—the statement of Allah, Most High, about the Christians: “They took their rabbis and monks as lords apart from Allah,” as Fakhr al-Rāzī has clarified in his Qur’anic exegesis.

The third category comprises those who obey the political authorities in the systems and decrees they impose on the people when those regulations contradict the Sacred Law—communism and the like. The worst of them are the ones who strive to make it appear that such systems actually agree with the Sharīʿah and do not oppose it. This calamity has swept across many who claim knowledge and reform in our own times, until a great number of ordinary people have been deceived by it. Thus the earlier verse—“They took their rabbis and monks as lords apart from Allah”—has become applicable to them and to those they follow. We ask Allah for His protection and well-being.

182 – “When any one of you visits his brother and sits with him, he must not rise to leave until he has sought his permission.”

Abū Shaykh narrated it in Tārīkh Iṣfahān (113): Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥakīm told us; he said: Yaḥyā ibn Wāqid told us; he said: Ibn Abī Ghaniyyah told us; he said: My father told us; he said: Jabalah ibn Suhaym narrated from Ibn ʿUmar who said: The Prophet ﷺ said this.

I say: This isnād is authentic; all of its transmitters are trustworthy and well known.

Jabalah ibn Suhaym is trustworthy; al-Bukhārī cited him in al-Adab al-Mufrad.

Ibn Abī Ghaniyyah is Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥumayd ibn Abī Ghaniyyah—trustworthy and included by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim—and the same applies to his father ʿAbd al-Malik.

As for Yaḥyā ibn Wāqid, Abū Shaykh gave him a biographical notice and said: