Abu Taymiyyah – Q&A Imam Asks Should One Be Hanafi Or Salafi & The Sh Muqbil Issue
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Okay. This is, from our Sheikh.
So I'm gonna go through what he requested
me
to answer.
Like,
I think I'll start with this one.
There is actually, there's, like, 3 questions, and
I'm gonna that are very similar to one
another. I'm gonna try and answer it.
I'm from a Hanafi background, and I've been
brought up with Hanafi rulings in regards to
Salah.
As I've been growing up, I've started to
question why there are different opinions on things
such as raising hands
after and before. I want to follow the
basic way of Quran and Sunnah. Mohammed supposed
to be certain which opinion is correct or
the most correct.
Then the second question is there is a
certain stigma to most people who call themselves
Salafis
in regards to criticizing the 4 imams
of the main madhahibs.
If I base my actions on the Quran,
the Sunan I choose from the most authentic
Hadith,
to follow the Sunan, does that make me
a salafi?
And the third one is my whole life.
I've always been asked. Are you Hanafi? Are
you this? Are you that
if I follow Hanafi, but there are some
things that I don't agree with inside the
Hanafi, what do I do?
Like, I'm gonna try and give a holistic
comprehensive
responsiveness.
We have the Quran and the Sunnah, right?
And then we have the understanding of the
companions, the Tabi'ayn, what's about Tabi'i.
In a nutshell,
this is what
Salafiya is.
Quran Sunnah, upon the understanding of the 3
golden generations,
Do you have to call yourself Salafi? And
we discussed I think it was it was
in Southampton, right? The ultimate is, and then
the video went viral.
Right?
And I got some hate for it as
well because I was talking about
sectarian
Salivism
and also
adhering to the way of the Salif. And
I brought what Ibn al Hazaimin mentioned, how
we should be more focused on what?
Labeling yourself
or following it up with your actions.
Quran sunnah,
right?
Upon the understanding of companions,
the insuring that our actions are in line
with that.
That's what we should be more concerned about
than us labeling ourselves. Today,
today my brothers and my sisters, and I
don't shy away from saying this.
Right?
That Salafism
has become very sectarian.
And that's not
everyone, not everyone.
But the way that people have started treating
it,
is like my team against your team.
Right?
And this is why Ibn Khathaimir Ahmadullah alaihi
was
worried about. Hence why he started speaking against
it. If you wanna call yourself Salafi that's
fine as Ibrahim mentioned
There's no shame in that. However,
and I'm going to keep reiterating this,
be worried more about your actions being in
line with Quran sunnah
and the
understanding of the companions. Now,
second part of the answer.
Is there anything wrong with following my dad?
I'm a hambari guys.
You're
shafi'i
right?
No.
I
in fact encourage people if they want to
become Hanafi, no problem whatsoever,
right? There's nothing wrong with having a madhab.
These are these 4, Imam Abu Hanifa
who is the oldest out of all of
them and the one who came before all
of them,
right?
Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi'i,
Imam Ahmed, right? They were great scholars. Wallai'i
took so much inspiration from Al Imam Abu
Hanifa.
Especially something that really touched me was that
Imam Abu Hanifa
would send gifts to those who would wrong
him,
Alright.
Recently, I wrote that on a
on a on a on a post and
I and I did the same because his
brother
anyways, it was inspiration from Alimam Buhaneef Adarhmatullah.
I'm gonna say SubhanAllah, so many things that
Alimam Buhaneef speaks about, it blows me away.
It really does.
To cut a long story short, my brothers
and my sisters, there's absolutely
nothing wrong
with following a madhab, especially if you come
from a certain background, like you're from Somalia,
this is a discussion that always happens, right?
They come to Medina and they're predominantly Hanbali.
We don't encourage people
now take back a different madhab and then
start causing problems in your home city.
Everyone there is shafi'i and then you're the
only one with a different madhab and it
don't make sense. Even some of the scholars
of the past would say, whoever has a
different madhab to their people, he's going to
end up worshiping Allah by himself.
He's going to end up what worshiping Allah
by himself
because everyone you know has their own way
of looking you know the the different
Like, also what I disagree with my brothers
and my sisters is, you know, when someone
says,
I don't want to follow a. I'm going
to follow Quran sunnah.
