People of Sunnah be Kind to one Another pdf

People of Sunnah be Kind to one Another

PEOPLE OF SUNNAH BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER

Book Contents

• Translator’s Note
• About The Author
• Introduction
• The Blessing of Speech and Expression
• Guarding the Tongue and Speaking Only Good
• Suspicion and Spying
• Kindness and Gentleness
• The Position of Ahl-us-Sunnah Regarding
• the Scholar Who Makes a Mistake: He is Excused,
• and is not Called a Person of Bid’ah, Nor is He Ostracized  
• The Solution to the Current Fitnah of (Tajreeh) Defaming People and (Hajr) Ostracizing Them
• That is Coming From Some of the People of Ahl-us-Sunnah of Our Time

The Position of Ahl-us-Sunnah Regarding the Scholar Who Makes a Mistake:

He is Excused, and is not Called a Person of Bid’ah, Nor is He Ostracized After the Messenger of Allah, no one is free from mistakes.

Therefore, no scholar is free from mistakes. And if a scholar should make a mistake then he should not be scrutinized for it, nor should the mistake be taken as a pretext to disgrace the shaykh or warn against him.

Rather, the rare times that the shaykh was wrong about something are pardoned due to the many, many times that the shaykh was right.

And if the scholar was from the scholars of the past, then we should benefit from his knowledge while being careful not to follow him in his mistakes.

And we should supplicate Allah on his behalf and ask Allah to have mercy upon him.

However, if the scholar or the student of knowledge is still alive, then his mistake should be corrected by utilizing kindness and gentleness, and with a strong desire to see him freed from the mistake and return to what is correct.

Some of the scholars of the past made mistakes in matters related to aqeedah, but despite those mistakes, the scholars and students of knowledge are unable to dispense of their knowledge. Rather, their books are some of the most important references used by those who are busy seeking knowledge, such as the books of Imam Al-Bayhaqee, and Imam An-Nawawee, and Al-Haafidh ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalaani.

Imam Al-Bayhaqee

As for Al-Imam Ahmed ibn Husayn, Abu Bakr Al-Bayhaqee, Imam Adh-Dhahabee said: “He is Al-Haafidh, Al-‘Allaamah, Ath-Thabt, Al-Faqeeh, Shaykh-ul-Islam.”

Imam Adh-Dhahabee also said: “He was blessed in his knowledge and he wrote many beneficial books.”

Imam Adh-Dhahabee also said: “(After traveling in pursuit of knowledge) he remained in his village in order to compile and author books.