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The Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said: Whoever imitates a people,
4418قول شيخ الإسلام في مسألة التشبه بالكفار؟📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين
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The Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said: Whoever imitates a people,
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then he is from them. Whoever imitates a people, then he is from them.
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The isnād of the ḥadīth is good.
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Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said
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in his book which is from
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the most beneficial of what can be, especially in the present time: Iqtiḍāʾ
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al-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm li-Mukhālafat Aṣḥāb al-Jaḥīm,
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he said: The least of the conditions of this ḥadīth is prohibition, even if
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its apparent meaning necessitates the Kufr of the one who imitates them. Shaykh—the apparent meaning necessitates the Kufr of the one imitating them.
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Because he said: Whoever imitates a people, then he is from them.
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So what is apparent is that he is from them—a disbeliever. But he is from them in that which he imitated
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them in, among them. So this ḥadīth is indicative of
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what? Indicative of prohibition. And it is the statement
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that is correct, in which there is no doubt: that imitating the disbelievers is ḥarām.