A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The mufti of Zabid, Yemen, Sayyid ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sulayman al-Ahdal ( q.s. ) said, “It is enough testimony against Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab that the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, ‘Their mark is that they shave,’ for this was never done by any of the sects of innovators before him.”   This was related by Imam Ahmad ibn Zayni ad-Dahlan ( r.a. ), in his book, Khulaswat al-Kalam fi Bayan Umara’ al-Balad al-Haram .   When ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab had a group of Muslims killed because they did not shave their heads as he required his followers to do, Sayyid al-Mun’ami ( r.a. ) wrote a lampoon whose first verse is:   “Is there, concerning shaving the head at sword point, An authentic hadits related from my ancestor, the Prophet?”   He even ordered the women who followed him to shave their heads.   Once he ordered a woman who entered his new religion to shave her head.   She replied, “If you ordered men to shave of...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ These ahadits are cited in the six books of authentic ahadits and have been collated mainly from the following two books written in refutation of the Wahhabi heresy.  Sayyid al-‘Alawi ibn Ahmad ibn Hasan ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Alawi al-Haddad ( r.a. ) wrote Miswbah al-Anam wa Jala’ az-Zalam fi Radd Shubah al-Bid’i an-Najdi allati Adalla biha al-‘Awamm , “The Lamp of Creatures and the Illumination of Darkness Concerning the Refutation of the Errors of the Innovator from Najd by Which He had Misled the Common People”.  It was published 1325H / 19907 CE.  Imam Ahmad ibn Zayni ad-Dahlan ( r.a. ), the Mufti of Makkah and Shaykh al-Islam in the Hijaz region of the Ottoman state, wrote Khulaswat al-Kalam fi Bayan Umara’ al-Balad al-Haram , “The Summation Concerning the Leaders of the Holy Sanctuary”.  In it, he has a chapter, “A History of the Wahhabi Fitnah in Najd and the Hijaz.”   Referring to the Khwarij , the Prophet ( s.a...