The Clarification of Contemporary Sects

However, after the death of al-Rabīʿ, al-Beyli reinvented himself as an admirer of ʿAllāmah al-Rabīʿ (رحمه الله), delivering lectures in his defense to win over the hearts of al-Bukhari and ʿArafāt. He even travelled to meet them to strengthen his ties with them.

Knowing that they did not approve of Raslān and other followers of Muḥammad bin Hādī, he exploited this situation, using their mutual animosity as a weapon to earn favour with their adversaries—specifically al-Bukhārī and ʿArafāt. He sought to re-establish a connection to Shaykh Rabīʿ to regain fame after having been sidelined in the daʿwah arena during the Shaykh’s lifetime.

Here are the demands Sheikh Nizar Hashim—may Allah preserve him—addressed to Dr. Abdullah Al-Bukhari:

1 - Sheikh Nizar called upon Dr. Al-Bukhari to abandon misleading generalizations. Dr. Al-Bukhari had described the conflict in Sudan by referring to “criminals” without specifying who they were, thereby creating the false impression that the army and the rebels were on equal footing. Sheikh Nizar urged him to openly declare the truth and to explicitly identify the Khawarij by name.

8 - He is challenged to align himself with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s clear stance of supporting the Sudanese state, rather than joining Arafat’s camp in spreading suspicious ambiguity!

Al-Rifaʾī is following up on the failed attempts of his companion, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī to expel me from Salafiyyah and split the daʿwah here in the UK because I contested his lies, distortions and fabrications and violation of the Salafī methodology in how to deal with Ahl al-Sunnah, upon the way of Fāliḥ al-Ḥarbī and Muḥammad bin Hādī. So al-Rifāʾī has come on to the scene and is looking for scraps which he can use to aid the cause of his companion.

And in this, we see the strangest type of Salafiyyah, whereby you praise misguided innovators who attack the Imāms of the Sunnah and have your students benefit from them, after the Salafi scholars declared him astray—because of the “shuffling of the deck”—yet you seek to destroy Salafīs who have a long history of defending the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah from these very accusations, by lying upon them, fabricating against them, and twisting their speech in the most horrendous manner, and accusing them of what they are innocent of, just because they are obstacles to your nefarious agendas. However, you make excuses for misguided innovators, praise them a lot and send your students to them! This is a counterfeit type of Salafiyyah.

Abd al-Ilāh al-Rifāʿī is said to be a former student and follower of the extreme Ḥaddādī known as ʿAbd Allāh al-Jarbūʿ and his nurturing as a youth is said to be an Ikhwānī one, with affiliation to and defence of the likes of ʿĀʾiḍ al-Qarnī, Nāṣir al-ʿUmar and others, having only entered Salafiyyah during or at the end of his undergraduate studies at the Jāmiʿah. This is what is said—and it may be that he repented from that way, but sometimes a man's past can remain with him unless his repentance has been genuine, deep and truly rectifying—and as such, this man's background needs further investigation for verification and corroboration, due to his suspect activities.[1]

Coming to the issue, an audio recording and translated transcript of some speech of al-Rifāʿī was posted on social media today, 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1446 (2 June 2025), which was intended as a refutation against me in relation to an entry on the Brixton Contract. It's unclear to me as to why al-Rifāʿī seems so sensitive and offended by the contents of that entry, unless he has a guilty conscience and feels that the article applies to him.