new examples that confirm some of the traits we ascribed to him there, sparing me from repeating the earlier proofs here. Let us cite a few of these examples so that the reader may see that Abu Ghuddah’s conduct is far worse than that!
New examples
First: He says (p. 10), while referring to the Introduction to the commentary on al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya: “It is stuffed with what conflicts with the loftiness of the sublime creed—coarse abuse, slander, reviling, and takfīr.”
I reply: his word “takfīr” is one of his fabrications that lays bare the malice within him; by it he wishes to convince the readers of the baseless myth he and his fellow devotees of superstition propagate, namely that the Salafis declare Muslims unbelievers. We challenge him to pinpoint the place in the Introduction—only a few pages long—where I allegedly cast the charge of unbelief at him. If he cannot—and he never will—people will know he is a forger and a liar. Should he persist, we are ready, if Allah wills, for mutual imprecation, as in His statement: “If anyone disputes with you about it after knowledge has come to you, then say: ‘Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves; then let us pray earnestly and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liars.’” (Qurʾān 3:61).
As for “reviling,” it does us no harm, for it is deserved and legitimate, as I showed in the Introduction (p. 43). Regarding “slander,” if he merely means insult, it is the same as reviling and its answer is already known; he is only multiplying terms to cause confusion. But if he means the juridical accusation of fornication, then it is a lie like the one before it. The same holds for his charge of “obscene abuse.” Al-Qāmūs says: “qadhaʿahu, like manaʿahu: he accused him of obscenity and foul words, and likewise aqdhaʿahu.”
Second: He writes (pp. 10–11): “He described me time after time as a Hanafi, casting it as an insult and a reproach, for they think that belonging to Imām Abū Ḥanīfa—or any of the other eminent imams who are followed—is a stigma and a deficiency.”