Ibn Jibrin

Shaykh
Ibn Jibrin
TitleAllamah
Personal
Born1933 (1933)
Died13 July 2009 (aged 75–76)
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceAhl al-Hadith
CreedAtharism
Movement
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Jibrin (Arabic: عبد الله ابن عبد الرحمن ابن جبرين, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jibrīn; 1933 – 13 July 2009), known simply as Ibn Jibrin, was a Saudi Islamic scholar who was a member of the Council of Senior Scholars[1] and Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas in Saudi Arabia.[2]

He was a member of the Council of Senior Scholars[1] and Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas in Saudi Arabia.[2]

Ibn Jibrin's death in 2009 was widely mourned in Saudi Arabia.[3] He is often considered the third most leading Saudi Salafi scholar after Ibn Baz and al-Uthaymin.[4]

Career

Ibn Jibrin was born in 1933 in a village near the town of al-Quway'iyya in the Najd region in Saudi Arabia.[5]

He received his secondary school certificate in 1958, a bachelor's degree in Shariah in 1961, master's degree in 1970 from the Higher Institute for the Judiciary, and a doctorate in 1987.[6] "Several judges, teachers and religious callers were taught by him".[7]

Views

He has been described as a member of the "hard-line conservative schools of Sunni Islam who have deemed Shias as infidels.[1] Commenting on Shias in 2007 (during height of Shia Sunni sectarian violence in Iraq[8]), Ibn Jibrin said: "Some people say that the rejectionists (Rafida) are Muslims because they believe in God and his prophet, pray and fast. But I say they are heretics. They are the most vicious enemy of Muslims, who should be wary of their plots. They should be boycotted and expelled so that Muslims spared of their evil."[9] He has been criticized by Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, a political leader of Iraqi Shias.[10] Iraqi Islamic scholar Ali al-Sistani, a leading Shia, has also criticized Ibn Jibrin, accusing him of exacerbating tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq.[11]

After the September 11 attacks Ibn Jibrin, issued a fatwa against hijackings. In regard to Muslims having contact with non-Muslims he states that "being a companion to them and showing love for them" may be forgiven if the goal of these acts is to convert them to Islam:

"It is allowed to mix with the disbelievers, sit with them and be polite with them as means of calling them to Allah, explaining to them the teachings of Islam, encouraging them to enter this religion and to make it clear to them the good result of accepting the religion and the evil result of punishment for those who turn away. For this purpose, being a companion to them and showing love for them is overlooked in order to reach that good final goal."[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c A top Saudi cleric declares Shiites to be infidels, calls on Sunnis to drive them out International Herald Tribune
  2. ^ a b Laura Sjoberg, Women, Gender, and Terrorism, p 45. ISBN 0820335835
  3. ^ Al-Rasheed, Madawi (2018). Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-090174-5.
  4. ^ Al-Rasheed, Madawi (2018). Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-090174-5.
  5. ^ Reem, Abu (13 July 2009). "Allamah Dr. Abdullah Bin AbdurRahman Bin (Ibn) Jibreen (RH) Passes Away". MuslimMatters.org. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  6. ^ Reem, Abu (13 July 2009). "Allamah Dr. Abdullah Bin AbdurRahman Bin (Ibn) Jibreen (RH) Passes Away". MuslimMatters.org. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  7. ^ Al-Harthi, Abdul Mohsin (n.d.). "Sheikh Abdullah Bin Jebreen passes away". Saudi Gazette. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Iraq Body Count". iraqbodycount.org. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  9. ^ A top Saudi cleric declares Shiites to be infidels, calls on Sunnis to drive them out [dead link] Dietmar Muehlboeck | 22 January 2007 | (originally in iht.com)
  10. ^ Shiite leader offers Iraq security plan[permanent dead link] SFGate [dead link]
  11. ^ Clerics seeks end to sectarian violenceWTOP Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Schwartz, Stephen (19 July 2004). "The Good Ayatollah". The Weekly Standard.