Kashf al-Fitan

The Muṣaʿfiqah are a group of "oppressive" and ignorant "blind-followers" who accept tabdīʿ (declaring someone an innovator), taḍlīl (declaring someone misguided in religion) and tajdīʿ (amputation, isolation, cutting off people from the body of Ahl al-Sunnah) of well-known students of knowledge and shaykhs without evidence that warrants such extreme, harsh and mighty judgements. The alleged, perceived or actual errors found with them do not justify this oppression. Read this last sentence again three times and you will have grasped the entire issue, and you will be able to see through all the doubts and alleged evidences of the Muṣaʿfiqah. They let loose in early to mid-2017 and the Major Scholars have stood to curb their evil and reject their oppression and transgression.

Their primary targets are Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī, however their attacks against these shaykhs are by-proxy only at the moment [meaning, indirect], in that they target the students of these shaykhs and anyone who does not blindly follow them in their unjust disparagements. It won't be long before their attacks are bolder and more direct. As it stands their insinuations are already clear: Shaykh Rabīʿ is old, he is ill, he is surrounded by an evil inner circle, he is dictated to, led along by others (like an animal is led to water) and so on. Some of these are things which have been heard in previous fitnahs when those who deviated were devoid of evidences for the falsehood they were upon.

In December 2017, during a public and planned lecture which Muhammad ibn Hādi entitled, “The time has come for Muhammad ibn Hādi to break his silence”, he made some particularly derogatory and insulting comments and serious allegations against some of the well-known Salafis which justifiably caused consternation among the people, who then turned to the elder Scholars for guidance. A question was put to Ash-Shaikh Al-’Allāmah, Sālih Al-Fawzān (may Allah preserve him) mentioning some of the terms employed by Muhammad ibn Hādi. So, Shaikh Al-Fawzān was asked, “Is it allowed to slander and accuse a Muslim of being a fornicator (‘āhir) and being an ill-mannered drunk and a seller of alcohol? Is it allowed to take knowledge from a person who does that?”

Since that time, Dr Muhammad ibn Hādi has increased in his insulting comments and disrespectful speech and extended them to Shaikh ‘Ubayd, Shaikh Rabee’ and Shaikh Abdullāh Al-Bukhāri. He has not visited either Shaikh Rabee’ or Shaikh Ubayd since then.

“Convey to these callers my salām, and inform them: Those whom you refer to as Sa’āfiqah are shaykhs and people involved in da’wah, they are people of virtue and Sunnah — and they are oppressed! Convey to them that they are oppressed. Say to them: Bring your proofs that these [shaykhs] are Sa’āfiqah, meaning that they are ignorant fools, bring your proofs! Otherwise repent to Allah, the Mighty and Majestic.

Al-Allāmah Shaykh Rabīʿ: Muḥammad bin Hādī is affected by Ahl al-Bidʿah, wages war against Salafīs and causes splits all across the world: Relates from the Shaykh that those who make false accusations and blindly-follow in the affair of Muḥammad bin Hādī should be labelled "Ṣaʿāfiqah". Read: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 and English translation.

Al-Allāmah Rabī bin Hādī al-Madkhalī: Muḥammad bin Hādī's path is more severe than that of the Haddaadiyah An audio from Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Nahārī (student of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Najmī), who narrates from Shaykh Rabīʾ that Muḥammad bin Hādī's path is more severe than that of the Ḥaddādiyyah and that he has harmed Salafiyyah and caused splits all across the world.

In the fitnah of Muḥammad bin Hādī and his followers, the Muṣaʿfiqah, a group of Salafī shaykhs and students—and from them were ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī and his group—were openly criticised and attacked and some were spoken of with language of tabdīʿ and taḍlīl. However, when requested Ibn Hādī was unable to meet the burden and threshold of proof, commensurate to the great commotion and turmoil he had created, and the huge splits that ensued in the daʿwah all across the world as a result.

Recently, a message has been circulated where an unknown person (majhūl) apparently called Muhammad ibn Hādi from Britain the day after ‘Eid Al-Adhā 2018 (1439H) asking him how one is “to conduct themselves with those who agree with the Sa’āfiqah”. During this conversation, Muhammad Hādi is reported to have “warned against Abu Khadeejah, Abu Hakeem and Abdulilāh Lahmāmi” and he warned from “sitting with them and listening to them.”

On this page are some useful resources that have been prepared which may come in use if you encounter the Muṣaʿfiqah-Ṣaʿāfiqah. They are oppressive blind-followers who think they are treating a disease, not realising that they are the disease itself. Just like the followers of al-Maʿribī, al-Ḥarbī, al-Ḥājūrī before them, they are bringing the same doubts and accusations of "taqlīd" of certain scholars and "Ghuluww" in them. This is after it has become clear that they have zero evidence for the tabdīʿ, taḍlīl and tajdīʿ that they blindly followed others in.