Are the Ashariyyah and Maturidiyyah from Ahl al-Sunnah? | Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen

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📌 In this important clarification, Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen explains the definition of Ahl al Sunnah wal Jamaah as mentioned by Shaykh al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. ⚠️ The Shaykh explains that Ahl al-Sunnah are those who hold firmly to pure Islam, free from every impurity and innovation. Based on this definition, he explains why the Ashariyyah, the Maturidiyyah, and those similar to them are not considered from Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jamaah with respect to the innovations they adopted concerning the Names and Attributes of Allah. He then presents a simple and decisive principle: Either the truth is with the Salaf, or it is with those who opposed them. If the truth is with the Salaf, then those who oppose their methodology and creed cannot be described as being from Ahl al Sunnah wal Jamaah. For the Salaf are the people most deserving of this description. 📌 Source (4:53 - End): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bd8F_HrJ2c ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah falsely conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Hadith #Tawheed #Aqeedah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #AhlusSunnah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #Fiqh #Shariah #SeekingKnowledge #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #SalafiDawah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #IslamicGuidance #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Reminder #Knowledge #Truth #Guidance #Muslim #MuslimYouth #ScholarsOfIslam #ScholarsOfSunnah #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #ShaykhFawzan #LajnahDaimah #Bidah #Shirk #Kufr #Iman #Refutation #Sufi #Ashariyyah #Maturidiyyah #Jahmiyyah