Moulana
Zakariyah
encourages
people to
seek the
intercession
of Allah’s
Messenger (sallallahu
alaihi
wa-sallam)
and says in
Fazaail-e-Hajj
(p.151)
“After
greeting the
Prophet,
pray to
Allah
through the
name of the
Messenger of
Allah.
Beg the
intercession
of Allah’s
Messenger.
Many learned
ones
consider it
prohibited
to accept
Waseelah.”[1]
Imam Abu
Haneefah is
among the
‘many
learned
ones’
mentioned by
Moulana
Zakariyah as
those who
prohibit the
innovative
form of
Waseelah of
asking Allah
by honor or
virtue of
the
righteous.
It occurs in
Durrul-Mukhtar
(a famous
book on
Hanafee
Fiqh)
(2/630),
‘From Abu
Haneefah:
“It is not
fitting at
all that
anyone
should
supplicate
to Allah
except by
Him (Allah),
and using
such
supplications
have been
permitted
and ordered
in the like
of the
Saying of
Allah, the
Most High,
“And (all)
the Most
Beautiful
Names belong
to Allah, so
call upon
Him by
them.”
Its like is
also found
in al-Fatawa
al-Hindiyyah
(5/280), and
al-Qudooree[3]
said in his
large book
of Fiqh
called
Sharahul-Kharkhee
in the
chapter of
detested
matters:
“Bishr Ibn
al-Waleed
said: ‘Abu
Yusuf (one
of the main
students of
Imam Abu
Haneefah)
narrated to
us that Abu
Haneefah
said: ‘It is
not right
that anyone
should
supplicate
to Allah
except by
Him, and
I hate that
anyone
should say:
‘By the
right of so
and so’ or
‘By the
right of
your
Prophets and
Messengers’
or ‘By the
right of
your sacred
house and
the sacred
area (of
Muzdalifah).”[4]
Az-Zubaydee
says in
Sharah-Ihyaa
(2/285):
“Abu
Haneefah and
his two
companions
hated that a
person
should say,
‘I ask You
by the right
of so and
so’ or ‘By
the right of
Your
Prophets and
Messengers’
or ‘By the
right of the
sacred house
and sacred
area (of
Muzdalifah)’
and the
like, since
no one has
any right
upon Allah.
Likewise,
Abu Haneefah
and Mohammed
Ibn Hasan
ash-Shaybanee[5]
hated that a
person who
made
supplication
should say:
‘O Allah I
ask you by
the glory of
Your
Throne.’”
Al-Qudooree
also said:
“Asking Him
by His
creation is
not allowed
since the
creation had
no right
over the
Creator,
therefore it
cannot be
allowed.”[6]
From these
quotes it is
clearly seen
that Imam
Abu Haneefah
and his
students
hated the
kind of
Waseelah
that the
Deobandis
promote
enthusiastically.
The
Deobandis
claim to be
staunch
Hanafees and
oblige a
Hanafee to
follow the
Madhhab of
the Imam in
every aspect
of the
religion,
lest it is
feared that
he may loose
his
religion.
[7]
Yet, they
completely
ignore the
teachings of
Imam Abu
Haneefah on
Waseelah.
Mufti Abdur
Rahim
Lajpuri ,
the
prominent
Deobandi
scholar and
author of
Fatawa
Rahimiyyah,
refutes the
very saying
of Imam Abu
Haneefah, “I
hate that
anyone
should say:
‘By the
right of so
and so’ or
‘By the
right of
your
Prophets and
Messengers’
or…”
He (Mufti
Abdur Rahim
Lajpuri)
says, “(to
say) O
Allah! For
the right of
such and
such! (Ilahi
Behaq-e-fulan!)
is proper.
Some divines
have
dissented
from the
word
‘Bahaqq-e’
and have
argued on
the basis of
the saying,
‘The
creatures
have no
right upon
the
Creator.’
But this is
not
correct.”[8]
The
Deobandis
thus refute
the correct
beliefs of
their Imam,
though they
dare not
mention his
name, rather
say:
“Many
learned ones
consider it
prohibited…”
or “Some
divines have
dissented
from the
word…”
as in the
statements
of both,
Moulana
Zakariyah
and Mufti
Abdur Rahim
Lajpuri.
[1]
Fazaail-e-Aamaal,
(Eng.
Trans.),
Virtues
of Hajj
Chapter.9,
p.151,
no.32,
(New
Edition
1982,
Published
by Dini
Book
Depot -
Delhi)
[2]
Taken
from the
book
“Tawassul
- its
types
and its
rulings”
by the
leading
Hadeeth
scholar
of our
times,
Shaikh
Naasiruddeen
al-Albanee.
Pgs.45-47.
[3]
He is
Abu
Hasan
Ahmad
Ibn
Muhammad
Ibn
Ja’far
Ibn
Hamdan,
the
scholar
of Fiqh
and he
was the
teacher
of al-Khateebul-Baghdaadee.
He was
born in
362H and
died in
428H.
[5]
He too
is among
the
prominent
students
of Imaam
Abu
Haneefah.
[6]
Shaikh
al-Islam
Ibn
Taymiyyah
reports
this in
al-Qaa’idatul-Jalijjah.
[7]
It has
been
mentioned
in
Kitabul-Imaan
that:
“Belief
in the
Islamic
concept
of
Taqleed
is
essential
for the
protection
of
Eemaan.
Without
Taqleed,
one
cannot
obtain a
true
understanding
of
Eemaan
and
Islam.
The
concept
of
Taqleed
(to
follow a
particular
Madhhab)
is an
obligatory
injunction
of the
Sharee’ah…
Anyone
searching
for the
Haqq,
for
guidance
and for
the
Sunnah
beyond
the
confines
of these
four
Madhaahib
(plural
of
Madhhab)
is bound
to plod
the path
of
deviation
at the
peril of
his
Eemaan…
When a
person
switches
from one
Madhhab
to
another
Madhhab,
he shall
be
inflicted
with
Ta’zeer.
[Ta’zeer
refers
to
punishment
meted
out by
an
Islamic
court.
Such
punishment
may
either
be
flogging
or
imprisonment.]…
Strict
adherence
to a
particular
Madhhab
is an
essential
requirement
of the
Sharee’ah…
Trifling
therewith
by
flitting
from one
Madhhab
to
another
spell
the
ultimate
ruin of
one’s
Imaan. [Kitabul
Imaan,
p.72-74]
