Mountains of Knowledge

With the aim of actualising the statement of the revered Imaam Maalik ibn Anas (died 179H), “The latter part of the Ummah will not be corrected except by that which corrected its first part,” this is a presentation of the Creed and Methodology of the early generations known as the Salaf as-Saalih, as preserved in some extant manuscripts and documents that have been verified by early and latter day scholars of the Sunnah. It is not hidden from any and every Muslim, the earlier one goes back in history, the purer and cleaner the religion becomes, until we reach the era of the Companions of Allaah’s Messenger (sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam). It was to these noble and virtuous people to whom he said, “I have left you upon clear proof, its night is like its day, no one deviates from it except that he is destroyed. Whomsoever amongst you lives for long will see great differing, so stick to what you know from my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs. Cling to that with your molar teeth.” For this reason we find some of the successors to the Companions advising those in their times to stick to the original state of affairs as it was in the era of the Companions, for it is through that Methodology alone that the Muslims will be united and their strength and glory realised.