Taqlīd (blind following) – Fawāids |Qur'ān

The criticism by Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal against Abū Hanīfah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) الحسين بن الحسن المروزى يقول : ذكر أبو حنيفة عند أحمد بن حنبل، فقال: رأيه مذموم وبدنه لا يذكر Al-Husayn ibn Al-Hasan Al-Marwazī said: Abū Hanīfah was mentioned in the presence of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, so he said: “His opinion is blameworthy (madhmūm) and his person is not to be…

The criticism by Imām Mālik against Abū Hanīfah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) Mansūr ibn Abī Muzāhim: I heard Mālik ibn Anas mention Abū Hanīfah, and he spoke of him with harsh words, and said: “He plotted against the religion.” He said: “And whoever plots against the religion is not of the religion.” (al-Sunnah 1/248 – Authenticated by Sh. Muqbil & al-Riyāshī) 2)…

Imām al-Shawkānīs speech on the mawlid (celebrating the Prophet’s birthday)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “I have not found until now any evidence indicating its establishment from [the] Book [of Allāh], nor Sunnah, nor consensus (ijmāʿ), nor analogy (qiyās), nor any legal reasoning/inference (istidlāl). Rather, all Muslims are in agreement that it did not exist in the era of the best generations, nor those who followed…

The meaning of taqlīd (blind-following) and its prohibition from the Qur’ān – al-Qurtubī, al-Shawkānī, al-Uthaymīn, Abū Hayyān

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The meaning of taqlīd Imām al-Qurtubī said: “Al-Taqlīd (blind following), according to the scholars, its reality is accepting a statement without evidence. And it is linguistically derived from qilādat al-ba’īr (the camel’s collar/halter), for the Arabs say: “I put a qilādah on the camel” when they put a rope around its…

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