Abu 'Abdullaah Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Mufarraj said: "Abu Ja'far Ahmad bin 'Awn illaah (d. 378H, rahimahullaah) would show rejection against Ahlul-Bid'ah and call them to account, showing extreme harshness against them, utterly humiliating them, always seek to pick out their faults, rushing to damage them, vehemently [stern] against them, chasing them away whenever he was able to, not allowing them to remain. And every one of them (Ahlul-Bid'ah) used to be frightened of him, and would seek to hide and protect himself from him. He (Abu Ja'far Ahmad) would never compromise with a single one of them, and nor would he allow any of them to remain safe. And if he came across evil and witnessed any deviation from the Sunnah, he would oppose it and would disgrace and humiliate (its perpetrator), and he would announce the affair of this person and declare his own disownment of him by mentioning the evil of such a one in the various public gatherings, and he would incite others against him such that he either destroyed him or caused him to abandon his evil and repugnant madhhab and his evil doctrine. And he would never cease to remain upon this habit, making Jihaad therein - seeking the Face of Allaah - up until he met Allaah." [Taareekh Dimashq 5/118]
And he is the Muhaddith, Imaam Ahmad bin 'Awn illaah bin Hudair Abu Ja'far al-Andalusee al-Qurtubee (d. 378H, rahimahullaah).
Imaam Abu 'Uthmaan as-Saaboonee (d. 449H, rahimahullaah) said: "And along with that, they [the Salaf] unanimously agreed with their saying about Ahlul-Bid'ah, that they should be subdued, humiliated and disgraced, banished and driven away. That [one must] keep away from them, from those who associate with them and from those who are intimate with them. And to seek nearness to Allaah by avoiding them and fleeing from them." ['Aqeedat us-Salaf wa Ashaabil-Hadeeth]
Shaykh Zayd Ibn Hadee al-Madkhalee (d. 1435H, rahimahullaah) said: "The innovator is the cause for splitting; because splitting is connected to bid'ah, and unity is connected to the Sunnah. The obligation of refuting the Mukhaalif is not lifted from the scholar due to anticipation of harm, unless it is harm he is not able to bear. Then (in this case), Allaah does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear. The earth is not devoid of people of knowledge who will carry out refutation against the Mubtadi' and the Mukhaalif." [Al-Ajwibah Al-Mukhtasar 'Alaa As`ila Al-Ashrati (Pgs, 43-44)]
How can someone say that a person whom is a Salafy Caller, is a "Troublemaker" and the reason for dividing the people or communities, when Shaykh Zayd and others say that the "innovator is the cause for splitting" and that splitting is "connected to bidah"..?
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