My response to them always is, were the
4 madhab
based on the Torah and the injeed?
Was it based on the Bible and also
the Torah?
Why are you talking as if this form
right are completely void of the Quran and
sunnah?
They tried the utmost best to find the
right answer when,
right
assessing
all of these statements from Allah and the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So don't come to me with this kind
of rhetoric, my friend.
Does that make sense?
Right? They try the utmost best to get
the right answer.
And you know what's Alib? Sometimes you you
hear an individual saying, oh, has
the has the Quran and the sunnah with
them or the dillil.
Why are we talking as if the haqq
is with him and then everyone else or
the other madahim is like they had no
daleel, they had no evidence.
I honestly think it's double standards,
Right?
Imam Ahmed, Imam Malik, Imam Buhaneef, Imam Shafi'i,
my brothers and my sisters.
Right? They were mountains of knowledge. And at
times I would prefer to take
their view, the classical view over maybe a
contemporary view.
Right? But every scholar, right, my brothers and
my sisters,
tried the utmost best to find the right
answer,
right, and of course we take into consideration.
There are times when I see Shaker al
Uthaimin,
right, he extrapolated a view on evidences and
it's pretty strong,
right? The classical scholars, they may have a
view that it's pretty strong.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters? So now this issue of raising your
hands
in the salah.
Is it sunnah? Is it not sunnah?
Right?
According to the majority of the scholars, they
hold it to be a sunnah. Even there's
a line of poetry in another muljali,
which is a Hambili alfiya,
969 is a poetry.
Right? To raise your hands in a salah.
The prophet would raise his hands 3 times
in the salah. And then there's another narration
that he did a 4th time,
right? When coming up from ruku,
of course also the beginning raise your hands,
when going down to ruku and coming back
up and also after the first the shahood.
The sun of the mess in salal is
we don't say that you leave out your
salal is bathroom
and we have an evidence for it, right?
Hence why we do it. The other madaim,
my brothers and my sisters, they may have
taken a different view for example on a
a related matter. That is maybe because
a hadith may have reached them, but they
saw that the one who narrated the hadith
was weak.
Hence why they rejected it,
right? So when someone says to me now,
Imam Abu Hanif rejects a hadith,
you got a problem.
I don't believe any Muslim when you bring
him a hadith he's just gonna reject it
and say that it's false. The Abidun,
right? Ibn Uthaimi has a whole book called
Uplifting the blame,
right? From the great scholars of the past
And excuses and reasons as to why they
may have taken a different view to a
clear cut hadith. There are reasons for it,
Right? Maybe he didn't reach him. He's got
so many reasons. So we respect and honor
our
Imma.
We show appreciation my brothers and my sisters,
be careful how you refer to them,
right?
Was just Abu Hanifa. What do you mean
it was just a man Abu Hanifa?
Right? Put some respect on his name.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters? They don't
to the Deen.
They don't want to to the Deen.
So you if you are for example now
following Hanbali like I'm a Hanbali.
I was studying the malhab and I'm still
studying the malhab
and then sometimes
you know the evidences
elsewhere are perhaps maybe stronger. Imam Ahmed has
more than one view in a position, how
did he come about?
How did he come about they have more
than one view? Because of all of the
hadith
they started coming across later on. So this
way
right?
None. And then sometimes, you know, there is
a different view. Maybe Ma'am Shafi'i
might be with Al Imam Abu Hanifat Rahmatullah.
Does
that make sense?
Like Imam Abu Hanifat Rahmatullah his
position with regards to paying Zakat on
jewelry
is the most stronger view. The majority of
the scholars,
they hold a different view that you don't
need to pay zakat on it.
Right?
And there are evidences that strengthen the view
that you need to pay what? Zakah
on your jewelry and that's the most safer
option.
That's the more safer option.
But that's of course you know
maybe you'll start seeing this at a later
stage.
