Ibn al-Mibrad al-Hanbali said after listing the hadiths regarding the virtues of the sultan and obedience to him:
“It is astonishing how some immoral so-called jurists recount these hadiths to many taghah (tyrants), those who have immersed themselves in zulm (oppression), wallowed in it, and swum in its depths.
They seize people’s wealth unlawfully, kill forbidden souls over a thousand times without justification, violate people’s wealth, lives, and honor, and yet these false jurists embellish their actions by declaring them just.
They say, ‘If not for you, if not for you,’ aiming to gain favor and elevate their status with the oppressors! May Allah not increase the likes of them among the Muslims.
How astonishing, truly astonishing, is the filthy dog devoid of religion and intellect, yet he claims to be a faqih (jurist). He enters upon the kafir, oppressing, wicked tyrants in the ninth and tenth centuries and adorns their actions, portraying them as just and fair, even as they spill the blood of the innocent, disregard the sanctity of Muslims lives, wealth, and honor!
Even more appalling is how some among them justify such tyranny, claiming it to be good, arguing falsely that some Imams of Islam permitted killing two-thirds of the population for the sake of the one-third, or other such fabrications.
All of this is falsehood, slander, and lies against the Imams. It has no basis or foundation in truth. I have written a treatise addressing this matter.
Anyone possessing Iman (faith) and understanding knows that it is impermissible to kill even the least significant Muslim soul unjustly, for the so-called benefit of anyone, no matter who they are. If all the people on earth were to conspire to kill a single Muslim soul without right, Allah would throw them all into the depths of Hell because of it.”
Imam Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Hanbali (Ibn al-Mibrad) died in the year 909 Hijri]
Īḍāḥ Ṭuruq al-Istiqāmah, 123-124.
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