Website reference

[Naveed Ashrafi]

Salam brother Waseem. Inshallah I hope this post receives you in the best of health.

I was browsing the internet and suddenly came across this website

www.answering-ansar.org/challenges/100questions/en/chap2.php

In your opinion as a Sunni aalim and as Hazrat Shaikh ul Islam's murid are the questions posted on the named website have any relevance or are they just queries generated from ignorance?

Please give me your honest and studied views.

Jazakallah khair.

Naveed Ashrafi

[Imam]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved and Final Messenger of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa aalihi wa Sallam)


Jazak'Allah for your question. The web site that you have referred to, seems to be a website created by someone who either asserts that they are the true Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jama'ah, or it is by someone who denies the existence of the Ahl al-Sunnah wl Jama'ah totally.


We know that everyone who is affiliated with the Ahl as-Sunnah, produce the famous hadiths such as the one relating to the seventy three sects, and in some narrations, the hadith has extended to say 'Those who are upon my Sunnah, and the way of my Sahaba.' This is just one example, in which numerous narrations are existent. Another hadith states 'Those who are upon my Sunnah, and upon the way of my progeny.' This is also a famous hadith.


We are not concerned with whether a hadith is sahih, mutawatir, hasan, etc. As this is a matter for the muhaddithin and the scholars, who do not deny any of the ahadith, save those which are mawdhu' i.e. those that have been proven by later scholars, to be either forged, subtracted or additioned.


However, what concerns us, is the availabilty of the hadith, which have had no such reprimands, as the person who was asking 'is there any Qur'anic verses or ahadith in relation to this' has proven his ignorance of these ahadith, and also verses from the Qur'an, upon which the Ahl al-Sunnah and their beliefs emerge.


Lack of study in the field of hadith, and other sciences of the Qur'an al kareem renders people to make ignorant claims such as 'no-one has answered these one hundred questions', yet they will be amazed to find that almost fifty percent of the scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah have provided works on this topic, somewhere in their lives, and live by these works, obviously based upon the Qur'an al kareem, and the Sunnah, now whether these people believe in the same Qur'an, and the same books of hadith, (the Qur'an having thirty chapters, and the most authentic hadith books being the six, Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Sunan Abu Da'ud, Ibn-e-Majah, and Nisa'i), is a matter totally different from what we are discussing.


In any event, may Allah the Almighty give us all the tawfiq, to study the Qur'an al kareem, to study the hadith, and act upon them, and may He prevent us from being misguided into other sects, religions, and faiths.



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab



M. Waseem Ashrafi