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in the Messenger, his belief, Seerah (life story), worship, fast, prayer, Hajj, Laws and his legislative decrees. If these people are asked about any of the above, their answer will be issued based o*!n weaker even fabricated Hadiths!! Or they may answer with a Mathhab (a school of though and a way of understanding the religion according to a certain scholar). If their answer is in opposition to a correct Hadith, and if they are reminded with this fact, they do not change their decision. Nor do they accept to adhere to the truth because of some doubts that they raise, or because of their rules and regulations. We will mention some of these rules later o*!n in this book, God willing.
This disease, that we explained above, has become widespread in the Muslim world today. It even touched the majority of religious magazines and books. Very few refer to the Quran and the Sunnah when issuing Fatwas. The majority depend o*!n o*!ne of the four Mathaheb (schools of thought of Abu Hanifah, Malik, Ash-Shafi'i & Ahmad). Occasionally, they refer to other than these four Mathaheb for Fatwa, but o*!nly for certain interest of the Muslim nation, so they claim. To these people, the Sunnah has become a forgotten matter, unless this certain interest requires referring to the Sunnah!!
An example of this is the attitude of some of these people concerning the Hadith by ibn Abbas that, at the time of the Prophet, if o*!ne divorces his wife three times in the same time, that it was considered o*!ne divorce o*!nly. These people considered this Hadith as a long ignored Mathhab!! Later, they adopted it (because of Masla'ha [certain necessity of the Muslim nation] and not because it was the Sunnah!), but after they were fighting against it and against who calls to it!!
The Sunnah has Become a Stranger to Al-Khalaf
What proves that the Sunnah has become a stranger in this later generation is the following. o*!ne famous Islamic magazine was asked if Allah gathers animals o*!n the Day of Judgment. Their answer was: "Imam Al-Alosi said, in his transliteration of the Quran: 'There is no Nass (text) from the Book or the Sunnah concerning this matter that we can use to confirm that other than mankind and Jinn, of animals and carnivores, will be gathered (on the Day of Judgment).'"
This was the answer to the above question! This answer is amazing, and self-evident to how people of knowledge, let alone the ignorant, ignore knowledge of the Sunnah. There are many correct Hadiths concerning this matter. They all attest that animals and carnivores will be gathered and will be judged against each other. o*!ne of these Hadiths is. "You (people) will give back each his dutiful right (on the Day of Judgment). Even the sheep that does not have a horn will be able to revenge (harm done to it by) the sheep that has a horn!" [Muslim]. (Then all animals will be made dust). As ibn Amr said, this is when the Kafir says, as mentioned in the Quran: "Woe to me! Would that I were dust. [78:40]
Rules of Al-Khalaf That They Substituted for the Sunnah
What are these rules and regulations that Al-Khalaf introduced and substituted for the Sunnah? To answer this question, we say that these rules can be summarized by the following:
First: Some scholars of Al-Kalam said that Hadith Al-Ahad is not valid in matters of'Aqeedah (matters of belief and the unseen)!! As a consequence, some Du'at (those who propagate Islam) of today repeated this rule, saying that matters of 'Aqeedah (belief) cannot, and even said that it is Haram (impermissible) to, be taken from Ahad Hadiths!!
Second: There are some Mathaheb that established some rules concerning the above matter (of Hadith Al-Ahad):
a -- They preferred Qiyas (to establish a Fatwa concerning a new matter by comparing this matter to a similar o*!ne that has a ruling in Islam) to the Ahad Hadith! [Al I'lam & Shar'h Al-Manar].
b -- Ahad Hadith is rejected if it is in opposition to (their own) established rules and regulations!! [Al-I'lam & Shar'h Al-Manar].
c -- Rejecting the Hadith that introduces a decree that adds to a rule in the Quran. They claim that since the Sunnah does not perform Naskh (replacing or overruling) over the Quran, then this Hadith must not be accepted. If we accept it, they claimed, then this will constitute a Naskh!! [Shar'h Al-Manar & Al-I'hkam].
d -- They claimed that when a general rule is opposed by a specific rule, then the specific rule is overruled. Therefore, they claimed that general rules of the Quran cannot be restricted by Ahad Hadiths [Shar'h Al-Manar & Irshad Al-Fu'hul].
e -- They accepted the way people of Al-Madinah conducted their religion as dominant over the correct Hadith!!
Third: Taqleed (following a certain Mathhab in all matters of religion) and accepting it as a Mathhab (path) and religion.
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