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From the Methods of Ahlul-Bidah is Distorting the image of the person of the truth to deceive the people and misconstrue the truth

As-Shaykh Rabee' Ibn Hādī Al-Madkhalī -حفظه الله-said: O Brothers, The one who wants to reject the truth will come with the faults of the person of the truth, this is what the disbelievers are upon from the Jews, Christians and the idolaters and this is what the people of innovation are upon. The people of innovation might compete with the disbelievers in Lying and destorting the image of the people of the truth, just as they destorted the image of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ahmed ibn Hanbil and other than them from the Imāms of the Sunnah, and just as they destorted the image of Imām Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahāb, how much did they oppress him and lie on him, so they deceive the gullible and foolish by  misconstruing the truth and distorting the image of the one who came with it. (From:Ad-Dhiriy'ah 1/495) قال الشيخ ربيع المدخلي-حفظه اللّه تعالى- "يا إخوة، الذي يريد أن يرد الحق يأتي بعيوب لصاحب الحق،هذا ما عليه الكفار من اليهود و النصارى و الوثنيون و أهل البدع. أهل البدع قد يبارون ا

Giving precedence to the elders is not general

Giving precedence to the elders is not general Ibn Battāl Rahimahullah said in the explanation of Saheeh Al-Bukhārī vol.9 pg. 317 and 318 in the Maktaba alrushd print Honouring the elders and putting them first in speaking and in all affairs is from the manners and excellent morals of Islām, and Abdur-Razzaq mentioned in the Hadeeth (from glorifying Allāh's loftiness is respecting those who have reached old age in Islām) and with this meaning the Prophet ﷺ said:(The elder the elder) So he ordered  to let the elder be the first one too speak, so this is a Sunnah, but the Hadeeth of Ibn 'Umar proves that the meaning of this is not general, in fact it is incumbent that the elder starts speaking in that which the young and old are equal in knowledge, but if the youth knew that which the elder was ignorant of, then it is incumbent for the one who has knowledge to mention it and put it forth, even if he was young, and that is not considered bad manners or being short with the rig