"KHARIJITES - DOGS OF HELL"

"KHARIJITES - DOGS OF HELL"

WHO ARE KHAWARIJ?

"I asked Sahl bin Hunaif, "Did you hear the Prophet saying anything about Al-Khawarij?" He said, "I heard him saying while pointing his hand towards Iraq. "There will appear in it (i.e, Iraq) some people who will recite the Quran but it will not go beyond their throats, and they will go out from (leave) Islam as an arrow darts through the game's body.'"

Bukhari Book 9 Volume 84 Hadith 68

After the Battle of Hunain the Prophet (s) - in distributing the booty - gave preference to a number of non-Muslims. His aim was to attract them to Islam Hurqus ibn Zuhair. rebuked the Prophet (s) by saying to him: "Be just in your distribution O Messenger of Allah."

The Prophet was incensed by this remark and responded by saying:"Then who can be called just if I am not just?"

To this the Prophet added:

"There will come a time when a group of people will leave our ranks. They will recite the Quran with fervour and passion (lit. "With tongues that are moist".) but its spirit will not go beyond their throats. They will leave our ranks in the manner of an arrow when it shoots from its bow."

Bukhari Book 4 Volume 53 Hadith 378

“There will come towards the end of time a group of people, young men, they have the most grandiose visions, they are speaking the best speech that you will ever hear of any man. But they will leave Islam like an arrow leaves its prey.”

Sahih Bukhari 4770, Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi

"ORIGIN OF KHAWARIJ"

Hazrat Abu Saeed Khudri Radiallahu Anhhu narrates that we were in the company of Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam while he was distributing booty. Zul Khuwaysarh, a man from Banu Tameem, came to him and said “oh messenger of Allah be just” so he said “may you be destroyed! Who will be just if I am not just? Verily you are deprived and in loss if I’m not just”. Umar Radiallah Anhu said “oh messenger of Allah give me permission to cut his head off”. He replied “leave him for he has companions that one of you would consider your Salah insignificant compared to theirs and you would consider your fasts insignificant compared to theirs.

They read the Quraan but it does not go beyond their throats. They will deviate from Deen the way an arrow deviates away from the target. Its shaft will be looked at and nothing will be found in it, then its spine will be looked at and nothing will be found in it. Then its head will be looked at and nothing will be found in it, then its fletching will be looked at and nothing will be found in it. It would outstrip the intestines and blood. Their sign will be a black man, one of his upper arms will be like a breast of a woman or like a piece of flesh that is hanging. They will come out at a time when the people are divided.



Abu Saeed Radiallahu Anhu said “I bear testimony that I heard this hadeeth from Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam and I bear witness that Ali Radiallahu Anhu fought them while I was with him and he ordered that this person should be found so he was brought. I witnessed that he was exactly the way Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam described him.



Zulkhuwaysarh was the forefather of the Khwarij as can also understood from the hadith below

"And when he (Zulkhuwaysarah) turned away he (Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said verily from the back of this person will come out a nation that will read the Quraan but it will not go beyond their throats. They will deviate from Deen the way an arrow deviates away from the target. They will wage war against the Muslims ignore the idol worshippers. If I were to find them I would destroy them as the nation of Aad was destroyed.

Sahih Bukhari 509, 472

RULING ON KILLING KHWARIJITES

That man then returned. Khalid b. Walid then said: Messenger of Allah, should I not strike his neck? Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: Perhaps he may be observing the prayer. Khalid said: How many observers of prayer are there who profess with their tongue what is not in their heart? Upon this the Messenger of Allah (SallAllah-u-Alaihi-wa-Sallam) said: I have not been commanded to pierce through the hearts of people, nor to split their bellies (insides). He again looked at him and he was going back.

Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: There would arise a people from the progeny of this (man) who would recite the Qur'an glibly, but it would not go beyond their throats; they would (hurriedly) pass through (the teachings of their) Deen just as the arrow passes through the prey. I conceive that he (the Holy Prophet) also said this: If I find them I would certainly kill them as were killed the (people of) Thamud.
[Sahih Muslim: Book 005, Number 2319]

Ali said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (SallAllah-u-Alaihi-wa-Sallam) as saying: There would arise at the end of the age a people who would be young in age and immature in thought, but they would talk (in such a manner) as if their words are the best among the creatures. They would recite the Qur'an, but it would not go beyond their throats, and they would pass through the Deen as an arrow goes through the prey. So when you meet them, kill them, for in their killing you would get a reward with Allah on the Day of Judgment.
[Sahih Muslim: Book 005, Number 2328]

The Khawaarij (Kharijites) are one of the deviant sects, as is proven by the texts and by scholarly consensus. Al-Bukhaari (6934) and Muslim (1068) narrated that Yusayr ibn ‘Amr said: I said to Sahl ibn Hunayf: Did you hear the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say anything about the Khawaarij? He said: I heard him say – and he gestured with his hand towards Iraq –: “From there will emerge people who recite the Qur’an, but it will not go past their collarbones. They will pass out of Islam as an arrow passes out of the prey.”

Ibn Maajah (173) narrated that Ibn Abi Awfa said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “The Khawaarij are the dogs of Hell.”

Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.

May Allah Protect us from the fitna of kharijites. Ameen.

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