Who are we

We are Muslims, we call ourselves Ahle Hadees / Ahlul Hadees / Salafi, which means the group of Muslims, who follow Quran & Hadees with the principles and understandings according to the Salaf-us-Saliheen i.e., Sahaba Ikaraam (Rizwanullahi TaAlaAjmaain), Tabaeen, Tabaa Tabaeen(Rahimahumullah), Aimma Ikram, Mufassireen, Muhadiseen.

We call ourselves Ahle Hadees / Ahlul Hadees / Salafi, only to get distinguished from the other groups of Muslims, but not to divide the Muslim Ummah.

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A Response to those who say AhlulHadees is a new sect of Islam

The History of Ahlul Hadees

The Jama'aat of the Ahlul Hadeeth is an ancient one whose Imaam, guide, and Qai’d is none other than the Messenger (SallaAllaahu’alaihiwassalam) of Allah. This Jama'aat has been in existence ever since the time of the Sahaabah.

Statements of the scholars on AhlulHadees

1.Mawlana Muhmmad Idris Khandalwi states in his Risala ‘Ijtihad And Taqlid’ that all of the Sahaba were people of Hadeeth.

2.Imam Amir Bin Sharjil (31-110 AH) was one of the Kibaar amongst the Taab'ieen met 500 of the Sahaabah, and studied and learnt Hadeeth from 48 of them. He was a personality of the first century of Islam, and at the start of the second century.

He states:

((Whatever is in my mind, and whatever I have understood, if it had come to mind Iwould only teach those Hadeeth upon which the Ahlul Hadeeth had agreement and consensus upon.)) (Tadhkiratul hufaadh)

This is clear proof of the fact that the Jamaat of the Ahlul Hadeeth was existent during the time of the Sahaba and Tabi’een.

3.Imam Muslim Bin Shihab Az Zuhri (d 124) once went outdoors and proclaimed

(( Ahlul Hadeeth where are you?))

Then he would teach them four hundred Hadeeth. (Tadhkiratul hufaadh)

4.The great pillar of the Hanafi Madhab, Imam Muhammad Bin Hassan Sha’bani says in his famous book ‘ Al Muwatta’ in chapter Yameen M’aa Ashaad

((Imam Ibn Shihab was the greatest scholar in the eyes of the people of Hadeeth in Medina))

This shows that in the second century Madinah Taiba was the head quarters of the Jama'aat of Ahlul Hadeeth. And why would it not be? As this is where Muhammad (SallAllhu’alaihiwassalam) spent the last ten years of his Prophet hood, and where the Islamic sultanate was established.

5.The other pillar of the Hanafi Madhab Imam Qadi Abu Yusuf (d 182) once went outdoors, and looking the people of Hadeeth he said

((There is no one better than you on this earth as you only teach and learn the narrations of the Messenger of Allah ( SallAllhu’alaikwassalam))).

6.Imam Hafs bin Ghayath (d 194) said ((Khayr Ahl Ad Dunya)), meaning that the best Jamaat is that of the Ahlul Hadeeth.

7.The Imam of Lugha and Nahu Khalil Bin Ahmad Al Farahidi (d 164) states

((Ahl Al Hadeeth are the friends (sing: Wali) of Allah, If they are not the friends of Allah, then there are no friends of Allah.))

8.The Faqeeh of the era Sufyan At Thawree( d162) said

((The angels are the guardians of the heavens and the people of Hadeeth are the guardians of the earth))

Meaning that they are the ones who call to the deen and preserve it with their efforts.

9.Sufyaan ath-Thawree said,

((If there was no benefit to a Person of Hadeeth except sending salaat upon the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam), then indeed one of them will be sending salaat upon whom so long as he is engrossed in his book)).

10.The famous ascetic, Imam Fudail bin Ayadh (d187) wrote upon looking at the people of Hadeeth

((Oh inheritors of Prophets!))

11.Khalifa Haroon Al Rashid (d 193) says

(( I found four traits in four different groups, Kufr with the Jahmiyah, argument and fighting amongst the Mutazilla, lies with the Rawafid, and the truth with Ahlulf Hadeeth))

12.Imam Muhadith Abdullah Ibn Mubarak (d180) says that

((on the Day of Qiyama that the most Thabit (affirmed, strongest) footsteps will be that of the people of Hadeeth)).

When he would see that his little children have the ability to write Hadeeth he would say that they are the leaves growing from the tree of the deen. If they are small today, then they will be of great stature in the future.

13.Imam Hammad Bin Zayd (d179) said that the people of Hadeeth are mentioned in the Quran in the following Ayah:

And it is not (proper) for the believers to go out to fight (Jihâd) all together. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may get instructions in (Islâmic) religion, and that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may beware (of evil)." (Tawbah 9:122),.

Many more scholars have praised AhleHadees.

To Know more read the book

The History of Ahlul Hadeeth

By

The Noble Shaykh, Badee' udeen Shah as-Sindee

http://www.targheeb.com/phocadownload/Hadeeth/Taarikh%20Hadeeth.pdf