How the followers of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab HOAX fake books on Salafi creed:
The case of al-Barbahari's Sharh al-Sunna Many of the followers of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab are not truthful, nor do they preserve the creed of the early Salaf. Rather, some of them are some of the biggest liars on earth when they talk about matters of creed and the early Salaf.
One of the best examples is a mass hoax they have perpetrated since the 1980s with aid from the Saudi government. This hoax involves spreading the text Sharh al-Sunna which they attribute to the Hanbali authority al-Barbahari (867-941 CE).
They falsely claim that this text was regarded as important and widely studied in the past. In reality, the book was studied by no one in the past, and was actually written by Ghulam Khalil (d.888 CE).
This is well established in academic circles (see the linked book below). Ghulam Khalil was an ignorant popular preacher, who gained infamy as a known liar and hadith fabricator.
In reality, much of what some of these loud followers of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab claim are nothing but egregious lies and hoaxes, that are only believed by the most ignorant people.
- They lie about and conceal the actual takfiri khariji teachings of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (which I will be exposing soon in an upcoming video inshaAllah),
- They lie about the actual teachings of Ibn Hanbal (who did not consider invoking angels and jinn to be shirk).
- They lie about the actual teachings of Ibn Taymiyya (who held views similar to Ibn Hanbal),
- They blatantly misrepresent and conceal the contents of the works of Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Harb al-Kirmani (and pretend to have studied these books).
-And if all of that is not enough, they simply outright hoax texts like al-Barbahari's Sharh al-Sunna.
Not only do these fools fabricate lies about the Salaf, the Sunna, and al-Barbahari - most are too stupid to actually read the contents of the texts they are fabricating.
Anyone who reads the contents of the alleged text of Barabahari sees that the author is a raving arrogant ignoramus like Ibn Abd al-Wahhab - the latter of which claimed he discovered tawhid, claimed he was the only one who knew it in his age, and then takfired the entire world.
Indeed the reason why the hoaxed text of al-Barbahari appeals to the followers of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab is because the author likewise appears to be a raving arrogant ignoramus. If you want a window into the mind of a follower of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, look at the following ridiculous quotes for Sharh al-Sunnah.
In these quotes, the author claims to have an infallible and absolute knowledge of Islam, such that whoever has the slightest disagreement with EVEN A SINGLE LETTER is to be judged a deviant or kafir.
The author explicitly claims that all Muslims have an obligation to accept every word that he says. In this way, the author speaks in the same way as Ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Rabi bin Hadi al-Madkhali.
The author says: "Whoever acknowledges what is in this book, believes in it, takes it as an example to follow, does not doubt a single letter of it, and does not reject even one letter, is a follower of the Sunnah and the Jama‘ah—complete in his adherence to the Sunnah. But whoever rejects even a single letter from this book, doubts any part of it, or hesitates, is a person of desires [i.e., heretics] (ahl al-hawa).
فمن أقر بما في هذا الكتاب وآمن به واتخذه إماما، ولم يشك في حرف منه، ولم يجحد حرفا واحدا، فهو صاحب سنة وجماعة، كامل، قد كملت فيه السنة، ومن جحد حرفا مما في هذا الكتاب، أو شك [في حرف منه أو شك فيه] أو وقف فهو صاحب هوى. ومن جحد أو شك في حرف من القرآن، أو في شيء جاء عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، لقي الله تعالى مكذبا، فاتق الله واحذر وتعاهد إيمانك. “
Everything I have described to you in this book is from Allah, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ from his Companions, from the Followers (Tabi'un), and from the third to the fourth generation. So fear Allah, O servant of Allah, and adhere to belief, submission, delegation [and contentment] with what is in this book.
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