#ubayd

Al-Haafidh, may Allaah have mercy upon him, has said—as if within Al-Fat’h: “They both bear the same meaning.”

Therefore, why are you upset with us for refuting so and so or such and such? They say: “Don’t explicitly mention their names.” We say: The Salaf used to explicitly mention (their names). But if we submit to you (for argument’s sake), why are you upset at us for explicitly mentioning names? If you have predecessors—although they are only a few—who did not explicitly mention names, why are you upset at us? Why, when you have predecessors just as we have predecessors (who refuted and explicitly mentioned names)? So you are stuck in the middle.

Translated by: Raha ibn Donald Batts