The Sufi Answers to the Salafi

larger image

'The Sufi Answers
to the Salafi Calumnies'
[A5] Paperback - 190 pages,
by Gibril Fouad al-Haddad,
Foreword by Sayyid Yusuf Hashim al-Rifa'i,
Published by ISCA, USA.

Description :

A compendium of the Sunni proofs on the issues of tawassul (using intermediacy), tabarruk (getting blessings), ziyara (visit of graves), kashf (spiritual unveiling), karamat (miracles of saints) and the refutation of false accusations of “excessive love of the Prophet,” “grave-worship,” “forged hadiths” and more.

The book came out initially in Arabic in Damascus in 2007. Here now, 18 years later, is its expanded and annotated English version.

Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad was born in Beirut in 1380/1960. He embraced Islam while a graduate student in French literature at Columbia University in New York. Shayh Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licences (ijaza) from 200 shaykhs and has authored four dozen books and hundreds of artiles on Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, tasawwuf, biography and heresiology.

He currently lives and teaches in Dar al-Salam Brunei. Since 1997 he has published many translations of classical texts by the living masters of the past and present.

Table of Contents :

---Dedication and Epigraph,
---Foreword and Commendation
by Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa'i,
---Preamble.

Part One : Sunni Principles of Hadith Validation,

---1. The claim that Sufi's misquote Prophetic Hadiths,
---2. The claim that Sufi's authenticate inauthenticate Hadiths,
---3. Sufi's follow Concensus in accepting weak Hadiths,
---4. Even a very weak Hadith may convey a sound meaning,
---5. Do not call a lie a Hadith - and do not call a Hadith a lie!

Part Two : Love of the Prophet's Family and Denunciation of their Enemies:

---6. The Messenger of Allah, the Companions and the Successors all Warned about the Umayyads,
---7. Sufism and Sunnism are both defined by the inseparable love and respect of Ahl al-Bayt and the Companions.

Part Three : Grave Structures and Visitation to the People of Barzakh,

---8. The Salaf (pious predecessors] built structures over graves and visited them,
---9. Grave structures for Ulema, Awliya and Ahl al-Bayt,
---10. Travel to visit graves for Du'a, Tabarruk, Tawassul is a Sunna,
---11. Visit of the Prophets' Grave is Piety unrelated to the report "One does not travel other than to the three Mosques"
---12. The Hadiths " Do not make my grave a 'id" and "Whosoever visits my grave, my intercession must take place for him"
---13.
---14.
---15.
---16.
---17.
---18.
---19.
---20.