“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Imam al-Tirmidhi (Ra) said:”The explanation of al-Jama’ah according to the people of knowledge: They are the people of fiqh, knowledge and Hadith.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 4/2167; Ahmad Shakir ed’n) 

Imam Bukhari (Ra) stated in his Sahih (vol. 9, chapter. 10, English ed’n),  “The statement of the Prophet (saws): ‘A group of my followers will remain victorious in their struggle in the cause of the Truth.’ Those are the religious(ly) learned men (Ahl ul-Ilm).” 

Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Ra) said about this group:”If it is not the people of Hadith, then I do not know who they may be.” (Sahih Muslim Sharif-Mukhtasar Sharh Nawawi, vol. 5, pg. 183, W. Zaman) 

Ghousal Azam, Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra) states: “There are 73 groups as foretold by Sayyiduna RasoolAllah (saws) and (bear in mind that), the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat was the rightful group”. (Ghunyatut Taalibeen)

Imam Ghazzali (ra) writes: “The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat is the successful Firqah (group) and it is this Firqa which weighs or determines its thoughts and its according to the scales of the Holy Quran”. (Mujarribaate Imam Ghazal)

Ibn Taymiyya  described those who are the real Sunni’s in his Aqeedat-il-Wasitiyyah (pg. 154):  ” Their creed is the religion of Islam which was sent to the world by Allah through the Prophet (saws). But the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said, ‘My Ummah will get divided into 73 sects and each one will go to Hell save one and that one is the Jama’at.’ Also in one Hadith he said, ‘They are those people who will follow this path which I and my Sahaba follow today.’ Therefore they have caught hold of Islam unalloyed from every adulteration and these are the people of Ahl as-Sunnah Wa’l Jama’ah. This group includes the truthful, the martyrs and the virtuous; it includes the minarets of guidance, lamps in the darkness and owners of such superiorities and virtues who have been already mentioned. It includes the saints and also those Imams on whose guidance Muslims are unanimous.

Hazrat Sha Wali’ullah Muhaddith Dehlawi (ra) states: “As RasoolAllah (saws) has stated, follow this ‘Sawad-e-Azam’, and when the four Madhabs are within the Sawad-e-Azam then the following of any one of them, is followance of the Sawad-e-Azam. Therefore, refuting any one of them is refuting the Sawad-e-Azam”. (Aqdul Jayyad)

Imam Sufyan Souri (ra) states: “By Sawad-e-Azam is meant those who are called the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat”. (Al Mizaanul Qubra)

Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlawi (ra) states in his book “Fatawa Azeezi” (Vol. 2, pg. 4) that: “The various parts of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat in Aqaa’id such as the Ash’ariya, the Maaturadi, in Fiqh such as the Hanifa, the Shafi’i, the Hambali, in Tassawwaf such as the Qaaderi, the Chisti, Naqshabandi, the Suhurwardi, this servant considers all of them to be the truth”.

Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad ibn Hajar al-Haytami(ra) (d. 974/1567 AD)– defined the Sunni Muslims as follows in his book Fath al-jawad:  “A mubtadi (innovator) is the person who does not have the faith (aqid’ah) conveyed unanimously by the Ahl as-Sunnah. This unanimity was transmitted by the two great Imam’s Abu’l Hasan al-Ashari (d.324/936; Rahimahullah) and Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d.333/944; Rahimahullah) and the scholars who followed their path.”

 

Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Haytami : “Man of bid’ah means one whose beliefs are different from the Ahl as-Sunnah faith. The Ahl as-Sunnah faith, is the faith of Abu’l Hasan al-Ashari, Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and those who followed them. One who brings forth something which is not approved by Islam becomes a man of bid’ah.” (al-Fatawa al-Hadithiyya (pg. 205)

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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