Yazid – Abu ‘Alqamah – Abu Hurayrah...

Yazid – Abu ‘Alqamah – Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him: I did not learn it except from the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, he said, “Verily, Allah SENDS TO this Ummah , at the head of every one hundred years, someone who renews its religion for it.”[^12] Commenting on this hadith in his Sahihah , al-Albani states: والسند صحيح رجاله ثقات رجال مسلم The chain is sahih .

Its narrators are thiqah (trustworthy), narrators of ( Sahih ) Muslim.[^13] Who are all these people that have been “appointed for” and “sent to” this Ummah by Allah? The Ahl al-Sunnah generally are locked in a serious debate over who makes…