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Refuting
Ahlul-Bid'ah is considered as jihaad
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Question:
Is the statement of one who says that: "Whoever refutes
the Ahlul-Bid'ah is considered a mujaahid
in the Path of Allaah" - is this statement correct or
not?
Response:
Yes. The one who refutes the Ahlul-Bid'ah (people of innovation)
is a mujaahid,
and there is no doubt about this. Since when Imaam Ahmad ibn
Hanbal was told about a man who fasts, and offers salaah,
and gives in charity, and performs the i'tikaaf,
and does (other) good deeds, and was (then) told about a man
who refutes the innovators - implying which of the two was
better? He (Imaam Ahmad) said:
((Whoever
offers salaah
and fasts and gives in charity and performs i'tikaaf,
then (all of) this is for himself, and as for he who refutes
the innovators, then this is for (the benefit of) the people)).
So
there is no doubt that whoever refutes the innovators is better,
and the statements of the 'ulamaa. regarding this are many.
Shaykh
Ahmad an-Najmee
al-Fataawa al-Jaliyyah 'anil-Manaahij ad-Da'wiyyah - Page
24, Question 29
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