# Do most Sunnis consider Wahhabis and Salafis to be Sunni?

*The irony: a Wahhabi telling others they are not Sunni*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/6/
- Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (22:29–25:33)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=1349s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/

**Topics:** Salafism and Wahhabism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says it is ironic for a Wahhabi to expel others from Sunni Islam, since most Sunnis do not count Wahhabis as Sunni, while he himself is among the few who do.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he is among the minority who hold that Salafis too should be considered part of the Sunni majority of Muslims.

**Evidence, his words at 23:46:** “it's only a few the minority and amongst at minorities me that says no Salafis too should be park should be considered part of the Sunni majority of Muslims” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=1426s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth answers first that the deen is not Qadhi's father's to decide who belongs. His second point is that Qadhi is himself a Wahhabi, and that the majority of Sunnis do not consider Wahhabis to be Sunni; he says it is only a minority, himself among them, who hold that Salafis too should be considered part of the Sunni majority. He recalls the slogan in parts of India and Pakistan, 'Sunni Shia brothers', with the question of where this third category came from. He says that most Sunnis, the Ash'aris categorically, do not consider Wahhabis Sunni, which makes Qadhi's demand such an irony.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Wahhabi
- Salafi
- Sunni
- Ash'ari
- Shia

## Transcript (machine tier, 22:29–25:33)

[21:52] are mozilla which is an older deviant extremist sect why don't I just declare myself from that and then we wouldn't have an issue he says you know this is how you would and then we don't have an issue with these people I was like a hungry cat or humper attack at our Shasha me and rusev all right so I was like wait a minute

[22:29] Justin Bobby G to start off with first of all first first point last time I checked let me check again yep this are not your dad's thing you know last time I checked this wasn't your dad's thing I'm a disco cha ha nickel via like let's check him out let's check him out let's check him out this was uh this isn't Yasir Qadhi stance dean is it no okay

[23:08] second second point second point second point let me check the record we checked the record and interestingly chef Yasir Qadhi himself is a Wahhabi what hobbies according slfe which our hobbies according to the majority of the smoothly or not sunny and it's only people it's people like me they say now no guys or everybody these all should be kind of sunny just let them

[23:46] it's only a few the minority and amongst at minorities me that says no Salafis too should be park should be considered part of the Sunni majority of Muslims but the majority of Muslim Sunnis do not consider wahabis to be sunny ah ha ha ha

[24:16] this are intriguing so it's like one he's a hobby is telling somebody else to not declare themselves from me so you're thinking ha ha - come food you know they used to say in some parts of India and Baxter they said you know there's a slogan sunni-shia by by a Sunni and Shia brothers so they said they say Sunni Shia bye-bye yet this region McCarthy I that hated this third

[24:54] category come from of the Wahhabis now not me I'm actually quite inclusive I say the hobbies as well are under the Sunni spectrum but most Sunnis no way most Sunnis categorically the a shoddy is do not consider our hobbies to be Sunni Muslims so to start off with this is such an irony ok let's put that aside of course I'm so me - you know this thing of somebody asked here question about Martha silly just to define that

[25:32] Martha city is an extreme extinct sect from early Islam it emerged on extremist grounds that anybody and this is what this was the pillar of the creed that any person who commits a sin is no longer a Muslim but he's not a kaffir they came up with a purgatory state they believed that there was this thing this purgatory state called Zillah banal manzil attain any muslim who commits a sin is in that limbo state forever until they don't renew their faith they would chuck them out of Islam

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment sMOOcEVIGDE/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/6/

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