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Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad bin ʿAwnillāh is a mighty lesson and a great admonition to the contemporary Mumayyiʿah who have wasted the methodologies of the Salaf towards the innovators. What follows below is not for the squeamish, the effeminate or easily unsettled.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Mufarraj said:[1]
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad bin ʿAwnillāh (d. 378H) would show rejection against the People and Innovation and call them to account, showing extreme harshness against them, utterly humiliating them.
He would always seek to pick out their faults, rushing to damage them, vehemently oppressive against them, chasing them away whenever he was able to, not allowing them to remain.
And every one of them (Ahl al-Bidʿah) used to be frightened of him, and would seek to hide and protect himself from him.
He would never compromise with a single one of them, and nor would he allow any of them to remain safe.
And if he came across evil and witnessed any deviation from the Sunnah, he would oppose it and would disgrace and humiliate (its perpetrator).
And he would announce the affair of this person and declare his own disownment of him by mentioning the evil of such a one in the various public gatherings.
And he would incite others against him such that he either destroyed him or caused him to abandon his evil and repugnant madhhab and his evil doctrine.
And he would never cease to remain upon this habit, making Jihād therein, seeking the Face of Allāh, up until he met Allāh.
How our times are in the need of the likes of Abū Jaʿfar to face the rising tide of the Mumayyiʿah and the harm they have brought to the Sunnah and its people, and the strength and preponderance they have given to Ahl al-Bidʿah and the Ḥizbiyyīn.