What is Salafi and four Imams

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Peace

Well I will try to be here a little bit more explicit.

Alsalaf are really called <b>Al- Salaf Al-Saleh</b> they come under three categories according to certain periods.

1- Al- Sahaba, who fall under two

categories as well :



A- Al-Muhajereen, they are the people

of mekka who immegrated to madeena

fleeing from the kuffar torturing.

B- Al- Ansar, they are the people of

Madeena who supported the prophet

and the Muhajereen.



These two were the ones that lived with the prophet, fought with him, supported him with their lives and money,and saw all his moves, doings and heard his ahadeeth, memorized them and wrote them, and they are to us like stars that enlighten our path after the prophet (pbuh).




2- The tabee'en as sister Muslimah said the successors, they are the children of the sahaba, who were born after the prophet's death.




3- Atba'a altabeen, are the third generation after the prophet. And those who are Known to be rightous and very relegious people, who do not lie, or commit any sin.

So these are considered to ba Al-Salaf Al-Saleh( The Virtous ancestrals)

And they are the ones who memorized the Quran wrote it on papers, and memorized the ahadeeth as well.

The Imams are the ones sister Muslimah said, and they were known to be very pious and virtous and they used to travel a very long time to find one trustworthy hadeeth for the prophet and they used to be very strict in chosing the preson who will tell them the hadeeth.

And I will mention a brief story here our scholar narrated it to us about Al-Bukhary, he travelled one year to search for a hadeeth, someone had told him about a person that had one hadeeth that the Bukhary does not have, it took him almost one year to reach that man, when he went to him the man excused him for a while he wanted his camel to sit or do something (I dont remember ) anyways, so he made as if there was food in his hand, which means he deceived the animal, so when Al-Bukhary saw this, and the man came to him to tell him the hadeeth, he said no thanku I don't need your hadeeth,the man was astonished and said :why? he told him : if u lied to an animal what will stop u to lie to humans

u r not a pious man, so he left him and did not take the hadeeth. So that is why

we trust ahadeeth from these four Imams, because they spent all their lives, money and health searching and studying the sunnah of prophet Mohammad(pbuh) and did not accept these ahadeeths from non trustworthy or unpious men.

I hope I detailed a bit, I know I talked much, but I hope I added more here and I hope everything is clear to u.

If u need more explanation, Insha'Allah

we are all willing to help.

PEACE