The Ruling on Quran Only Hadith Rejectors | Imam Ibn Baz

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📌 In this important fatwa, Imam Abdulaziz ibn Baz explains the ruling on those who claim that the Quran alone is sufficient and reject the Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ. ⚠️ The Shaykh clarifies that the Quran itself commands obedience to the Messenger ﷺ and adherence to his Sunnah. Therefore, whoever rejects the Sunnah is a kafir by the consensus of the Ummah a rejector the Quran. He further explains that those who deny the Sunnah and claim to follow only the Quran are not "Quranists." Rather, they are opponents of the Quran, misguided, and callers to misguidance. He also transmits the consensus of the people of knowledge that the one who denies the Sunnah is a kafir. Allah, the Most High, said: "And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatever he forbids you from, abstain from it." (Surah al Hashr - 59:7) And Allah said: "Whoever obeys the Messenger has indeed obeyed Allah." (Surah al Nisa - 4:80) May Allah grant us steadfastness upon the Quran and the authentic Sunnah as understood by the Salaf. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah falsely conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Hadith #Tawheed #Aqeedah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #AhlusSunnah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #Fiqh #Shariah #SeekingKnowledge #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #SalafiDawah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #IslamicGuidance #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Reminder #Knowledge #Truth #Guidance #Muslim #MuslimYouth #ScholarsOfIslam #ScholarsOfSunnah #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #ShaykhFawzan #LajnahDaimah #Bidah #Shirk #Kufr #Iman #Refutation #Sufi #Ashariyyah #Maturidiyyah #Jahmiyyah#iman #Refutation #Sufi #Ashariyyah #Maturidiyyah #Jahmiyyah #Quranists