A discussion on the importance of preachers’ attention to the Sunnah and the clarification of the misguidance of those who call for attention to the Qur’an alone, or what they call the Quranists.

The Shaykh : .
As for what follows: The best of speech is the speech of Allah, and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and the worst of matters are their innovations, and every innovation is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire. As for what follows, I spoke to you recently about the point that Islamic preachers must begin their work with, and we spoke at length in detailing that what must be started with is purification and education. We emphasized purification repeatedly and summarized it by saying that purification must be for this Islam in which the true and the false have become mixed, and the right and the wrong have become intermingled. This purification must be based on the Book and the Sunnah. I believe that no Muslim disagrees with this, namely that purification should be based on the Book and the Sunnah; there is no disagreement on that, except regarding some modern and very modern sects that have emerged in this present age. I personally do not rule out that they are among those sects created by the colonizer, whether Eastern or Western, and his purpose in doing so is to increase ... among the Muslims because of this new sect that he formed and infiltrated. I mean a sect called today the Quranists. This sect began spreading its call among the ranks of Muslims, and this call is based on casting doubt on the Sunnah and its authority, and it is based solely on relying on the Noble Qur’an. In my opinion, if they had been able to cast doubt on the Muslims even in ... the Noble Qur’an, that it is the revelation of the Lord of the Worlds to the heart of his noble Messenger, they would not have held back. But when they found that casting doubt on the authenticity of the Noble Qur’an was an impossible matter, they resorted to attacking the Sunnah in terms of its authority and its establishment. In reality, attacking the Sunnah is an attack on the Noble Qur’an itself, and this is due to their wickedness and their plotting, because they know for certain that in the Noble Qur’an there are many verses that explicitly command obedience to the Messenger and in them is the return to the Book of Allah and another thing: the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). This is in the case of His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: And since the return to Allah, the scholars have unanimously agreed, both the Salaf and the Khalaf, that the intended meaning of the return to Allah is the return to His Book. This is because it is self-evident that any person, no matter how close to Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, is unable to return to Allah, except for some of the chosen and righteous messengers. And since the matter of prophethood and messengership has ended, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: For this reason, the scholars unanimously agreed that the intended meaning of the return to Allah is the return to what Allah revealed, namely His Book and His Qur’an. Likewise, they unanimously agreed that the intended meaning of the return to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) is that they returned to Allah and the Messenger, meaning to his Sunnah. In the verse, there is an omitted addition: they returned to Allah, meaning to His Book, and to the Messenger, meaning to his Sunnah. This verse is among His many verses that explicitly state that the disagreement that may occur among Muslims, or between two Muslims, has no solution except by returning to two things: the Book of Allah and the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). It is not as these innovators of today claim, that the obligation is to return to the Qur’an only. These people, in their misguidance of the people, call themselves Quranists, claiming affiliation with the Qur’an unjustly and falsely. If they had truly returned to the Noble Qur’an, they would have found in it those texts that command returning to something additional to the Qur’an, namely the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) or his noble Sunnah. Therefore, it is not possible to imagine a true Muslim who believes in the Qur’an truly, yet denies the authority of the Sunnah, because by doing so, he would not be acting upon the Qur’an which he claims to use as evidence. For this reason, the Muslims, with their different schools of jurisprudence and sects, from the time Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, revealed the Noble Qur’an to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) until today, have agreed on the obligation of using the Book and the Sunnah as evidence, not just the Qur’an alone. The Muslims unanimously agreed on this and did not differ; rather, they differed on whether there are other sources that must be referred to in addition to the Qur’an and the Sunnah. As for the Sunnah, praise be to Allah, the Muslims did not differ that it is the second source after the Noble Qur’an for Islam. So these people who claimed to be Quranists began spreading among the people that the Noble Qur’an is the only reference for Islam and for the legislation of Islam. And this, in reality, means casting doubt on the Qur’an itself, because the Qur’an was brought by our Messenger (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) as revelation from Allah to him. And this noble Prophet has a characteristic that distinguishes him from all other people, which is that he is protected from speaking ... Blessed and Exalted is He: ... the Qur’an that the Messenger (peace be upon him), everything he spoke ... is from the revelation of the heavens. And this is not only because of the Qur’an ... on speaking words that have no benefit, but rather the truth is that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, in this verse intends that ... For this reason, the hadiths came one after another, confirming that this ... in their comprehensiveness and generality, with the speech of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). His saying (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) in ... the last of the hadiths, meaning I do not find any of you reclining on his bed, on his couch, speaking words ... and saying, "This Book of Allah is only our reference; what we find in it as lawful we make lawful, and what we find in it as forbidden we make forbidden." There is nothing in the Qur’an that contradicts the Messenger (peace be upon him) among the Muslims, so he said: Indeed, the Messenger of Allah forbade what Allah forbade. Why? Because when he speaks and when he utters, he only utters what is revealed to him, as you heard in the previous verse. So this is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) informing his Lord, before the emergence of this sect by about fourteen centuries, that there will be people who claim that Islam is only the Qur’an, and by this claim they deny the Qur’an itself, let alone the hadith of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and his Sunnah.