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Maḥmūd al-Ḥaddād seeded the Ḥaddādī ideology which is based on exaggerating excusable and unintended errors and slips to facilitate tabdīʿ as a destructive weapon to use against Ahl al-Sunnah, and to infuse divisions and enmities among them, all out of sympathy and support for the political aḥzāb and their goals. The associate of Maḥmūd al-Ḥaddād, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Bāshmīl, claimed that the Shaykhs of Madīnah, such as Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī (رحمه الله) were calling to a deviant political methodology in complete secrecy built upon the errors of Shaykh al-Albānī (رحمه الله). Bāshmīl became the main promulgator, spokesman and caller to the ideology in the late 1990s. After them, came the second wave Ḥaddādīs in the 2000s such as Fāliḥ al-Ḥarbī, then Fawzī al-Baḥraynī and they carried on the methodology with their own infusions.
In this compilation, I present excerpts from the refutation of Shaykh Rabīʿ against ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Bashmīl from 1418H (1998 CE) in which Ḥaddādī traits, behaviours and methods are exposed, those by which division and chaos is seeded in the ranks of Ahl al-Sunnah. Sadly, these affairs have been forgotten or their importance is no longer valued, and as a result, in recent years, much confusion and splitting has occurred through such neglect and absence of diligence.
Quote from Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hadī (رحمه الله):[1]
Indeed, the problems and tribulations of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf require reflection, contemplation and deep thought and what he makes apparent of loyalty to the state and to some of the scholars through deception and cunning cannot be taken (at face value). The problems of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, his tribulation ( fitnah) and his tumult require the principle of ʿUmar (رضي الله عنه), the second righteous caliph and the great genius (al-ʿabqariyy al-ʿaḍhīm), that barrier in the face tribulations: ‘I am not a deceiver, nor can I be deceived by a deceiver’ and (it requires) the comprehension of Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنه) which strikes deep.
Footnotes
1. Majmūʿ Muʿallafāt wa Rasāʾīl (9/527).