Sunni

02 May 2010 Leave a Comment

by Umm Faaris in Sayings of the Salaf

“It has become famous upon the tongues of the people of San’aa that the Mujtahid scholars and those who take from them and are connected to them in these days are called Sunni. This is a title for which the competitors compete for attributing a person to the Sunnah is the greatest testimony that he is someone who embraced it. However in the terminology of these hizbeyeen (partisans), it is applied to one who has enmity to Ali and allegiance to Mu’awiyah. This is a slander against the people of knowledge and a transgression against the Muslim. It is used only upon the tongues of those who are more like animals than anything else..”

Imaam ash Shawkaani in Adab at Talab wa Muntaaha al Arab (pg. 85-87)

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