In the Name of Allah,
I thought to mention some of Muhammad Zâhid al-Kawthari’s infamous sayings so that people may realize to what kind of a man others ally themselves with in terms of friendship, association, appreciation or even recommendation.
I will make use of the Index entitled, ‘Index of Insults of al-Kawthari, and his Lies, and his Contradictions, and his Game-playing, and his Jahmite Doctrines, and his Grave-worshipping Superstitions’, starting from page 582 untill page 636, containing an incredible number of 328 items or indications of irreligion, from the book ‘The Maturidiyyah and their Position concerning the Tawhid of Names & Attributes’.
The following facts – selected from the 328 items – are worth to mention as a warning, advise and remembrance for those who are sincere in learning the truth about this man.
I skip items no.1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which are all despicable, mention the content of no.6: Takfir of Imam Abdallah b. Ahmad b. Hanbal.
Items no.7 and 8 are attacks and condemnation of the beliefs of Imam al-Bukhari and Imam Abu dawud.
Item no.9 is also a Takfir of an Imam: al-Darimi.
Item no.10 and 11 are vilifying the Huffâdh Ibn Abi Hatim and al-Daraqutni, calling the latter a Fâsiq, Mâriq and a possessor of Khirâfât!
Let me skip the Takfir of Imam al-A’imma Ibn Khuzaymah from item no.12 and his vilification of Ibn Mandah and al-Ajurri, two major Huffâdh, in the subsequent items and go for no.17: his vilification of Imam al-Lalika’i's creed and book on ‘Aqidah.
Item no.18, i.e. his outburst against one of the greatest Huffâdh al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, we leave the pleasure of exposing his vile attacks against him for another such as – and I quote (sorry Abu Zubair, could not resist revealing this one):
“..abandoner of Prayer, drinker of alcohol, a practioner of homosexuality..”
and I leave the rest for you.
Item no.19 wherein he – may Allah give him his due! – brings Imam al-Shâfi’i to task, questioning his knowledge, his genealogy (!) and his high status.
Item no.20 is accusing the student of Imam al-Shafi’i, the Hafidh al-Humaydi, of fabricating and expressing major lies.
Let me skip what he said about Ibn Hibbân, Ibn Abi Shaybah, the teacher of al-Ash’ari who is Imam Zakariya al-Sâji, Abu ‘Awanah, al-Fazari, ‘Ali b. al-Madini etc. etc. etc. untill we reach item no.31 wherein he says that Abu Bakr al-Khallal, the codifier of the Hanbali Madhhab, is misguided.
Item no.35 and 36 are vilifications of Abu Nu’aym al-Isbahani and Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi, having skipped no.33 wherein mention is that the man lied more then once about Abu’l-Shaykh al-Isfahani and no.34 wherein is stated that he lied once about al-Hakim al-Nisaburi.
Item no.37 is an insult against al-Barbahari.
And the most apparent – and famous – is item no.38 and that is about Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah – and I semi-quote:
Takfir of Ibn Taymiyyah – Accusing him of Kufr and Ilhâd – Criticism of Islam – Hypocrisy – Zandaqah – Wickedness – Declaring him Misguided and Misguiding others and some in transcription so you might feel them coming better: al-mâriq al-khabîth, al-kadhâb al-asharr al-affâk al-muftari, al-mubtadi’ al-jâhil al-miskîn – and the most ‘beatiful’ is – wârith al-sâbi’iyyah wa-min a’zam al-zâ’ighin, by which I end it.
Item no.39 is about – well you can guess – Ibn al-Qayyim. And in another book by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd therein was mentioned many of the man’s insult and declarations of hypocrisy, unbelief, heresy etc. and I urge any interesting reader to find out that book. I will skip this item – and it is probably more despicable than the previous – wa-Allahu Musta’an!
Item no.42 is about his insults and vilification of Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi, while no.43 is – and this is a good one, one for the Daily Sun – his – I quote:
“..judgement of the Imam al-Shawkani of being a Jew who hide [his Islam] among the Muslims so to blacken their religion..”
