S͟hayk͟h ʿArafāt ibn Ḥasan Al-Muḥammadī (ḥafiẓahullāh) writes:

Nizār Hāshim As-Sūdānī used to feign respect for our teacher, S͟hayk͟h ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbdir-Raḥīm (ḥafiẓahullāh), portraying him as one of the senior scholars (Al-Akābir). He would even describe him as “the father-figure” and “the ʿAllāmah.” Yet, in order to nullify all of these praises, he accused him of opposing the Sunnah—without any sound, explicit evidence or proof!

After the flood of attacks that Nizār Hāshim spewed against our teacher, Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbdullāh Al-Buk͟hārī, Nizār Hāshim today published an accusation declaring S͟hayk͟h Al-Buk͟hārī to be deviant, claiming that he has changed, altered, and opposed the Sunnah.

This was stated explicitly in a new audio recording in which he said: “I have not changed, in-shāʾ-Allāh, nor have the steadfast Salafis who are known for Salafiyyah changed or altered. They remain as they are, and we ask Allāh to grant us all steadfastness. But S͟hayk͟h Al-Buk͟hārī has changed and altered, opposed the senior scholars, and brought strange and suspicious matters that have no connection to knowledge.”

And he said: “He is the one who changed and altered, and came with strange and astonishing things.”

And he said: “Dr. Al-Buk͟hārī has opposed the Sunnah in many issues.”

This deceptive path that Nizār Hāshim follows, aimed at dismantling and nullifying the commendations of our teacher, S͟hayk͟h ʿAbdullāh Al-Buk͟hārī, is one of the known methodologies of the Ḥaddādiyyah, as stated by our S͟hayk͟h Rabīʿ (raḥimahullāh) in ‘The Danger of the New Ḥaddādiyyah’:

“A deceptive gradualism, similar to the method of the Bāṭiniyyah—though we do not say they are Bāṭiniyyah—but we see that they resemble them in gradualism and fickleness. For until recently, they would pretend to respect a group of scholars and would claim that whoever opposed them had disbelieved in Islām, denied the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, and demolished Islām, while passionately calling people to blindly follow them. Then, when they thought that their strength had grown and their foundations had solidified, they declared war against them, belittled their statements, and emboldened the lowly against them. Such is how they proceed gradually in their daʿwah.”

The speech of Nizār Hāshim regarding S͟hayk͟h Al-Buk͟hārī mirrors, rather, surpasses in vileness, the speech of the worse than the Ḥaddādiyyah against our S͟hayk͟h Rabīʿ (raḥimahullāh), in his accusation of him having deviated from the Sunnah.

As stated by Khālid ʿAbdur-Raḥmān Al-Miṣrī: “Therefore, if my previous words were not directed at a specific scholar, then my words tonight are directed at that scholar—the father-figure—who has deviated from the Sunnah in this matter, which is a fundamental principle of our religion.”

These attacks will not harm our S͟hayk͟h, in-shāʾ-Allāh, as stated by our S͟hayk͟h ʿUbayd Al-Jābirī (raḥimahullāh):

“They are working against S͟hayk͟h ʿAbdullāh Al-Bukhārī, may Allāh protect him, and protect us and you from all evil. S͟hayk͟h ʿAbdullāh Al-Buk͟hārī is a ʿAllāmah, by Allāh, a ʿAllāmah. We have known him for a long time. By Allāh, we say to them: perish in your rage. We say to those attacking S͟hayk͟h ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbdir-Raḥīm Al-Buk͟hārī, may Allāh preserve him, whoever hears this and is granted success in his speech and hearing, let him hear: a ʿAllāmah, a man of Sunnah, a person of Ḥadīth. So we say to those slandering him: you are transgressors. And we say to you: perish in your rage.”

3rd Shaʿbān 1447AH

Translation: Zubayr ʿAbbāsī