Salmaan Al-Awdah; One of the Heads of the Callers to Revolution and Deviation was at the Islam Channel London Conference last year, 2006.

This revolutionary, was exposed and warned against by the Major Salafi Scholars, so why do we find Yasir Qadhi promoting him and translating for him in front of thousands and broadcasting the video to thousands more?! This is just another example of his shallow understanding of the Sunnah, and another example of his alignment with the people of misguidance. Is there any greater actualisation of the following narrations:

Allaah’s Messenger, salallaahu alaihi wassallam, said: 

“A person is upon the deen of his friend, so let each one of you look at whom he befriends.”

Saheeh. Refer to Silsilah as-Saheehah of al-Albaani (no.927)

Ibn Mas’ood - radiallaahu anhu - said,

“Indeed a person walks alongside and accompanies the one whom he loves and who is like him.”

Al-Ibaanah (2/476)

Shaikh Ibnul-’Uthaimeen, rahimahullaah, answered some questions regarding Salmaan Al-Awdah and Safar Al-Hawaalee:

Questioner: “Also, they [the youth] listen to the cassettes of Salmaan bin Fahd al-Awdah, and Safar al-Hawaali!! Do we advise them to not listen to them?!!”

Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen: “May Allaah bless you. The good that is in their cassettes is also found in other than their cassettes, and their cassettes have some critical observations against them, some of their cassettes, not all of them. And I am not able to distinguish between them for you - I (am not able) - between this and that!!

Questioner: In that case you advise us not to listen to them?

Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen: “No (do not listen to them). I advise you to listen to the cassettes of Shaikh ibn baaz, the cassettes of Shaikh al-albaani, the cassettes of the scholars who are known for uprightness and integrity (i’tidaal), AND WHO ARE NOT KNOWN FOR REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY (THAWRAH FIKRIYYAH)”!!

Questions put to Shaikh Muhammad Naasirudden al-Albaanee:

And Shaikh al-Albaanee said:

“… I will now give you an example from our Salafee brothers, I, like you, state definitely that he is not Ikhwaanee, but his manhaj is Ikhwaanee, and he is a Salafee, and I do no think except that you know him well - and he is ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ‘Abdul-Khaaliq. You know him?”

[A] “Yes.”

[Shaikh] “Fine. He was a student of mine in the Islamic University, and in those days he was an Ikhwaanee, and, if the terminology can be used ‘turned to a Salafee’ there, and he was one of the best of the youth who were attentive to the lessons and what was taught etc. I say the like of you with regard to Salmaan, he is not Ikhwaanee, but his manhaj is the manhaj of the Ikhwaanul-Muslimeen. How is that?

Firstly, he organised a group, a partisan-organisation, do you know this? ‘Abdur-Rahmaan. This partisan organisation, this formation of a group is not upon the Salafee manhaj that we call to. Is that not the case? Then if Salmaan [al-Awdah], who we are speaking about at the moment and at other times, IF we say that he is not Ikhwaanee, and are speaking truly, then that does not extract him from being Ikhwaanee in his manhaj. This is where one should beware, that he is not Ikhwaanee (meaning: he does not have membership of the group itself), yet his manhaj is the manhaj of the Ikhwaanul-Muslimeen.

So I ask you now, do you see that he gathers the people into a group/organisation, he gathers the youth into a group/organisation, and he incites their emotions upon the like of what the Ikhwaanul-Muslimoon incite them upon, their helpers and their followers etc. I said in the previous lesson, the manhaj of the Ikhwaan is: ‘Gather the people into an organisation, then instruct them - then nothing.’ There is nothing except blind-gathering of people into an organisation, without any teaching. The proof is that close to a century has come upon the Ikhwaanul-Muslimeen, in their different lands, and they are, in military terms, in a situation of having made no gains. Why? Because this is what their manhaj brings about. They do not advance; not in knowledge, nor in ‘aqeedah, nor in behaviour, they are just as they were, completely.

It is not possible for you to find brothers from the Ikhwaanul-Muslimeen following the manhaj of the Sunnah, outwardly at least, you find one of them imitating Hasan al-Bannaa, shortening his beard, and making it - like some of the scholars of the Hanafees say in the books of the Hanafees - like the foreigners or the westerners do. So they persist in following the example of Hasan al-Bannaa, and it does not cross their mind to follow the example of the noblest of the Messengers (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa-sallam).

So now, is there something of this group organisation and this gathering of the youth? This was happening in Kuwait before that which occurred with them. So ‘Abdur-Rahmaan and those around him were preoccupied away from cultivating and educating and training (tarbiyah) them upon Islaam - because of this partisanship and group organisation. And this is one of the effects of blind-hizbiyyah,”

Shaikh Al-Albaanee, rahimahullaah, also said:

“They have opposed the Salaf in much of the issues of manhaj, and it is befitting that I label them the Khawarij of the era. And this resembles their emergence at the current time – in which we read their statements – because they, in reality, their words take the direction and objective of that of the Khawarij in performing takfir of the one who commits major sins. And perhaps I should say, this is either due to ignorance on their behalf or due to devised plot!!“

The Speech of the Scholars Upon Safar al-Hawaalee and Salmaan al-Awdah:

Part 1 - Shaykhs Ibn Baaz, al-Albaani and Ibn Uthaymeen: Just click:
A compilation of the sayings of the Scholars of the Salafee Manhaj upon the Khawaarij of the Era. Containing the statements of Shaykh Ibn Baz, Shaykh al-Albaanee and Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen.