Characteristics of the Strangers – Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid

Characteristics of the strangers, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The passing of Shaykh Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), and how knowledge is lost with the scholars
• The scholars protect the religion, while misguided leaders lead others astray
• The rise of the Khawārij, the Shīʿah and the Ṣūfīs
• The trials of the imāms of the Sunnah, such as the inquisition over the createdness of the Qurʾān
• Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī leaving the ʿaqīdah of the Muʿtazilah
• The early scholars of ḥadīth gathering and travelling to seek knowledge