But at the beginning as an Amin, as
a commoner,
we advise you stick to a madhab. It
makes life so much more easier. If you
want to follow the aal hadith way, I'm
not saying that you can't, well I do
it. But it will be a lot longer
and a lot more complicated. Well I am
not against it, but this one is so
much more easier. You have an imam, a
malhab
that's gone through what can find, that's gone
through refining and different stages,
right? And then there was
a view that was extrapolated as a stronger
view. So it's a lot more easier and
majority of the people they're not going to
reach that level. So as Allah told you,
Does that make sense? And I just want
to make this very, very clear.
Right?
It is not a mainstream view to be
against the madahib.
No, we love them,
right?
In fact, Wala at times my blood boils
when someone starts what? Throwing them under the
bus as if they're nobody's.
None.
My brothers and my sisters, this is now
the conclusion.
I want to deal Insha'Allah Ta'ala with some
of the critics
and some of the things that I've been
criticized for.
Alright.
Ola Ira Adi my brothers and sisters, it
is very, very clear, very very clear that
there is a witch hunt.
That people are trying to bury me.
Issues that are so old, right, that I
mentioned
maybe a year and a half ago
when I first came back from El Medina.
I just came back from El Medina. One
of the first videos that we record was
a podcast with Sheikh Abdulwa Hasidim sent in
his Medina College,
right? Normally there would be a rehearsal of
the questions that he's going to ask. We'll
go through that and then it would be
recorded where we go through these questions.
A question was asked that wasn't necessarily part
of
a questionnaire that was, meant to be discussed.
Right? And it was the issue of Sheikh
Mukbir bin Hadidil Wa Dahi Hafidullah Ta'ala with
the rahas in his book and I used
the word elimination.
This was a year and a half the
video was watched by over 70,000.
Right? No one said anything but now when
it came to dragging Abu Taymiyyah into the
ground, burying him, let's bring out whatever we
can find.
Right? And they had a big hoo on
the social media.
Right?
And in one of your videos it appeared
that you were belittling him
or that you were speaking ill of him.
Alright brothers and sisters, if somebody now wants
to misinterpret
what I say,
they could do that in so many ways.
Why would I insult
or
speak ill
of a great imam, Sheikh?
Right?
And then quoting him on his sha'a.
Just because
there is maybe something that the shaykh done
or said which we see to be incorrect.
Right?
And it's not me, I'm just someone who
quotes.
You have other scholars who may have disagreed
with the shaykh in a particular book that
he authored.
Why would I now then come and insult
a shaykh?
Or Or how can that be interpreted as
someone insulting a shaykh? Come on, brothers. This
is this is absolutely ridiculous.
And I think they're referring to,
the Imam Abu Hanifa video.
Right? An imam Abu Hanifa, and I'm going
to double down on this. He's an imam.
He's an imam. And when I said that
I would blast anyone
who says anything about his fiqh, of course
that which was very very clear is
someone tries to write off completely that he
didn't know fiqh. And of course, every imam,
whether it's Imam Abu Hanifa, whether it's Imam
Shafi'i, Imam Ahmed,
They're all going to have errors
as human beings.
You know Surajid?
It's okay for some to say, oh, Imam
Abu Hanifa was wrong. Just like that to
dismiss it.
Uh-huh?
But when someone says that about their shaykh,
people get upset.
Shahmuhul binhandilwadiya
imam brothers and my sisters. He was an
imam and a yaman. I graduated from his
institute,
studied under his khalifa.
Right?
Haifa,
you can't point him in the same category
as il Imam Abu Hanifa Darhamatulullah Alaihi.
And I use the word elimination.
What I'm going to do my brothers and
my sisters, I'm going to take this kalimah
back.
Even though even though my brothers and my
sisters, a brother swore by Allah, swore by
Allah,
that he read on Sahabnet,
which is a
website that is no longer functioning properly.
The Sheikh Rabeer himself
advised Sheikh Mookbir to get rid of his
book.
He swore by Allah to me.
Sheikh Rabi al Mithkali,
this book which collects the negative statements of
the scholars of the past pertaining to Al
Imam Abu Hanifa tarahmatullahi
He told him to get rid of it.
Right? This book is actually banned from being
printed in Saudi Arabia. This is something that
no one denies,
right? And even then I'm going to take
back the spread.