Item no.48 is about his attack on Sa’id b. Abi Hilal whom I like to mention because of a small paper I’m trying to finish concering the Attribute of Shin, a narrator who is Thiqat.
Item no.52 is about Anas b. Malik, may Allah be pleased with him as the Prophet was pleased with him as a servant and Companion! And his attack of this noble Companion is by now well-known. No.53, 54 and 55 are also about his ‘descretion’ when it comes to the Companions – the best of generations ever brought into this world.
In item no.55 it is said – for example – that he doubted the Islam of the father of ‘Imrân b. Husayn, a noble Companion.. just to remember!
Item no.58, 59 and those thereafte are also interesting, but I shall mention them – may Allah wish it! – in a later bio of this man. Sufficient is to mention no.62 which concerns his defense and apology for Ibn Sina (a Hanafite, just like him and thousands of Mu’tazilites, Batinites and other irreligous people) who is known as a great Mulhid and Zindiq – even the uneducated know that. But alas!
Item no.70 is a very funny: magnifying al-Hasan b. Ziyad al-Lu’lu’i who has been declared a Kadhâb and giving him preference above his contemporary the Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal..
Item no.71 is about Ibn al-Thalji – and I posses al-Kawthari’s shameless book concerning him and others – the well-known Kadhab who would invent anthropomorphic narrations and ascribe them to prominent Imams to incriminate them; and then this al-Kawthari applauds for this man!
Item no.77 is very interesting cause it speaks about al-Kawthari’s rejection and condemnation of authors and their books. One of al-Kawthari’s principles is that any book bearing a title which reads something like ‘al-Tawhid’, ‘al-Uluww’, ‘al-Sifat’, ‘al-Sunnah’, al-Shariah’ etc. all these books are compilations of Tasjim (corporealism) and Tashbih (anthropomorphism).
Item no.89 is about Ibn Khuzaymah’s book Kitab al-Tawhid called by him: Kitab al-Shirk and Wathaniyyah (paganism).
Item no.90 is Abdallah b. Ahmad’s K. al-Sunnah: Kitab of Unbelief and Paganism. Something similar is said about al-Darimi’s book in no.91.
Interesting for those doubters is item no.93: al-Sifat of al-Daraqutni (which the man never rejects) is from the books of the Mujassimah. And the list continues.
Item no.101 is al-Shari’ah by al-Ajurri the Imam: from the books of Tasjim.
Item no.115 can also be send straight to the Daily Sun: alleging that the famous booklet of Ibn Taymiyyah in defense of the Four Imams called ‘Raf al-Malam’ has been authored by him as a protection, i.e. hypocritically.
Items no.122 till 139 are about Jahmite or Jahmite-like books which al-Kawthari praises and recommends. But no need to mention these shamefull facts.
Item no.169 is his claim that it is impermissible to ask ‘Where is Allah?’, at the same time attacking the famous narration which proves otherwise. Beside having opposed the Prophet’s tacit approval of the question and the questioner, what will he do with Ibn Kullâb’s condemnation of those who forbid this Sunnah?
Item no.204 wherein is mention that al-Ash’ari is actually a Hanafite according to him.
Item no.205 wherein is mention of one of his many clear lies: that a certain Zâfil is the grandfather of Ibn al-Qayyim! My God, this man should have been head of the Daily Sun redaction!
Item no.210 concerns his claims about the Ibanah, i.e. that it has been tampered or concoted and wherein I know not a single one before him who said something likewise (except maybe one). See also no.239 and no.284.
Item no.215: his other clear lie by saying that the phrase ‘His Shin’ with the predicate ‘his’ can nowhere to be found in any Hadith (!), not an authentic one (!!!) nor an inauthentic one (!!!!!!)..
Item no.244, 245 and 246 are about his lies on Ibn Hajar, al-Hafidh.
Item no.248 – and I hope for this that he truelly receives what is due to him in the grave, before being brought on the plain of Resurrection wherein his victim will receive his good share whatever has been left of it given to previous Imams – and that is: accusing the student of Ibn Taymiyyah of having added and changed (!) in the Qur’an (!!!) and Sunnah.. wa-Allahu Musta’an.