Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar

Sulaiman Al-Ashqar was born 1940 in Palestine.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250 He was a descendant from a family known for Islamic scholars and authors in Kuwait and later Jordan.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250 He was one of the most influential writers in Jordan, where he also served as a professor in the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Jordan and the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at Zarqa University.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250 Before his expulsion from Saudi Arabia in the sixties, he was a disciple of Ibn Baz.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250

Even though he was commonly known to oppose physical coercion of religious law, after violent events between activists and merchants of the Medina market, he was accused of being a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir and put to prison for several months until expelled.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 250-251

After his expulsion from Saudi Arabia, he worked in Kuwait and earned a doctorate at the Al-Azhar University.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250

He authored a number of books on Islam. Among them eight monographs on Islamic creed, including 'in the Light of Quran and Sunnah' (Silsilat al-'aqida fi daw' al-kitab wa-l-sunna).Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 251 In 1998, the Saudi publisher al-Dar 'Alamiyya li-l kitab wa-l-sunna' agreed to translate eight volumes of the series into twenty-five languages, including 'Endtime', a work about Islamic Eschatology, first published in English in 1999.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 251

In his writings 'The Last Day' (al-Yawm al-akhir), he outlines the doctrines of Islamic Eschatology as it has become mostly accepted in Salafi circles. Diverging from previous authors, al-Ashqar does not apply hadith-criticism and does not considered different degrees of soundness of narrations.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 254

In contrast to some proto-Salafis, such as Ibn Qayyim, who served as a inspiration for his methodology, he rejects the doctrine of "annihilation of hell" (fanāʾ al-nār).{{cite book |last= Lange|first= Christian|author-link= |date= 2016|title= Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions|url= |location= Cambridge United Kingdom|publisher= Cambridge University Press|page= |isbn=978-0-521-50637-3}}{{rp|p=284}} In his interpretation of related hadiths, he asserts that only those who stick close to the Quran and the Sunnah go to paradise, while those considered deviant, such as Mu'tazilites and Kharijites go to hell temporarily, while groups he considered wholly outside the fold of Islam such as Isma'ilis, Alevites, and Druze, go to hell forever.{{rp|p=285}}

In regard to a famous hadith stating that the "majority of inhabitants of hell are women", he defends the piety of women.{{rp|p=285}} Rather than blaming women's piety, he states that women are subject to uncontrollable passions and suffer from intellectual deficiencies.{{rp|p=285}}

Al-Ashqar's 'Alam al-jinn wa'l-shayatin became a major source on for many Salafi authorities, on matters of jinn and devils, including many scholars of the Egyptian authorities of the Ansar al-Sunnah.Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-0-710-31356-0 page 302 Here, al-Ashqar disagrees with the majority of Classical Sunni authorities in that the devils were originally angels, and sides with an originally minority view held by Hasan al-Basri i.e. that the jinn are of the genus of Iblis.Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-0-710-31356-0 page 73

Similarly, al-Ashqar disregards many other hadiths around angels traditionally accepted.Stephen Burge Angels in Islam: Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's al-Haba'ik fi Akhbar al-malik Routledge 2015 {{ISBN|978-1-136-50473-0}} p. 13-14 He furthermore neglects past scholars who held such views.

For al-Ashqar, humans, angels, and jinn belong to the three beings designated as muqallaf, i.e. beings holding legal responsibilities.Powers, P. R. (2006). Intent in Islamic Law: Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunnī Fiqh (Vol. 25). Brill. p. 12

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