Excerpts from "Protection for the Salafee"

[Abu.Adam.Jameel]

Bismillah,

[From Their Tricks is Distorting the Meaning of Backbiting]

Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad Bazmool, may Allah protect him, said:

And from the trickeries of some of them is that they say that the Islamic texts, narrations of the Salaf and the statements of the scholars, that fault those who backbite and cause division and separation, apply to the people of the Sunnah, the Salafees.

By doing this, they trick the laymen into believing that the stance of the Salafees against the people of innovation and desires (1) is what is meant by these texts [that mention the blameworthiness of backbiting] (2).

There is not doubt that this is a deceitful trick, which indicates a disgustingness of innerself and a rottenness of intention. (3)

Important Point:

Shaykh al-Islam, Ibn al-Tamiyyah [d. 728 AH], may Allah have mercy on him, said: The conditions for backbiting an open innovator are two: Knowledge and a Sound Intention. (4)

Translated by
Abu Adam Jameel Finch
16th of Ramadhaan, 1432/August 16th, 2011

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(1) [TN]: By clarifying their mistakes openly

(2) Imam Nawawee [d. 676 AH], may Allah have mercy on him, said: Backbiting is permissible pertaining to an open sinner and an innovator. [Riyaadh al-Saaliheen]

(3) Ahmad Baazmool, Protection for the Salafee from The Whisperings and Deceptions of Ali Hasan al-Halabee, 44

(4) ‘Abdul-Salaam al-Suhaymi, Be A Salafee who is Earnest upon the Path, 77