Tuesday 4 October 2022

Adhere To the Truth Even If You Are Alone

 

Imaam Ibn Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) stated:

Muhammad bin Aslam At-Toosee was an Imaam whose leadership was agreed upon in addition to his status as the most compliant with the Sunnah in his time to the extent that he said: “There is no Sunnah of the Messenger that will be conveyed to me except that I will act upon it. And I desired to circumambulate the House (Ka‘bah) riding, but I was unable to do that.”

One of people of knowledge was asked in his time about the great majority that was mentioned in a hadeeth thus: “If people differ, adhere to the great majority.” Then he replied: “Muhammad bin At-Toosee is the great majority.”

By Allah, he spoke the truth. If there is a scholar of the Sunnah in an era who calls to it, he is a proof, consensus and the great majority. He is the way of the believers that Allah will leave whoever leaves it and follows other than it with what he has chosen and admit him into Hell Fire, and evil is that destination.

Source: Ighaathah al-Lahfaan min Masaa’id ash-Shaytaan by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah; translated by Abdus-Samee Abdus-Salaam

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