Take back the sword, my bad Islam says,
I'm gonna take it back.
And I'm going to say what Sheikh Salih
al Fozhan said.
When it was said to him, why are
you saying Allah arhamu? Why are you doing
tarahum
on Imam Abu Hanifa? And you could see
the shaykh got very irritated and he said,
Abu Hanifa at Imam Munah. Imam Munah. Imam
Abu Hanifa is our imam.
Whoever wants to be pleased can be pleased.
Whoever wants to be upset can be upset.
Right?
And I'm also going to, InshaAllah Ta'ala, take
a moment out to mention some of the
statements of Imatay Mirhamatulai a'lay pertaining to Imam
Abu Hanifa.
Right. Imatayi Mirhamatulai a'layhi fee alintasarali
a'ali a'athar.
He says,
He mentions Imam Abu Hanifa alongside all of
them. Wakayruhum
and otherna inna manabudufir umumilummati waqubilaqulhum.
The only reason why they excelled, he says.
And their statements were accepted because of them
being in accordance to the hadith of Sunnah.
Wama'tukulli
mafi mentakulli mafihi.
And from those who have spoken about,
The only reason why they were spoken about
this maybe because they didn't
fall into agreement with some of the Hadith
in the sunnah of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam They may have disregarded it and there
are reasons for it. Number 1, because the
hadith didn't reach them.
Right?
Or
maybe because of the meaning
that this hadith carried was actually weak to
them. Oh, or maybe
because there was another hadith
that they had which they thought was more,
right, which was more
suitable in this situation than maybe the other
narration.
In another place, Imil Hajj Sunnah, he said,
Right? The Imma, the scholars and the Imams
of Hadith and Tafsir and also Tafsawaf and
Fikh they are the 4 great Imams of
fiqh
right A'imatul arba'ah and those who follow them
also he says elsewhere in Mil Hajj Sunnah
and Nabuiyah,
The Imams of Islam that are known for
their imamship.
In the deen, Manik Thawri Azaire laid inside
Shafi' Ahmad Waishar Wabi Hanifa Du Abu Yusuf.
SubhanAllah. This is what he said about them.
Right?
Also my brothers and my sisters,
Sheikhul 17 Imamtulay AA says annal imit al
mashhurina kulluhum
or kullahum.
Used between a sifat alayta'ala, all of the
great well known imams, They affirm the sifat
of Allah.
They
say that the Quran is a speech of
Allah. It is not created by your Quran
Allah
that Allah
will be seen in the hereafter.
This is the madhab of the
Because even though Imam Hanifa, people opposed him
and they differed with him on issues. Right?
And they refuted him for it. However, you
cannot doubt Falayisari wahadun fei fiqh.
Right? When it comes to his fiqh and
his understanding and his knowledge.
It goes, that which has been attributed to
him and they want to tarnish his image.
By attributing these points,
these are lies.
Undoubtedly they are that which is
fabricated. Ibn Abd al Bari also says, kanafil
fakhi imaman hasanaray
walqiyaslatifalistikharaj
jayidaddihinhadarfham
also
minuulaykalatba'
it says in Utamia.
Right? Al ima
great scholars,
right?
Meaning the likes of Imam Abu Hanifat Rahmatullahi
alaiheem There are those
who are ascribed to them
in matters of fiqh
from the people of innovation.
Those who oppose them in the matters of
the uswold, the fundamentals of our religion, even
though these great Imams are free from the
likes of these people.
Right?
And then he says that
Because this is very well known. At the
time, you had many of the Jhammites, the
Qadr the Qadris,
Qadariya,
Al Mu'tazirah and other in them. They would
what?
Ascribe to the method of a member Hanifah
Rahmatullah a'layn matters of fiqh.
Right?
Even though him and those who followed him,
right from his Ashab like Abu Yusuf they
were the furthest away
from
what they believed and what they were upon.
May the curse of Allah be upon. Amr
ibn Ubayd was from the Mirtazilites. Right. Wafataalal
nasih al kalam ifihada. He's the one that
opened his door for the people and he
being exposed to this kind of rhetoric.
Right? This is one of the things that
we thought we'd quickly mention InshaAllah Ta'ala.