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The Book Of
Forty Hadeeth Regarding The
Madhhab Of The Salaf
By Shaykh ‘Alee bin Yahyah AbHaddaadee
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Translated by
Abu Khadeejah AbdubWaahid
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Contents
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Author’s Introduction Page 1
1. Sincerity Of Intention Page 4
2. The Excellence Of Inviting [Mankind] To Page 5
Allaah, The Most High
3. Seeking Knowledge Is Obligatory And A Page 6
Rebuttal Of The One Who Belittles It's Station
And Flees From It
4. The Obligation Of Conveying Knowledge Page 7
Acquired From The People Of Knowledge
5. The Obligation Of Beginning With The Page 8
Singling Out Of Allaah Alone For Worship
When Inviting To Allaah
6. The Obligation Of Warning Against Worship Page 10
Of Others Besides Allaah And The Paths
Leading To It
7. The Method Of Inviting To Islaam Is Page 11
Legislated [And Not Open To Personal
Judgements]
8. A Warning Against The Destroyed Sects Page 12
And A Clarification Of The Reality Of The
Saved And Aided Group (ALJamaa'ah)
9. The Nobility Of The People Of Hadeeth Page 14
(AhluLHadeeth)
10. The Excellence Of Knowledge And The Page 15
Scholars And A Refutation Of Those Who
Belittle Them
11. Knowledge Precedes Deeds And Inviting To Page 17
Islaam. Whoever Does Not Begin With
Knowledge Corrupts More Than He Rectifies
12. Not Everyone Who Displays Aid For The Page 18
Religion Is Accepted As Truly Aiding Until It Is
Known That He Is A Person Of Sunnah
13. The Obligation Of Warning Against All Page 19
Innovations And A Clarification That There
Are Not To Be Found Any Innovations In The
Religion That Are Good
14. Warning Against The Callers To Page 21
Misguidance And Encouragement To Adhere
To The Main Body (ALJamaa'ah) Of The
Muslims And Their Ruler In Times Of
Tribulation
15. Love And Hate For The Sake Of Allaah Page 24
16. Abandoning The People Of Innovation If Page 25
Abandoning Them Brings About Benefit
17. The Obligation Of Hearing And Obeying Page 29
The Muslim Rulers Even If They Are
Tyrannical And Oppressive
18. The Punishment For The One Who Rebels Page 32
Against The Muslim Ruler
19. The Forbiddance Of Abusing The Muslim Page 33
Rulers
20. Supplication For The Rulers Of The Page 34
Muslims
21. How The Subjects Are To Advise The Page 36
Muslim Ruler
22. The Obligation Of Seeking Permission From Page 38
The Muslim Ruler For Jihaad. And The
Obligation Of Seeking Permission From One's
Parents Before Embarking Upon A Righteous
Journey
23. Leaving Off Giving Fatwa, Teaching And Page 39
Delivering Admonitions If One Is Commanded
By The Muslim Ruler To Withhold, Whilst It is
Known That There Are Others In The Ummah
Who Are Fulfilling That Role
24. The Obligation Of Forbidding The Evil And Page 42
Its Levels
25. Using Gentleness In Forbidding Evil Page 43
26. That Which Is Obligatory Upon The Page 44
Scholar In Openly Declaring The Truth If He
Does Not Fear Harm Upon Himself
27. A Warning Against Resembling The People Page 45
Of The Book
28. A Warning Against Fanaticism To Page 46
Individual Opinions, To Men And To The
Madhhabs For Indeed They Are From The
Characteristics Of Predslamic Ignorance
(Jaahiliyyah)
29. Sanctity Of The Blood Of Muslims Page 47
30. The Forbiddance Of Reviling And Fighting Page 49
A Muslim
31. The Forbiddance Of Fighting The Muslims Page 52
In Other Than Defending Against
Transgression In The Earth
32. The Danger Of Declaring A Muslim To Be Page 53
An Unbeliever (Takfeer) Without A Right
33. The Establishment Of The Highness Of Page 54
Allaah Above, Distinct And Separate From His
Creation. And A Rebuttal Of Those Who
Believe That Allaah Exists Within His Creation
34. A Muslim Is Not To Be Declared An Page 55
Unbeliever Due To Him Committing A Major
Sin So Long He Does Not Hold That Sin To Be
Permissible, Making It Halaal For Himself. A
Rebuttal Of The Khawaarij Sect
35. Censuring The Khawaarij Page 57
36. Sins Reduce Eemaan (Faith). A Rebuttal Of Page 59
The Murji’ah
37. Affirmation Of The Pre-Decree Of Allaah Page 61
And A Rebuttal Of The One Who Denies It
38. Censure Of The Qadariyyah Page 63
39. Affirmation Of Free-Will For The Servant. Page 65
A Rebuttal Of The Jabariyyah Sect
40. Eemaan In The Names And Attributes Of Page 66
Allaah. A Rebuttal Of The Jahmiyyah. And
The Mu'attilah Sects
41. Love Of The Companions Of Allaah's Page 68
Messenger. Believing That They Are All
Trustworthy. The Forbiddance of Exaggerating
With Regard To Any Single One Of Them.
