Adapted by Saboor Aboo Israaeel from the elaborate writing of AlHasan Olanrewaju Adedokun about them
1)
That they fanatically blind-follow some of the respected noble scholars, while these scholars have themselves warned against this kind of behaviour.
2)
That they force the general people among the laymen and students of knowledge to have a position in every fitnah.
They believe that once "the scholars" (with this, they refer to three mashaayikh) have talked about an individual, you have no right to say you are silent on the matter.
3)
That they go extreme when they love someone and they also go extreme when they hate someone.
So when they love, they overpraise, and when they hate, they overreact and sometimes ascribe to the person what is not his. While there are many, so many, so so many pieces of evidence to buttress this, I will only bring two. (The second one is a very clear proof against them.)
4)
From the extremism, self-conceit, and partisanship of these brothers is that they regard some among them to have reached a level whereby the people can be tested with them.
So whoever says good about them is regarded to be upon goodness, and whoever says bad about them is regarded to be upon falsehood and a deviant.
5)
From the wrong methodologies of these brothers is their vileness, rudeness, and foul-mouthed speech.
You will see them calling people "dog, fool, waste-product, useless animal, maggot" and different derogatory names because "the salaf used to abuse innovators."
6)
Their belief that "the agreement of the three scholars" is like Ijmaa (consensus of the scholars).
7)
From the blameworthy traits in them also is their lack of patience with those who are not upon their beliefs, whether from among the laymen or from the students of knowledge, or from the scholars.
These brothers claim to be followers of the Kibaar and they would always praise the noble Shaykh Rabee Al-madkhali for being patient with so and so for 10 years before warning against him, and being patient with so and so for 15 years before warning against him, but we do not see them embody that same teaching.
8)
From their beliefs is that if a person known upon sunnah is accused by another person of Sunnah, especially one that is more knowledgeable, then we MUST NOT listen to the accused if he tries to explain himself،
According to this principle, if your Ustadh, whom you have always known upon Sunnah is accused today by another respected scholar, and then your ustadh holds a lecture to explain himself, you must not attend, and you must say, "Shaykh so so has explained that you're misguided, and so we can not listen to you. If the Shaykh changes his stance on you, we will."
9)
Part of our accusations against them is that Abu Abdirrahman, a brother who was once very respected by them and whom they deemed trustworthy (until he warned against them) warned against them and listed 15 accussations against their five major leaders: Abu Anwar Habeeb Arikewuyo, Abu Muhsinah Mubarak Olayemi, Abu 'Affaan Uthman, Abu Kawthar Lukman Abdurrauf, and Abul-Abbaas Abdulkabir Ibrahim.
It has been about a year and not a single one of them has come out to deny. Not a single one.
Click HERE to see the 15-point accusations.
10)
They hide some realities from their followers.
One of them privately admitted that there was a difference of opinion over a matter but hid it.
Two of them (Abu Muhsinah and Abu Affaan) advised the MSSN to invite a lecturer because they understood the need to compromise in order to protect the da'wah, but when the MSSN eventually invited him, they watched and joined on as their followers descended on the MSSN calling them "hypocrites" and all sorts of names.
Also, one of their leaders, Abu Kawthar, read with some brothers three of the accusations of Dr Arafaat against Shaykh Yahya and admitted he felt those accusations were mistakes from the Dr, yet they hide all these affairs.
And there are several more affairs like this. So many infact, that I cited them in a whole PDF.
11)
They let ignorant people do "iqaamatul-hujjah" and often base their rulings on that.
They would say, "sister so and so (a very ignorant person from the awaam) has spoken to him but he did not hear. This happened to me when two of their sisters came to me about a matter. I sent one of them books in Arabiyyah and she asked me to summarize it for her (she could not read it. I knew because I was teaching her Arabiyyah). I later heard she told someone she had spoken to me but I was being stubborn.
12)
They believe that for us to be together, we must be united upon the affair of every single individual. Abu Muhsinah himself said this to me close to three years ago. He said, during the conversation, "look at the SPUBS for example, they always unite on every single individual."
13)
They believe that no scholar in South-western Nigeria deserves to be excused. Meanwhile, some Saudi scholars who have said things they consider great mistakes (Like Shaykh AbdulMuhsin saying testing people with individuals is not accepted) deserve to be excused because of their great contribution to the Sunnah. (We do not liken the local scholars to Shaykh Abdulmuhsin, but the void they fill in Nigeria is perharps more important than the void Shaykh Abdulmuhsin fills in Saudi Arabia).
Also, they say, "we have brought their accusations, yet they did not respond. We say, "15 accusations were brought against you since more than a year too and you did not respond." You have also tasted refutations now and and seen how difficult it is to recant, right?
14)
They believe that if a scholar does not delve into matters regarding some individuals, then he is not defending Salafiyyah.
Sometime ago, I said Dr Sharaf had efforts in defending Salafiyyah and speaking against the famous sects like the Ikhwaanis. In response, one of the brothers, Mutawakkil, wrote, (paraphrased) "someone that did not answer when asked about Halabi, how is that one defending Salafiyyah?"
15)
They subtly warn against some of the scholars that NO MAJOR SCHOLAR has warned against, and they also criticize students of knowledge who do not join them in abandoning those scholars even if those people have the same positions as them.
16)
Their readiness to spread fitan that the people are safe from, and which would cause a great deal of splitting when spread.
17)
Their usage of lies, doubtful matters, and guesses to accuse and talk wrongly about people.
18)
Their delving into matters which they have no knowledge of very frequently. (Especially among the followers).
19)
This is not an accusation but a question to ask them. Ask them that who do they mean when they say: 'the salafis'? Do they mean people who agree with Pristine and Arrisaalah? Or they mean people who follow the path of the Prophet and his companions? If it is the latter, we have some more questions to ask them.
20)
Willingness to blindly defend their leaders and blindly accuse those who go against their leaders.
21)
They innovate principles in the deen and falsely attribute them to the scholars. (As done by Abulabaas Abdulkabir Ibrahim in point 6 and Abdullah Abu Hafsoh recently regarding the issue of Imam Ahmad.) They would say, "the scholars say..." but when challenged to bring where the scholars said it, they would go mute.
