Dr. Essam Al-Bashir, Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, said that hostility to the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, is old since he was sent in the Quraysh, and there are differences in Islamic history that doubted the Companions ’transmission of it.
He added in his interview to the episode (1/5/2021) of the program “Sharia and Life in Ramadan” that the Shiites rejected the Sunnis and considered all the Companions to be apostates except for 3, namely: Salman Al-Farsi, Al-Miqdad Bin Amr, and Abu Dhar Al-Ghafari, and they rejected everything that came in Sunnah is not what Al-Bayt narrated The Mu’tazila also lied many hadiths of the Sunnah, especially relating to intercession, the torment of the grave, and seeing God Almighty in the Hereafter.
He added that among these groups the heretics, who sought to distort the beauty of Islam, through the fabricated hadiths that they presented to Muslims after the Islamic conquests. On the other hand, the Sunnis took many matters to confront skepticism about the hadiths of the Messenger and his Sunnah, the most important of which is naming the narrator of the hadith, and after that they worked on the chain of transmission, and through that they were able to refute all the hadiths fabricated.
The area of stabbing spread in the Prophet’s Sunnah after the Islamic conquests in Sicily and Andalusia, entering the Church on the line, the emergence of orientalists and their interest in the Arabic language, the weakness of the legitimate culture of new Muslims, the presence of regional and regional fanatics, and the lack of scholars in the Sharia without support.
He noted that many critics focus in their hadiths on the fact that the Prophet’s Sunnah was written 200 years after the death of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, considering that many of them were designed to achieve political interests and ethnic and sectarian whims, as came the “Quranic school” which denies the Sunnah and affirms that the Qur’an In it everything is based on the verse: “We did not neglect anything in the book.”
Motives vary between these teams; The Mu’tazila started from the point of view that everything is subject to deliberation and discussion, and the goal is to destroy the Sunnah to reach the demolition of religion, because it destroys the second asset of Islam, which is the Sunnah, which necessarily leads to the demolition of the first asset, which is the Qur’an.
Issam Al-Bashir indicated that the most dangerous thing about Islam is the one who is envious of it, especially the so-called “Quranists”. They are the most adherent of the people to the Qur’an, but the reality is that they cling to separate parts of it, just as the “modernist” school emptied the issue of its content, and relied on what it called reason, logic, human knowledge, and the provisions of the Prophet’s Sunnah to it.
As for some inferring narratives to question the Sunnah, the Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars asserted that it is a selective approach that corresponds to the whim it aims at, even if the hadith is weak or subjective, and the correct hadith is returned because it does not correspond to his whim and vision, and they do not take the texts of the Qur’an, but rather cut them accordingly. To their whims.