Abu Hurayrah narrated the authentic hadeeth which says: “At the beginning of every century, Allah will send to this ummah someone who will renew its religious understanding.”
On a new century day, the first of Muharram 1400AH, the masjid Al-haraam in Makkah experienced a terrible seizure led by a Saudi militant (Juhayman Utaybi) and his men.
The great mosque was seized by a group of 500 men under Utaybi’s leadership, included are several women and children who had joined Utaybi’s movement. A siege lasted more than two weeks before Saudi special forces broke into the mosque.
It was some minutes to start salaatul fajr when the worshippers were interrupted by insurgents who produced weapons from under their robes, chained the gates, shut and killed some policemen who were not listening to them. They took defensive positions in the upper levels of the mosque, and sniper positions in the minarets, from which they commanded the grounds. No one outside the mosque knew how many hostages remained, how many militants were in the mosque and what sort of preparations they had made.
Juhayman claimed his justification for the siege was that the House of Saud had lost its legitimacy through corruption and imitation of the West and in tandem with the hadeeth of the Prophet, the mahdi(renewer/redeemer of Islam) has arrived in the form of his brother-in-law Muhammad Abdullah Al-Qahtani and called on the Muslims in the mosque to give bay’ah(allegiance) to him. His followers embellished the fact that Al-Qahtani’s name and his father’s name are identical to Prophet Muhammad’s(salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) name and that of his father, and developed a saying, “His and his father’s names were the same as Muhammad’s and his father’s, and he had come to Makkah from the north”, to justify their belief.
The revolution ended two weeks after the takeover began by the Saudi Special Forces, advised by GIGN French commandos and the mosque was cleared. Al-Qahtani was killed in the recapture of the mosque while Juhayman and 67 of his fellow rebels who survived the assault were captured and later beheaded.
The king secured a fatwa from the Council of Senior Scholars which found the defendants guilty of seven crimes:
1: Violating the Grand Mosque’s sanctity.
2: Violating the sanctity of the month of Muharram.
3: Killing fellow Muslims and others.
4: Disobeying legitimate authorities.
5: Suspending prayer at Masjid Al-haraam.
6: Erring in identifying the Mahdi.
7: Exploiting the innocent for criminal acts.
The Saudi government during the Juhaiman saga accused the Yemen salafi scholar(Sh. Muqbil) of being the author of juhaiman’s books and was imprisoned for three months before he was deported to his country Yemen.
That was the reason why he kept criticizing the government because he felt they treated him unjustly until when he said he recanted.
In his book titled “Mashaahadatii fi mamlakatil Arabiyyah” with preface by Sh. Yahya Hajuri, Sh. Muqbil while receiving free medical treatment in Saudi said he recanted from all his criticism of Saudi Arabia government.
Although Sheikh Ibn bazz used to send some token fund to him for his madrasah in Yemen when he was deported.
Most of the Juhaiman’s “Jamaa’atu salafiyah Muhtasibah” were the boyz of Sheikh Ibn bazz who consider Sh. Albani also as their teacher.
It is the partnership between Sheikh Ibn bazz and Sheikh Albani that metamophosized into present day Salafiyyah ilmiyyah (largely discussed in “Salafiyyah On A Grand Scale”)
Sh. Ibn bazz is to Juhaiman as the former mufti before Ibn bazz, Sh. Ibrahim is to Ikhwani militia, They share their ideas but reject their arm rebellion. Just like Sh. Ibrahim was lenient to Ikhwan militia, so was Ibn bazz lenient with Juhaiman group.
He is Sheikh Muhammad bn Ibrahim Al Sheikh, the Mufti before Ibn bazz, he is the teacher of Sh. Ibn bazz, and arguably the first mufti of the modern Saudi state.
In the book Ayyaam min hayaati by Zainab Gazali, she mentioned her discussion with him with respect to allowing female education.
And this was before Juhaiman, because Juhaiman group were Ibn bazz boys. The father of Juhaiman was among the leaders of the Ikhwan militia who felt betrayed by king Abdul Aziz.
The first Mufti will attend Ikhwanul Muslimeen programme as mentioned by Naasir AlHuzaimiy.
The Nigeria Salafiyyah factions out of ignorance were/are claiming Juhaiman was influenced by Ikhwanul Muslimeen while Juhaiman is at the forefront of criticizing Ikhwanul Muslimeen.
Whenever the consequence of their false manhaj becomes threatening and apparent, they quickly lump them to Ikhwanul Muslimeen.
They blame Sayyid Qutb for Takfir and terrorism because no institution is writing to defend sayyid Qutb, while Sh. Ibn Abdul Wahab is the major culprit who laid the foundation of Takfir and terrorism against fellow Muslims. But there is oil money to redeem him.
Like Sheikh Abdur Rauf Bn Sa’eed(Abu Mazeedatilkhayr) would say: “Your beautiful mansion had caught fire and your neighbour alerted you to it, but rather than mobilizing your children to put off the fire, or counting your losses or mourning yourself on the loss incurred, you begin to shout that your neighbour’s children are wayward. Continue shouting about your neigbour and watching the fire destroy your heritage.”
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Jazaakumu Allahu khayr
May Allaah increase you in knowledge