Beware Not Every Mistake Gets Overlooked

Question:

May Allah bless you O Shaykh,

Some people say:

“If a mistaken individual was from Ahlussunnah wal Jamā’ah, and a person had his share of good and knowledge of Islām, and it hasn’t become known from him that he intended the opposition which took place from him, then it’s a must that his status is preserved.

And that he is pardoned for his mistake, if we didn’t tread this path a lot of people of virtue in this Ummah wouldn’t be safe from us.”

What’s the correctness of this establishment?

Answer:

This generalisation is not correct.

Imām Ahmed, and other than him of the Imāms, have dropped people who were from the Imāms of Ahlul-Hadīth, like Ya’qūb bin Shaybah, due to a single mistake.

And they didn’t establish upon them this Khalafi principle in regards to those that deviated from the Sirātl Mustaqīm through

➖Opposing a clear foundation from the foundations of the Sunnah or a principle from the major principles of the legislation.

➖Or perpetrating many oppositions in the subsidiary issues those which many oppositions therein are tantamount to a major opposition.

So mistakes are not of the same level.

From the mistakes are those which contain obscurity, and what the question contains is implemented upon this.

So it’s a must that the critirion is being observed in this subject.

And I have mentioned them in my book (Bayān Ad-Dalīl) and (Al-Hujajul Kāshifa)

Answered by:
Shaykh Abu Hatim Yusuf Al-‘Inaabi Al-Jazaa’iree – may Allaah preserve him.

Source:
t.me/abouhatem/285

Answered on:
25th, Rabee’ Al-Aakhar, 1438H

Translated by:
Abu ‘Abdirrahman ‘Abdullaah bin Ahmed Ash-Shingaani.