Shaikh Rabee': Saying Jarh wa Ta'deel 'has ended' Is a Crime Against Islaam!!!
Shaikh Rabee' "Saying Jarh wa Ta'deel 'has ended' Is a Crime Against Islaam!!!; al-Jarh wat-Ta'deel will remain so long as falsehood remains"
Question: Some of the
scholars have mentioned that the science of Jarh wa Ta'deel was specific to the
time period of narrators, but now in the year 1420 there is nothing called Jarh
wa Tadeel, so what is the correct position concerning this?
Shaikh Rabee' bin Haadee al-Madkhalee (hafidhahullaah Ta'aala) answered: "This - I swear by Allaah - is mockery! This is from the things that make you laugh and make you cry, that speech such as this should be said. When the bid'ah increases and the disbelief increases and the Secularists, the Communists, the Raafidah, the Sufis and the misguided groups increase, they hinder Islaam, and the people are given free rein to do as they like and they can say whatever they like and there is no one to say 'this is wrong' or 'this is evil' nor anyone to say 'this one is a trouble maker' and 'this one is a doer of good'?
This is a loss and a lack of understanding of the religion of Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic. So the Salaf (Pious Predecessors) authored books in 'Aqeedah and - in these books - they criticized the people of innovation and misguidance, and they called them by name - the individuals and the groups. So has this ended also?
And we say: verily the innovators that were present during the time of the Salaf, they were contested and criticized and their misguidance was made clear, and now it's 'not permissible,' 'haram,' now speaking against the people of bid'ah is 'haram' and speech against the secularist is 'haram' and speech against the heretics and speech against the Rafidah is 'haram' and speech against the Sufis is 'haram'?
Shaikh Rabee' bin Haadee al-Madkhalee (hafidhahullaah Ta'aala) answered: "This - I swear by Allaah - is mockery! This is from the things that make you laugh and make you cry, that speech such as this should be said. When the bid'ah increases and the disbelief increases and the Secularists, the Communists, the Raafidah, the Sufis and the misguided groups increase, they hinder Islaam, and the people are given free rein to do as they like and they can say whatever they like and there is no one to say 'this is wrong' or 'this is evil' nor anyone to say 'this one is a trouble maker' and 'this one is a doer of good'?
This is a loss and a lack of understanding of the religion of Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic. So the Salaf (Pious Predecessors) authored books in 'Aqeedah and - in these books - they criticized the people of innovation and misguidance, and they called them by name - the individuals and the groups. So has this ended also?
And we say: verily the innovators that were present during the time of the Salaf, they were contested and criticized and their misguidance was made clear, and now it's 'not permissible,' 'haram,' now speaking against the people of bid'ah is 'haram' and speech against the secularist is 'haram' and speech against the heretics and speech against the Rafidah is 'haram' and speech against the Sufis is 'haram'?
Ma`sha`Allaah! Is this a
call to uniting the religions or what?
We seek Allaah's forgiveness and
repent to Him. This is misguidance. It is obligatory that Jarh wa
Ta'deel remain to defend the religion of Allaah and the Sunnah of the Messenger
of Allaah (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) until the Day of Judgment. And
to withdraw the swords is more than that, in order to make the statement of
Allaah the Blessed and Exalted the highest, and to defend against disbelief and
falsehood.
And the Salaf used to say: Verily defending the Sunnah is better than fighting with the sword, and defending the Sunnah is done with Jarh wa Ta'deel.
And the Salaf used to say: Verily defending the Sunnah is better than fighting with the sword, and defending the Sunnah is done with Jarh wa Ta'deel.
And in line with this, I say to you, verily Al Hakim - (Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah al-Hakim al-Nishaburi) may Allaah have mercy upon him - in his bookKnowing the science of Hadith said, and his speech is the truth: 'Jarh wa Ta'deel is two sciences: the science of jarh (criticizing) and it is an independent science.' And this refutes the false minhaj of mentioning the good with the bad. The science of jarh is an 'independent science,' and for this reason many of the Imams wrote books with just jarh (criticizing) in them. They specified these books with Jarh such as Bukhaaree in his book The Weak Narrators and An-Nasaai in his book Al Matrukeen (The Abandoned in hadeeth).
And Ibn Haban in his book Al Majruheen (The Criticized) and Ibn Adi in his book Al Kaamil and in a like fashion Adh-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajr and other than them. Many others have authored works specifically in the field of criticizing because it is an independent science. And this breaks the back of [refutes] the minhaj of Mawazanah, mentioning the good along with the bad, and it breaks the back of the people who follow this minhaj.
And other Imams authored books about reliable narrators, such as the reliable narrators by Al-Ajali and the reliable narrators by Ibn Haban. Have you understood this? If the Salaf believed that Jarh wa Ta'deel was two separate sciences, then how can there be mentioning the good along with the bad? One of them would author a book specifically in criticizing and there would not be in it any opening for mentioning the good along with the bad. Have you understood this? May Allaah bless you.
Jarh wa Ta'deel remains until the Day of Judgment, so when the people want to benefit from this scholar, we say, 'this is a noble scholar upon the Sunnah,' giving him recommendations - may Allaah bless you.
And 'this scholar is a Rafidi,' 'this one is a Sufi;he says that Allaah is one with His creation,' 'this one is a secularist,' 'this one is a communist hiding behind Islaam.' This one is like this, and this one is like that.
It is obligatory upon you to make this clear. This is an obligation and it is from Jihaad, and it will not cease, and it is not specific for the narrators.
And when at-Tirmidhi mentioned in Al Ella - the one that is at the end of his Sunan - he said this knowledge, meaning that the people were condemning the Scholars who criticize hadeeh, he said surely so and so has been criticized and so and so has criticized Ma'bad Al Juhni and so and so has criticized Jaabir Al Jafy, therefore he began with the people of bid'ah. Why? Because this was to criticize his bid'ah - not because he was a narrator.
Then the Salaf authored books to refute the people of bid'ah, like we have mentioned and they did not specify Jarh wa Ta'deel for the narrators only. The innovator is never from the people of hadith. The Mu'tazali, the Jahmi, the Murji' and the rest of them have no connection to the narrators; rather they are innovators so they were criticized.
So from where do they say that the door for Jarh wa Ta'deel has been closed?...
And in a like fashion is the slander of the one who says, 'Jarh wa Ta'deel has ended and its doors have been closed.' This - I swear by Allaah - is a crime against Islaam. Fear Allaah, my brother! Don't block the door of Jarh wa Ta'deel. And the people of truth and the people of the Sunnah will not listen to you."
