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Do Salafis Really Follow the Daleel? (With examples showing how prominent Salafis such as Albani, Dr. Zakir Naik, Assim al-Hakeem, Dr. Muhammad Salah do not follow the daleel)

About the Second Edition: Oftentimes we, the madhab followers, are accused by those who describe themselves as Salafis, of not following daleel (evidence) but instead following a madhab. I have come across some who cannot even read a verse of the Qur’an without making serious mistakes, yet they claim to be able to interpret and follow the daleel. One wonders how can someone in such a state follow and interpret daleel? Through a series of exchanges and observations, I found them to be nothing more than blind imitators of the contemporary Salafi teachers. These very teachers claim to understand, interpret, and follow the daleel all while promoting anti-madhabism. At length, I came to realize that when a young man of utmost ignorance claims to follow the deleel instead of imitating an Imaam of a madhab, he is in fact insinuating that his Salafi teacher follows the daleel but the Imaams of the four madhabs don’t. Thus, I wanted to find out to what extent the learned Salafis or the Salafi teachers themselves follow the daleel (evidence). What is meant by “following the daleel” is that a qualified scholar gathers, on a given subject, all the proofs and then derives a ruling following the thorough analysis of the complete body of evidence (daleel). This involves sifting through a quarter of a million hadith spread across more than three hundred hadith books as well as hundreds of volumes of books of each madhab. One of the prominent Salafi teachers by the name of Shaykh Albani put it as follows: “I examine the positions of the Imams and their evidences for them, and then take the closest of them to the evidence of the Qur’an and Sunna” Thus, if we find a learned Salafi giving fatwas without knowing the positions or the evidences of the Imams, he is betraying this principle. I selected three examples from learned Salafis, including the owner of the above quotation, to demonstrate to the reader that in fact Salafi teachers do not adhere to their own principle. If they stopped at that, we would have said that is their choi

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