Yahya al-Hajuri

Defending the Honour of Uthmaan Bin Affaan From Al-Hajuri and His Extremist Followers: Part 4
Posted by Abu.Iyaad on Thursday, October, 03 2013 and filed under Articles

Defence of Uthmaan in the Speech of Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen and Shaykh al-Fawzaan Against the Claim of the Raafidee Donkey Ibn al-Mutahhir, Yahya al-Hajuri and His Fanatical Followers

Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan was asked in an audio that is wide and distributed (mp3):

هَذَا سَائِلُ يَقُولُ أَحَسَنَ اللهِ إِلَيكُمْ مَا صَحَتْ الْقَوْلُ أَنْ آذان عثمان ' رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْه ' بِدْعَةَ وَضَلاَلَةً

This questioner asks: May Allaah be benevolent to you, what is the validity of the saying that the adhaan of Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu) is bidah (innovation) and dalaalah (misguidance).

The Shaykh responded:

هَذَا هُوَ الْبِدْعَةُ الَّذِي يَقُولُ الْكَلاَمُ هَذَا هُوَ الْبِدْعَةُ الرَّسُولُ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيه وآله وَسَلْمَ- يَقُولُ : عَلَيكُمْ بِسِنَّتِي وَسْنَةَ ' الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ '. هَلْ عثمان ماهو مِنْ ' الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ '؟! ماهو الْخَلِيفَةَ الثَّالِثْ ؟! طَيِّبَ , إذاً مَا أَمَرُّ بِهِ سِنَّةً والآذان الأول سُنَّةً مِثْلُ الآذان الأول الَّذِي قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ هَذَا سِنَّةً لِأُجِلُّ أَنْ يستيقض النَّاسَ , عثمان أَمَرُّ بِهِ لَمَّا رَأَّى النَّاسُ مُنْشَغِلَيْنِ بِمُزَارِعِهُمْ وَبِتُجَّارَاتِهُمْ لِأُجِلُّ أَنْ يَتَنَبَّهُوا ' لِصَلاَةِ الْجمعَةِ ' و يتهيأو لَهَا فَصَارَتْ سَنَةُ نِعْمَ . لَكُنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعَرِّفُ السَّنَةُ مِنْ الْبِدْعَةُ ... لَا يُعَرِّفُهُ فَهُوَ بِدَعَهُ

This itself is bidah (innovation), the one who utters this speech, it is bidah. The Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) says, "You must follow my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided caliphs." Is not Uthmaan not from the rightly-guided caliphs?! Is he not the third caliph?! Fine, what he commanded is a Sunnah, the first adhaan is Sunnah, l ike the first adhaan that is before Fajr, this is a Sunnah so that the people wake up. Uthmaan ordered (this adhaan) when he saw the people preoccupied with cultivation and trade, so that they become aware of the Jumu'ah prayer and start preparing for it. So it became a Sunnah, yes. However this (person) does not know Sunnah from bid'ah, he does not know it, so it is an innovation (to him).

Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah) said, as occurs in his explanation of aqidah al-Safaareeniyyah (p. 60):

حتى إن بعضهم قال : إن الأذان الأول للجمعة بدعة؛ لأن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يسنه، فإذا قيل له: إنه سنة الخليفة الراشد الذي أمرنا باتباعه، عثمان بن عفان رضي الله عنه، قال: وإن سنَّه إنه ليس سنة الرسول عليه الصلاة والسلام. وبهذا حكم على خليفة المسلمين الثالث وعلى المسلمين عمومًا بالضلال، لأني لا أعلم إلى ساعتنا هذه أن أحدًا من الصحابة أنكر على عثمان رضي الله عنه هذا الأذان، فيكون الصحابة مجمعين على إقرار الضلالة! ويكون الخليفة الراشد ضالاً! لأن كل بدعة ضلالة، وهذا -والعياذ بالله- غرور بالنفس وزهو، ولا شك أن من ترافع إلى هذا الحد سوف يضعه الله، وأن من تواضع لله رفعه الله، يجب أن نعرف لهؤلاء السلف حقهم ومنزلتهم عند الله، وفي العلم وفي العبادة

Until some of them said: The first adhaan for Jumu'ah is a bid'ah (innovation), because the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) did not institute it. Then when it is said to him, "The righteous caliph whom we have been ordered to follow instituted it, Uthmaan bin Affaan (radiallaahu anhu)" he responds, "Even if he instituted it, it is not the Sunnah of the Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam)." And through this he has judged the third khaleefah of the Muslims and upon the Muslims in general with misguidance, because I do not know until this hour of ours that anyone from the Companions showed rejection against Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu) for this adhaan. Hence, all the Companions would have corroborated this misguidance! and the rightly-guided caliph would have been misguided! Because every innovation is misguidance, and this - and refuge is from Allaah - is from being deceived by (one's) sould and vain (arrogance). And there is no doubt that the one who raises himself to this level (of arrogance) will be put down by Allaah, and that the one who humbles himself to Allaah, Allaah will raise him. It is obligatory for us to know the status and right of those Salaf and their status with Allaah, in knowledge and in worship.

Notes

In the statements of the two Shaykhs above is a defence of the honour of Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu) from being responsible for instituting the umm ul-bid'a (mother of all innovations).