The Warning of Ahlus-Sunnah, the Salafīs, from Sitting and Mixing with the People of Desires, the Innovators
By Shaikh Rabīʿ Ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (may Allāh’s mercy be upon him)
Translated by Abu Khadeejah ʿAbdul-Wāhid Alam
Fourth Edition: January 2026 / Shaʿbān 1447 AH
Shaikh Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī (rahimahullāh) was an Imām of Ahlus-Sunnah with many volumes of writings and books that have been published.
Translator’s Introduction
All praise is due to Allāh—we praise Him and seek His aid and assistance. We seek refuge with Allāh from the evil of our souls and our sinful deeds. Whoever Allāh guides, none can misguide—and whoever He leaves to stray, none can guide. I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh alone, without partners—and I bear witness that Muḥammad is His devoted servant and Messenger.
“O you who have believed, keep your duty to Allāh and fear Him as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims in submission to Him.” (Āli ʿImrān: 102)
“O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from them both many men and women. And fear Allāh, through whom you seek your mutual rights, and sever not the family ties. Surely, Allāh is and ever an All-Watcher over you.” (An-Nisāʾ: 1)
“O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allāh and fear Him and always speak the truth. He will direct you to do righteous deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allāh and His Messenger, he has indeed achieved a great achievement.” (Al-Aḥzāb: 70-71) To proceed:
Before you is an amazing compilation and commentary by our Shaikh, the eminent Scholar, from the Imāms of Ḥadīth and Sunnah of the era, the carrier of the banner of al-Jarh wat-Taʿdīl in this age: Rabīʿ Ibn Hādī ʿUmayr Al-Madkhalī (rahimahullāh).
This treatise is a clarification and elucidation of the methodology of the Salaf, ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah, ahlul-Hadīth, as it relates to accompanying and cooperating with ahlul-Bidʿah, leaving no avenue for misunderstanding the Creed and Methodology of the early Salaf. Upon reading this book, one should see the clear mistake committed by those who gather around ahlul-Bidʿah and sit with them under the guise that they will guide them to the truth. They think they can rectify the people of innovation and turn them away from deviation and misguidance by gathering with them, sharing platforms with them and mixing with them. But the reality is that they themselves become bedazzled, confused and uncertain, and then fall into the embrace of ahlul-Bidʿah as we have seen time and time again. So, we ask Allāh for safety and well-being.
This treatise should be studied by every caller to Allāh, so he is not deceived into thinking that by mixing with ahlul-Bidʿah and the people of Hizbiyyah (sectarian partisanship), he is aiding the Salafi Daʿwah and strengthening it! Rather, he should know that he is harming the daʿwah, falling into opposition to the Sunnah and the way of the Salaf, harming his own trustworthiness among ahlus-Sunnah and endangering his religion by falling into the snares of the people of misguidance.
Abū Khadeejah ʿAbdul-Wāḥid
Shaʿbān 1447AH / January 2026
Al-Jarh wat-Taʿdīl is the science by which the scholars of Hadīth evaluate narrators, praising those who are trustworthy and criticising those who are unreliable in order to preserve Islām and the Sunnah. Jarh is Criticism: declaring a narrator to be weak, unreliable, or flawed. Taʿdīl is Validation: declaring a narrator to be upright, reliable, and trustworthy.
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