:
This is a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Leave this fitnah and encourage people to do good, unless it becomes apparent from one of them, or from some of them, that they are otherwise. In that case, you must advise him. If he accepts, well and good; otherwise, stay away from him.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [477 -560] ما الرأي فيما يفعله بعض طلبة العلم من امتحان إخوانهم بأسئلة مثل: ما تقولون في فلان؟ — youtube.com
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