Shaykh Rabee Defends Shaykh Muhammad bin Haadee and Shaykh Abdullaah al-Bukhaaree

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Rough Translation
The Correct Position Concerning The Differing Of The Scholars On Jarh Wat-Tadeel

Shaikh Ubaid Bin Abdillaah Al-Jaabiriy [hafidha-hullaah] replies to the questioner who stated:

If I heard the statement of a scholar on cassette or read it in a book regarding a person, that he [i.e. this person] is an innovator, (but) I did not see evidence for that from [this scholar]; is it binding upon me to be cautious of this person and to be convinced that he is an innovator or do I hold back until I find evidence of that?

Shaikh Ubaid replied:

I say, Ahlus Sunnah do not pass judgement against anyone that they are upon Bidah, except (after) being well informed of him and thoroughly examine what he has with him- completely, and being acquainted with his manhaj completely, in totality and in detail. And from this angle, this affair brings two positions to us:

The First Position:

[It is with regards] to the one whom a scholar or scholars have passed a judgement against that he is an innovator, and other [scholars like them from Ahlus Sunnah] did not differ with them. Be perspicacious, I say: others like them from Ahlus Sunnah did not differ with them concerning this [Tabdee against this person], therefore we accept their jarh and their statements [against him], and we are cautious of him as long as a Sunni Scholar passed a judgement against him and disparaged him, and the rest of the [scholars of Ahlus Sunnah of those who are contemporaries, brothers and children of this scholar] did not oppose, then [this scholar] must be agreed with; because this [Sunni Scholar] who disparaged a man has not disparaged him except with an affair that was manifest and established with him upon evidence. This is from the Religion of Allaah, and the one who disparages or commends knows that he is responsible for what he says; he gives a verdict and a judgement by way of it, and he knows that he is held accountable by Allaah [The Most High] before he is questioned by the people.

The Second Position:

If this person who was disparaged by a scholar or scholars and a judgement was passed against him which necessitates dropping him and being cautious of him; (but then) others opposed (these scholars) and gave a verdict of praise of him and that he is upon the Sunnah or other than that of rulings that are in opposition to the disparagement of the (first scholar or scholars), then as long as these (scholars) and those (scholars) are upon the sunnah and are people of trustworthiness amongst themselves, and are people of uprightness with us, then in this situation we look into the evidence and that is why is it said: ''The one who knows is a proof against the one who knows not.''

The one who disparaged someone amongst the people saying that he is an innovator and a deviant (and) brought evidence from the books of the one disparaged or from his audio tapes or from a trustworthy narrator, then it is incumbent upon us to agree with him and abandon the [praises] of those who opposed those who [disparaged this person]; because those who disparaged [this person] came with evidences that are hidden from the others due to a reason amongst reasons, or that the one who praises neither read nor heard from the one who disparaged [this person], rather he based [his judgement] upon what he knew about [the disparaged person] and that he was upon the Sunnah. Therefore, this disparaged person upon whom the evidence is established is [truly a disparaged one] and the proof is with the one who established the proofs.

To be continued.....Inshaa-Allaah