A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu Muhammad ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Hazm ( r.a. ) mentioned two ahadits used as proof by those who accuse others of disbelief and which they falsely attribute to the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ).  These are, “The Qadariyyah and Murji’ah are the magus of this ummah ;” and, “This ummah will divide into 70 or 70 something groups; all of them will be in Hellfire except one, which will be in Jannah .”  In his commentary on the two previously mentioned ahadits , Imam ibn Hazm ( r.a. ) said, “In the first place, their chains of transmission are unauthentic.  Any ahadits with an unauthentic ascription cannot be used as proof according to the opinion of the ahadits scholars who recognise the hadits with khabar al-wahid .  So, what then of those who do not recognise it?”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following article was taken from On Making-Up Missed Prayers: A Scholarly Consensus , 22 nd  November 2006.   In regard to the obligation of making up missed prayers, Imam Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi ( r.a. ) stated, in his al-Majmu’ Sharh al-Muhadzdzab , “There is ijma’ of the scholars whose opinion counts that whoever leaves a prayer intentionally must make it up.  Abu Muhammad ‘Ali ibn Hazm differed with them on this, saying that such an individual cannot ever make them up, and it is not at all valid to make them up.  Rather, he said, one must do many good works, and voluntary prayer in order that one’s scales be weighted on the Day of Judgement, and one must seek Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Forgiveness, and Repent.  This position of his, along with being in opposition to ijma` , is invalid in terms of the proof.  Among the proofs for the obligation to make up is that if make-up prayers are obligatory for ...