(Translation) The Wahhabis and the Sunnis on the 4 Madhahib

[Omar HH]

The Wahhabis say that the fiqh of four madhahib split up the Muslims because of their differences in branches of the religion (not the roots),

Indeed the differences of opinion in the Ummah of the Schools of Islamic Law and their jurisprudence was from the branches only not in beliefs and roots of the religion for there is no difference between them - this difference was in branches (furu`) of the religion was existant at the time of the Sahaba. For there were differences from `Aisha on the hadith "Indeed the dead is punished by the crying of his family upon him" some said that it's meaning is that the dead is punished in his grave at the time that his family is crying upon him next to his grave and they say that this hadith Rasul Allah said when he encountered upon the grave of a Jew and next to them his family was crying over him so Rasul Allah informed them that indeed this dead is being punished in his grave for the time that his family cries upon him next to him. But the understanding of `Abd Allah ibn `Umar was of the understanding that the punishment of the dead is his family's crying upon him and he disagreed with Sayyidat `Aisha due to the verse of Allah ta`ala: And no bearer of burders shall bear the burden of another and he said "How does the dead be punished for an action that he did not do and which was done by his family after he passed away?"...

And in the time of the pious predecessors (tabi`een) there was much difference of opinion in the branches (fur`u) of religion until they were known as two main Schools of Law (madhabs):

The First: the School of Law of the people of opinion in knowledge, and their scholarly deduction (ijtihad): `Alqamat ibn Musayb, `Aroot ibn al-Zubayr, Salm ibn `Abd Allah ibn Omar, Naf`i, Sulayman ibn Yasser, and other than them.

And the people of Hijaz [Makkah and Madina], and what bordered it used to imitate (taqillid) this School of Law (madhab) without blame.

(More later)...

[Omar HH]

Page 164 of the book "Al-Mizan" by `Abd al-Qadir `Isa Iyab... I bought it in Alleppo it's a huge Wahhabi refutation book.