And A Censure Of Anyone Who Opposes
These Matters
42. The Danger Of Lying Upon The Messenger Page 70
43. A Warning From Narrating A Hadeeth If It Page 71
Is Known To Be A Lie
44. Encouragement Upon Good Character And Page 72
Manners
45. Adhering To The Book And Sunnah Page 73
In the name of Allaah, Most Merciful, Bestowcr Of Mercy
Author's Introduction
All praise is due to Allaah, and may the prayers, salutations and
blessings of Allaah be upon His slave and Messenger
Muhammad, his family and his Companions and whosoever
follows them in goodness. Then to proceed:
So these are forty seven established1 Hadeeths2 I have gathered
in clarification of the important fundamentals connected to the
Salafi} Manhaj (Methodology). I sought, in accordance to my
1 Meaning: all of the four levels of an acceptable Hadeeth: "An
'authentic' Hadeeth which is 'authentic' in it of itself (as-Saheeh li
dhaatihi) and a Hadeeth which is 'authentic' due to other than it (as*
Saheeh li ghairihi). And a 'good' Hadeeth which is 'good' in it of itself (ah
Hasan li dhaatihi) or a Hadeeth which is 'good' due to other than it (Ah
Hasan li ghairihi)."
2 Translators note: A Hadeeth is a reported statement, action or tacit
approval of Allaah's Messenger, may the peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him. The four levels stated above are four levels of authentic
Hadeeths.
3 ••As-Salafiyyah" is an attachment or affiliation to the 'Salaf. And
'The Salaf' are the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah
(salallaahu 'alaihi wassallam) and the Imaarns of guidance (may Allaah
be pleased with them) from the first three generations, those whose
goodness Allaah's Messenger (salallaahu 'alaihi wasallam) bore witness
to in his statement:
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ability, the summarized texts so they would be easy to memorise.
And I gave each of them a title in accordance with the intent of
the treatise.
I am grateful to the noble Shaykh, the great Scholar, Saaleh bin
Fawzaan Al-Fawzaan, may Allaah preserve him, in that he
honoured me in reviewing this work twice. He conferred upon
me valuable benefits, may Allaah put them in the scales of his
good deeds. And when I asked him that he write an
introduction, he said:
"I will never place an introduction before the Hadeeth of the
Messenger, may the peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him. The one who does not accept the Hadeeth, nothing will
benefit him in the slightest, he has an illness in his heart."
"The best of mankind is my generation, then those who follow
them, then those who follow them. Then there will come people
where bearing witness of one of them will precede his taking an
oath and his taking an oath will be his bearing witness." [Reported
by Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in the Musruid, and Al-Bukhaaree and
Muslim]
And "The Salafiyyoon [or Salafees]" is the plural of"Salafi'\
an attachment or affiliation to the Salaf, and its meaning has already
preceded above - and they are those who traverse upon the
Methodology (Manhaj) of the Salaf in following the Book of Allaah
and the Sunmh [of the Messenger of Allaah], and inviting to them,
and acting upon them, and they are, due to this, Ahlus-Sunnah waU
Jamaa'ah. See Fataawa AFLajnah Ad-Dadimah (2/165-166). Fatwa No.
(1361).
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These words are a great lesson in veneration of the Prophetic
Sunnah,
Likewise I thank the noble Shaykh, the great Scholar, 'Alee bin
Muhammad Naasir ALFaqeehee, may Allaah preserve him, for
his review. He benefited me with some important observations.
So may Allaah reward him with the best of rewards.
I ask Allaah that He makes (accepts) this treatise purely seeking
His Noble Face, and that He benefits the one who reads it or
memorises it. Indeed He is the best of those being asked and
most generous of those who give.
May the prayers, salutations and blessings of Allaah be upon His
slave and Messenger Muhammad, and upon his family and
Companions.
'Alee bin Yahyah ALHaddaadee.
14th/ 12/ 1422 AH
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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