Warning: Lies, distortions, and slanders by Shaykh GF Haddad

[silentflute]

Salaam,
Instead of making threads like this, is it best not to try and make contact with the individual and put your point across to them ? and share with the rest of the world ?
I was in a recent discussion with someone who I class as a reliable source and he informed me that the sheikh in question is a student of Sheikh Mohammad Yaqoubi.
Jazakallah Khair

[Abu_Tamim]

Salaam,
Instead of making threads like this, is it best not to try and make contact with the individual and put your point across to them ? and share with the rest of the world ?
I was in a recent discussion with someone who I class as a reliable source and he informed me that the sheikh in question is a student of Sheikh Mohammad Yaqoubi.
Jazakallah Khair

Is it not for those who slander our elders to know what they are talking about before going on the net and mouthing nonsense? Why should we go running to them?

[Ibrahimhanifa]

As some of you are probably aware, brother Muzammil Husayn has written a number of posts on sunniforum refuting Shaykh GF Haddad, during which clear slanders, distortions and lies have surfaced. I have gathered a few of these statements into one post as an example of the deception perpetrated by this tradionalist scholar who exercises some degree of influence online, to the extent that many brothers have fallen for his slanders against certain righteous ulama. The sample below should be enough to alert brothers to the fact that this scholar is not a reliable source of information. If anyone here has contact with the Shaykh, then he is requested to bring this sample to the Shaykh's attention:

1. GF Haddad said: "It is also a remarkable revision of history to represent Ismā.īl Dihlawī as a reviver of jihād. In reality, he was a rebel bāghī who opposed the jihād against the British declared by the last Mughāl Sultan of India."

2. GF Haddad said: "[Taqwiyat al-Iman of] Ismā.īl Dihlawī was also immediately opposed by a host of Indian Sunnī Ulema beginning with his own family and the Ulema of Delhi such as his two paternal uncles Shāh .Abd al-.Azīz Muh.addith Dihlawī (d. 1239/1834) Shah Rafi‘ al-Din passed away in 1233 H/1818 AD before Taqwiyat al-Iman was even written, so it is not possible he wrote a refutation. Also Shah 'Abd al-'Aziz died in 1824 not 1834.

3. GF Haddad said: "Ismā.īl Dihlawī wrote Taqwiyat al-Īmān in the wake of his H.ijāz years (1236-1239), at which time he had come under the tutelage of Wahhābī missionaries."

4. GF Haddad said: "The night of the Mawlid Sharif is of greater significance and merit than Laylat al-Qadr which is the position of some of the Maliki Imams as cited by Abu al-`Abbas al-Wansharisi (d. 914) in his encyclopdia of Maliki fatwas titled _al-Mi`yar al-Mu`rab wa al-Jami` al-Mughrib fi Fatawa Ahl Ifriqya wa al-Andalus wa al-Maghrib (11:280-285)."


5. GF Haddad said: "Secondly, it is patently false that the origin of the two `Eids cannot be attributed to any particular event of history that had happened on these dates as the books of Tafsir are replete with the story of the sacrifice of Ibrahim (as) with his son Isma`il (as) on the occasion of which was offered a huge ram as stated in the Holy Qur'an."


6. GF Haddad said: "As for death anniversaries, the Prophet definitely visited his wife and uncle's graves on a regular basis as well as his mother's."

No such rigorously authentic narration exists which state he visited any of these relatives on a regular basis.

7. Translating a passage from Siyar A'lam al-Nubala', GF Haddad quotes al-Dhahabi as follows: "As for his celebration of the Noble Mawlid al-Nabawi, words are too poor to describe it. The people used to come all the way from Iraq and Algeria to attend it.
9. GF Haddad said: "Secondly, the prescription of the commemoration of the birth of Christ *was* prescribed in the early Christian Church, even if its chronological proximity to the pagan commemoration of the winter solstice was co-opted by the political authorities as a means to recycle prevalent social customs in certain regions including those of pagan origins."


NOTE: Ulama and moderators were consulted before posting this.

Salam Brother

hope you are well

Can you please give me names of scholars who approved your article?

[Sultaan]

This is rich coming from Gibril Haddad, who is well-known for his extreme ta'assub towards the Neo-Con Sufi, Hisham Kabbani, one of the biggest stooges for the enemies of Islaam in the West, and he even defended his vile shaykh at Yursil's blog when I asked him about his use of Shaykh Ali al-Hudhayfi's takfeer of the Christians in his khutbah in Medina to incite the kuffar against the "Wahabis" at his website. Also their grandmaster Nazim al-Haqqani asked the Pope to "pray" for him when he visited him in Cyprus. The brother who started this thread should expose his connections to these charlatans.

[Ibrahimhanifa]

This is rich coming from Gibril Haddad, who is well-known for his extreme ta'assub towards the Neo-Con Sufi, Hisham Kabbani, one of the biggest stooges for the enemies of Islaam in the West, and he even defended his vile shaykh at Yursil's blog when I asked him about his use of Shaykh Ali al-Hudhayfi's takfeer of the Christians in his khutbah in Medina to incite the kuffar against the "Wahabis" at his website. Also their grandmaster Nazim al-Haqqani asked the Pope to "pray" for him when he visited him in Cyprus. The brother who started this thread should expose his connections to these charlatans.

Salam bro

Please give me links to show Hishams friend & gf haddads promoting takfeer & wahabis good friendship with deobandis

[Ibrahimhanifa]

quick question - are you prentending to be hanafi? like some zionist who pretend to be muslims! Why do you wahabist (sect of christanity & Jamia ) attack other groups behind the hanafi lable?

[Saad]

Salam Brother

hope you are well

Can you please give me names of scholars who approved your article?

Assalam o 'alaykum,

Why does he need an approval? Lies of G.F Haddad are clear as daylight.

[Ibrahimhanifa]

Assalam o 'alaykum,

Why does he need an approval? Lies of G.F Haddad are clear as daylight.

WS

1. If I hate GF Haddad i don't need approvals

2. if i want the truth, I ask for approvals

3. Usually people in this forum are lay people, so quoting something like that you must be a scholar or my favourite copy & Paste scholar ( I am one)

4. Finally, The guy who posted the info said the following 'NOTE: Ulama and moderators were consulted before posting this.' This mean I was asking who (names) not why! So If i was to listen to someone like you who has flaws in reading couple of lines (maybe hate?) I have a right to ask Who & Why

Conclusion
I am right to conclude your hate for GF Haddad is clear as daylight? Please stay away from sacred text, what you tell the neo salafist tell yourself! No Offence

[Jadeed]

It is perfectly fine, apparently, for scholars and students to lie upon shuhadah like Shah Ismail and spread deviance, bid'ah, etc, while clothing it in the name of Sunnah, but if a person on a forum should call a spade a spade then he is liable and it will be termed 'backbiting!'

What madness!

[aMuslimForLife]

I love Shaykh GF Haddad... I haven't come across a scholar that I don't disagree with nor a scholar that is free of mistakes... He has done alot in bringing to light the mistakes and errors of salafism, al hamdullah... For this alone... I love him.... May Allah give him long life and a sit next to the anbiya in jannah... Amin.....

Are there any scholars you know of that has never made mistakes???