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"My Lord increase me in knowledge,
I beseech you for knowledge which is fruitful & beneficial,
I seek refuge in you from a useless knowledge,
My Lord, expand my chest, & make easy for me my task, & loosen the knot from my tongue, & make the people understand my speech,
Oh Allaah, give me the desire & the ability to act upon my knowledge,
Oh Allaah, instill within me, a love for the knowledge of your perfect Deen,
& increase me in love for the learned; the 'ulamaa,
& Oh Allaah let not my knowledge cause me to become proud or arrogant"
Aameen.

These people today who go by the name 'salafi' are neither worthy of the name, nor do they fit the description.

The word salafi or 'early Muslim' in traditional Islamic scholarship means someone who died within the first three hundred years after the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), including scholars such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi'i, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Anyone who died after this is one of the khalaf or "latter-day Muslims".

They do not follow the way of the salaf in any matter of this deen, whether in matters of fiqh, or even aqida.

Funnily, these same characters claim to be Athari/Hambali too but once again, what they follow in terms of fiqh & aqida is not in-line with the teachings of the majority of the early hadith scholars or Imam Ahmad ibn Hambal (ra).

Strangely, they all seem to follow BLINDLY the teachings of Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya & chiefly, his teacher Ibn Taymiyya; who is not even from the era of the salaf; he lived from 661-728 AH; a long time after the era of the salaf. To top it off, he himself was accused of being many things in his own lifetime; including a munafiq. You don't have to take my word for it, I'll provide you with evidence:

al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani mentioned about Ibn Taymiyya in his al-Durar al-Kamina (1:153-155) from Najm al-Din Sulayman ibn `Abd al-Qawi al-Tufi al-Hanbali (d. 716 AH) who said:

He became convinced that he was a scholar capable of independent reasoning (mujtahid). Henceforth he began to answer each and every scholar great and small, past and recent, until he went all the way back to `Umar (r) and faulted him in some matter. This reached the ears of the Shaykh Ibrahim al-Raqi who reprimanded him. Ibn Taymiyya went to see him, apologized, and asked for forgiveness. He also spoke against `Ali (r) and said: "He made mistakes in seventeen different matters."
(A few lines later al-Tufi said)...
Others considered him a dissimulator (munafiq) because of what he said about `Ali:... namely, that he had been forsaken everywhere he went, had repeatedly tried to acquire the caliphate and never attained it, fought out of lust for power rather than religion, and said that "he loved authority while `Uthman loved money." He would say that Abu Bakr had declared Islam in his old age, fully aware of what he said, while `Ali had declared Islam as a boy, and the boy's Islam is not considered sound upon his mere word.... In sum he said ugly things such as these, and it was said against him that he was a hypocrite, in view of the Prophet's -- Allah bless and greet him -- saying (to `Ali): "None but a hypocrite has hatred for you."

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