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______________________________________, | w w w |\ | || || | || |\ | o_,_7 _|| . _o_7 _|| 4_|_|| o_w_, |\ | ( : / (_) / ( . |\ |______________________________________|\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Abdullah Ibn Saba (Part I) Enemies of Islam whose goal were/are to split the Muslims, in their effort to explain the emergence of Shia, claim that the Shia are a sect which was originated by Abdullah Ibn Saba, a Jew who embraced Islam during the reign of Uthman Ibn Affan, the third caliph. They further state that Abdullah Ibn Saba traveled in Muslim cities and towns, from Damascus to Kufa to Egypt, propagating among Muslims that Ali is the Prophet's successor. He provoked Muslims to kill Uthman since he believed Uthman had occupied the seat of Imam Ali. He also made mischief in

__________________________________________ | | | || || | || | | o_,_7 _|| . _o_7 _|| 4_|_|| o_w_, | | ( : / (_) / ( . | |__________________________________________| From: azolfag@phoenix.princeton.edu (Ali Zolfaghari) Subject:Re: Wahhabis Date: 15 Aug 93 04:28:16 GMT Assalamu Alaikum: In article hassan@cs.ubc.ca (Moustafa Hassan) writes: |> There are many scholars, most notably Ibn Teymiyyeh and |> Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, that are very misunderstood, |> but I'll limit the discussion to M. 'Abd al-Wahhab. |> To begin with, Arabia was, at a time in history, as mixed |> up and full of bid'ah as many of the other Muslim countries |> today. Comparing Ibn Taymiyeh to Mohammad Ibn abdul Wahhab is like comparing apples and oranges. Yes they are both contraversial but one (ibn

__________________________________________ | | | || || | || | | o_,_7 _|| . _o_7 _|| 4_|_|| o_w_, | | ( : / (_) / ( . | |__________________________________________| The Ahl al-Sunnah View of Ibn Taymiya and his Works ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The following article is written by a Sunni brother From: mas@Cadence.COM (Masud Khan) Subject: Ahl al-Sunnah and Ibn Taymiya Ibn Taymiya and his writings and those of his students have recently been used by "Wahabbis" and "Reformists" to provide evidence against madhaib and the Aqueedah of Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jamaat (The Four Schools). As can be seen from the following brief biography, taken from "The Reliance of the Traveller" which is an AUTHENTIC book of fiqh, Ibn Taymiya (Rahim-ullah) was

From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca __________________________________________ | | | || || | || | | o_,_7 _|| . _o_7 _|| 4_|_|| o_w_, | | ( : / (_) / ( . | |__________________________________________| Jews/Christians/Muslims (Part 1: Is there any similarity?) The following was sent a few months ago. Now it is going to continue: The sequence of articles is important because some of conclusions are not valid until the last article. -------------------------------- Sahih Muslim, Rendered into English by Abdul Hamid Siddiqi Printed at Hafeez Press, Sh.Muhammad Ashraf Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore(Pakistan) -------------------------------- Chapter MCXII, titled as Following the footsteps of the jews and the christians #6448 Abu Said Alkhudri report