A shaykh from the villages of "Idlib" named "Sandal" comes to us; I mentioned to him a narration whose authenticity I do not know and where it is found.
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The questioner : A shaykh from the villages of "Idlib" named "Sandal" comes to us; I mentioned to him a narration whose authenticity I do not know and where it is found. When some of the Companions said to a man who was debating with them on a topic, they said to him: "It is likely that stones will fall from the sky upon you. I say to you: The Messenger of Allah said; and you say to me: Abu Bakr and Umar said?!" He strongly rejected this with this hadith in our house, and said: This is an attack on the Companions, and we must not let our fanaticism reach the point where we attack the Companions of the Messenger of Allah.
The Shaykh : Where is the attack on the Companions?
The questioner : I mean, here, when...
The Shaykh : Where is the attack that he claimed against your companion in this hadith?
The questioner : I say to you: The Messenger of Allah said?
The Shaykh : To you, where to you?
The questioner : I mean.
The Shaykh : Who is being addressed?
The questioner : He understood from the hadith that the Companions contradict the words of their Prophet!
The Shaykh : The hadith does not state that the speech directed by Abdullah ibn Abbas was to the Companions; the narration does not explicitly say this. Rather, he said this when he ordered them to perform tamattu' (combining 'Umrah and Hajj with a break between them) from Hajj to 'Umrah, and it was said to him that the Commander of the Faithful had forbidden tamattu' from Hajj to 'Umrah. So he said to them: "I say to you: The Messenger of Allah said, and you say: Umar said!"
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The point is that he is not addressing Umar, nor is he addressing the Companions, but rather he is addressing the followers who had been informed of Umar's prohibition of tamattu' in Hajj, and then they followed him and argued with it. And Ibn Abbas confronted them with the command of the Messenger (peace be upon him) to the Companions to break their state of ihram (the consecrated state of pilgrimage) from Hajj to 'Umrah, from Hajj to 'Umrah.
So the issue is not valid from the start, meaning it is not from the narration that Ibn Abbas addressed the Companions with his words!
The questioner : So if we assume that he addressed the Companions... do we become fanatical for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, but he...
The questioner : The word of the Messenger is not equal...
The Shaykh : It is a great error in the matter that the Companions were not mentioned, but if we assume as you said, then this answer is correct.
The questioner : I say: The Messenger of Allah has said.
The Shaykh : The problem today in reality, which we groan under, and we hope other Muslims will share with us, is that if I say that the Sunnah is such, and this Sunnah contradicts the madhhab (school of jurisprudence) of a certain person, he rises up, gets angry, and shouts. Why? You are making the imam wrong. Well, is enthusiasm for the imam and fanaticism, or is it fanaticism for the Messenger (peace be upon him)? If fanaticism for a person who contradicted a person is considered a disparagement of the other, then the one who is fanatical for the imam is fanatical against the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). If they consider our adherence to the Sunnah an attack on the imam who, at least in what is in our hands, contradicted the Sunnah; then without a doubt, their adherence to what the imam is upon is considered an attack, a fortiori, on the person of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And the difference is very vast. This attack is disbelief itself, and that attack, if we assume it is an attack; what is it? All that is in the matter is that he attacked one of the imams of the Muslims. This is, of course, not permissible, but is it disbelief? Of course not. Moreover, there is no attack in it, but rather it is pure tawhid (the oneness of Allah) which commands following the Messenger without following any other human being.
The Shaykh : Where is the attack on the Companions?
The questioner : I mean, here, when...
The Shaykh : Where is the attack that he claimed against your companion in this hadith?
The questioner : I say to you: The Messenger of Allah said?
The Shaykh : To you, where to you?
The questioner : I mean.
The Shaykh : Who is being addressed?
The questioner : He understood from the hadith that the Companions contradict the words of their Prophet!
The Shaykh : The hadith does not state that the speech directed by Abdullah ibn Abbas was to the Companions; the narration does not explicitly say this. Rather, he said this when he ordered them to perform tamattu' (combining 'Umrah and Hajj with a break between them) from Hajj to 'Umrah, and it was said to him that the Commander of the Faithful had forbidden tamattu' from Hajj to 'Umrah. So he said to them: "I say to you: The Messenger of Allah said, and you say: Umar said!"
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The point is that he is not addressing Umar, nor is he addressing the Companions, but rather he is addressing the followers who had been informed of Umar's prohibition of tamattu' in Hajj, and then they followed him and argued with it. And Ibn Abbas confronted them with the command of the Messenger (peace be upon him) to the Companions to break their state of ihram (the consecrated state of pilgrimage) from Hajj to 'Umrah, from Hajj to 'Umrah.
So the issue is not valid from the start, meaning it is not from the narration that Ibn Abbas addressed the Companions with his words!
The questioner : So if we assume that he addressed the Companions... do we become fanatical for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, but he...
The questioner : The word of the Messenger is not equal...
The Shaykh : It is a great error in the matter that the Companions were not mentioned, but if we assume as you said, then this answer is correct.
The questioner : I say: The Messenger of Allah has said.
The Shaykh : The problem today in reality, which we groan under, and we hope other Muslims will share with us, is that if I say that the Sunnah is such, and this Sunnah contradicts the madhhab (school of jurisprudence) of a certain person, he rises up, gets angry, and shouts. Why? You are making the imam wrong. Well, is enthusiasm for the imam and fanaticism, or is it fanaticism for the Messenger (peace be upon him)? If fanaticism for a person who contradicted a person is considered a disparagement of the other, then the one who is fanatical for the imam is fanatical against the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). If they consider our adherence to the Sunnah an attack on the imam who, at least in what is in our hands, contradicted the Sunnah; then without a doubt, their adherence to what the imam is upon is considered an attack, a fortiori, on the person of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And the difference is very vast. This attack is disbelief itself, and that attack, if we assume it is an attack; what is it? All that is in the matter is that he attacked one of the imams of the Muslims. This is, of course, not permissible, but is it disbelief? Of course not. Moreover, there is no attack in it, but rather it is pure tawhid (the oneness of Allah) which commands following the Messenger without following any other human being.
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