Question: What is your opinion, Oh virtuous Shaikh, about the one who says: that he is a disbeliever in Salafiyyah?

Answer: “This is ignorance and trespassing the truth. If he intends that using this term is not necessary and that it is not necessary for a person to say: I am Salafi, then the affair is easy. If he intends by it that he is a disbeliever in the methodology of the Salaf, their path and the truth which they were upon, then this disbelief in the Book and Sunnah and what the Salaf of this nation were upon”.

[Sharh Sunan Abu Dawood no. 88]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

Shaikhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah said:

وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ فِي الْعَقْلِ الصَّرِيحِ وَلَا فِي شَيْءٍ مِنْ النَّقْلِ الصَّحِيحِ مَا يُوجِبُ مُخَالَفَةَ الطَّرِيقِ السَّلَفِيَّةِ أَصْلًا

“..Know that there is not in the clear intellect nor anything in the sound texts, that which requires opposing the path of Salafiyyah at all…”

[Majmoo’ Fataawa (5/28)]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

Shaykh Muqbil (Rahimahullaah) was asked this question and he said:

“The reason was by distinguishing (ourselves), we distinguished ourselves from the people of bid’ah and therefore Allah had spread the sunnah. He also gave an example of how a person of innovation would come to the masjid in order to speak and everyone would leave, meaning they made Hajr (seperation) from him and humiliated him. It was my brothers who distingished between ahlus sunnah and ahlul bid’aa, that was a great reason for the spread of the da’wah. While blending and mixing with ahlul bid’aa has the opposite affect (allowing innovation to widespread).”

The Methodology of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah in Warning Against Innovators and Their Books Author: Shaikh Rabee’ bin Haadee al-Madkhalee

Source: book Manhaj Ahl-us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah Fee Naqd-ir-Rijaal wal-Kutub wat-Tawaa’if Article ID : BDH050002 [19575]