The Crime of Tamayyu’ upon the Salafi Manhaj

Shaykh 'Ubayd al-Jābiri رحمه الله

Translation and notes by: Abū 'Iyaad Amjad bin Muhammad Rafīq

In the late 1980s and early 1990s numerous individuals with an apparent attachment to Salafiyyah - having been nurtured upon the books and ideas of those innovators - began to preach these deceptive principles to Salafi audiences. These principles were used to undermine the Salafi scholars, to erode the trust and confidence the masses had in those Scholars and to entice unsuspecting Salafis into their innovated methodologies. From the main callers of this orientation were 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq, Salman al-‘Awdah, Safar al-Hawali, 'Adnan 'Ar'ur, Abu al-Hasan al-Ma'ribi amongst others. Their agenda was to bring the teachings of Hassan al-Banna, Abu A’la Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb to Salafi audiences. In implementing this agenda, they attempted to invalidate the clear and decisive verdicts of the Major Scholars (such as Shaykh Ibn Baz and Shaykh al-Albani) regarding the innovated groups and parties present in the field of da'wah. This would help justify their own cooperation with these groups and also provide a justification for inviting Salafis to cooperate with these groups as well. When the clear lines of distinction between the people of Sunnah and people of Bid'ah had been obscured by these false methodologies, much confusion and controversy was spread.