Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the former director-general of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, has sparked controversy among activists on social media, after he published previous statements of his “weakness” in the hadith of the virtue of fasting a day. Arafat, in which it was stated: “Fasting the day of Arafah, I hope that God will expiate for the year before it and the year after it.”
This came in a tweet by Al-Ghamdi on his Twitter page, where he republished a previous report published by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Naba in 2013, quoting an article by him in the Saudi newspaper, Okaz, in which he stated: “Al-Ghamdi justified his article by reviewing some hadiths that refer to what he went to: Muslim and others came out on the authority of my father.” Qatada, on the authority of the Messenger of God, said: “Fasting on the day of Arafah. I hope that God will expiate the year before it and the year after it.” And it was narrated by a number of companions in ways that none of them is authentic. (Chapter of Fasting on the Day of Arafat) Ibn Hajar said: What is the ruling on it, as if the hadiths regarding the encouragement of fasting were not proven.. Al-Ayni asserted in the Umdah that the hadiths that encourage fasting on the Day of Arafat were not proven by Al-Bukhari.
And he continued, according to the report: “Ibn Jarir said in Tahdheeb al-Athar: ‘It was proven that a group of the predecessors hated fasting that day for everyone, in every place and every part of the earth, and some of them denied the news that was narrated on the authority of Abu Qatada on the authority of the Messenger of God about the virtue of fasting.” There are many differences in the hadith. In some of them, the words of the Prophet were directly transmitted, in some of them that Omar asked the Prophet, and in some of them that a man asked the Prophet, and in some of them that Abu Qatada said: I asked the Prophet.. and the hadith does not rise to a basis of goodness, let alone authenticity. In his saying: (He forgave him a year before him, and a year after him) is a denial of the commissioner’s daring to commit sins in the future, and the forgiveness of past sins has not been proven except for the Messenger of God and the people of Badr. It is an obligatory month in which the Prophet said: (Whoever fasts Ramadan out of faith and in the hope of reward, his previous sins will be forgiven) so the grace in it is limited to the forgiveness of what has preceded, and he did not mention in it the forgiveness of what will be received from it.
@inma_ksa @DAhmadq84 I don’t know what the sheikh thinks of someone who is going to fast on the day of Arafat when he knows whether he has a sin and does fasting on the day of Arafah become an innovation?
@ESSAM_212 @inma_ksa Whoever takes the saying of someone who corrects it and works with it, then he is an interpreter, he is excused for his interpretation, his actions and his intention to his Lord.
The owner of the ESSAM AHMED account commented on a tweet in which he said: “I don’t know what the sheikh thinks of someone who is going to fast on the Day of Arafa while he knows whether he has a sin and does fasting on the day of Arafah become an innovation?” Al-Ghamdi replied to him, saying: “Whoever takes the saying of someone who corrects it and acts according to it, then he is an interpreter, and he is excused for his interpretation, his actions, and his intention to his Lord.”
@DAhmadq84 @ESSAM_212 @inma_ksa Sheikh Ahmed, good, as long as it is an innovation and we have explained the evidence and what books you are reading. You do not know them. The second thing I say to you is whether God really descends and brags before the angels and testifies to them that he has forgiven them. Is this true or incorrect.
@eissasafhi1408 @ESSAM_212 @inma_ksa There is no authentic hadith that God forgives the people of Arafat. Rather, it is hoped for the one who performs the pilgrimage of goodness. This is one of the seasons of goodness and bounty that is the presumption of forgiveness and mercy, and it is true that the Messenger of God said: (He who performs Hajj and does not commit adultery or immorality, returns as the day his mother gave birth to him).
The owner of the Eissa safhi account commented, saying: “Sheikh Ahmed Tayeb, as long as it is a heresy, and we explained the evidence and what books you are reading. We do not know them. The second thing is what you say, did God really come down and brag before the angels and testify to them that he forgave them. Is this true or incorrect words”, to respond. Al-Ghamdi said: “It is not authentic to have a hadith that God forgives the people of Arafat. Rather, it is hoped for the one who performs a good pilgrimage, and this is one of the seasons of goodness and grace, which is a sign of forgiveness and mercy, and it is true that the Messenger of God said: (Whoever performs Hajj and does not commit adultery or immorality, he returns as the day his mother gave birth to him.”)