Scholars and Students of Knowledge

Shaykh Rabi and Shaykh Zayd – Trusted Scholars

Shaykh Salih al-Luhaydan affirms that Shaykh Rabiʿ ibn Hadi al-Madkhali and Shaykh Zayd ibn Muhammad al-Madkhali are scholars of sound ʿaqīdah, graduates of the Islamic University in Madinah, and loyal to the Salafi methodology. He advises listening to their books and tapes, while noting caution with scholars not personally known.

August 31, 2016

Questioner:

There are many books and tapes of some of the scholars, such as Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī, Shaykh Zayd ibn Muḥammad al-Madkhalī and Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Najmī, so do you advise with listening to their tapes and [reading] their books, and are they from the scholars of this Ummah?

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Luhaydān:

In regards to Shaykh Rabīʿ and Shaykh Zayd, the two Madkhalīs – then I know them both very well. They are people of [sound] ʿaqīdah and loyalty to the ʿaqīdah. Shaykh Rabīʿ as it is known, is a graduate of the Islamic University in al-Madīnah, and he is from the students of Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz and [those of] his rank, so the man [Shaykh Rabīʿ] is an excellent man! And likewise [Shaykh] Zayd from the tribe of “al-Madākhilah” and he is also known for the same affair.

As for [Shaykh] Aḥmad al-Najmī, then I do not know him personally, and as the poet previously said: “Do not praise a person until you have tested him, and do not criticise him without trying him.” However, if he is upon the same methodology as the [aforementioned] two, then nobody would call them and gather with them and traverse their path except the one who is like them.