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“I Wish To be Killed Following The Sunnah”

Ibn Al-’Arabi Al-Maliki said: ‘I once invited Shaikh Abu Bakr Al-Fihri in Muharras Ibn Ash-Shawwa’ at Ath-Thagr.

Abu Bakr was of those eminent Shaikhs who earnestly followed the prophet’s example in raising his hands in Salat.

He arrived at the Thagr where I teach.
The Shaikh entered the mosque and stood in the first row. And I was standing at its end near a window looking over the sea to enjoy the breeze.

In the same row, there were the chief of the sea crew Abu Thamnah, his deputy and some members

of the crew waiting for the Imaam to lead them in the Salaat.

During his Nafilah Salat, the Shaikh raised his hands when doing Ruku‘ and when raising from it.

Abu Thamnah addressed his companions: ‘Do you see what has this eastern done?!

Go and Kill him and throw his body in the sea and let no one see you’.

Hearing this, I felt that my heart jumped into my throat and said to them: ‘Subhana Allaah, this is the great Faqih [scholar] of our time, At-Tartushi’.

They asked: ‘Why does he raise his hands then?’

I said: ‘This is the prophet’s Sunnah and Imam Maalik’s Madhhab as is narrated by the scholars of Madinah’.

Then I tried to keep them calm and quiet till the Shaikh finished his Salaat. We, then, returned back to the residence at the Muharris. The Shaikh noticed my anger and

inquired about the reason. I told him the whole thing.

He, then, laughed and said: ‘Indeed, I wish to be killed following the Sunnah’.

I said: ‘You should not do this; you are in a town where if you follow this Sunnah you will be killed’.

He then said: ‘leave aside this idle talk and lets discuss something more useful’.

Narrated by Imam Al Qurtubi in his tafsir vol 17 and Shatibi in his I’tisam

Ibn Abdil Hakam said: ‘Ibn Al-Qasim was the only one to relate from Malik that he used not to raise his hands in Salat. We believe in the opposite’.

(Al-Qawaanin Al-Fiqhiyyah)

Abdullah bin Yoosuf narrated to us, Malik ibn Anas infomed us, from Ibn Az-Zuhri, from Salim bin Abdullah, from his Father (Abdullah bin Umar),

Verily whenever Rasulullah used to start the Prayer, He used to raise both his hands up to his shoulders, and when he used to do Ruku’

saying Takbeer, and when rising up from Ruku’, He would raise them (the hands) likewise, and He did not do it (rafa’ al yadain) in the Sujud.

This narration is present in Sahih Bukhari (735).
In Muwatta Imam Malik (narrated by Ibn al-Qasim, and Muhammad al-Shaibani), this

this hadith is present with almost the same words and meaning.

Doing Rafa’ Al Yadain is proven from Imam Malik through several Authentic Isnads, (Check kitab Al-Tamheed by Imam Ibn Abdul Barr Al Maliki)

Sai’d Al Kamali doing Rafa’ Al Yadain.
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And people act like as if they don’t even know that Imam Malik Had two opinions.

Sheikh Al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah has indeed spoken the truth when he said:

You will not find any innovator except that he hides the (parts) of texts which oppose him, and he will hate those texts.He hates bringing up these texts, narrating them, mentioning them and hates acting

hates acting upon them. So like the Salaf said;

One does not start a single innovation except that the sweetness of narrating is removed from his heart.

(Kitab Majmoo' Al Fatawa Vol 20 By Sheikh Al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah)

Al-Mu’afi ibn ‘Imran reported: Al-Awza’i said, “A time will come to people in which the rarest thing of that era will be a friendly brother, or a lawfully-earned coin, or a practice from the Sunnah.”

(H‌ilyat al-Awliya‌’ 12995)

عَنْ الْمُعَافَى بْن عِمْرَانَ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ رحمه الله قَالَ يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ أَقَلُّ شَيْءٍ فِي ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ أَخٌ مُؤْنِسٌ أَوْ دِرْهَمٌ مِنْ حَلالٍ أَوْ عَمَلٌ فِي سُنَّةٍ
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