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layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: "Did the Salaf declare a particular individual a disbeliever?"
hijri: "Safar 29, 1446"
source: "Gharatul Ashritah 2/291"
lang: en
locale: en
date: 2024-09-02
category: [fatwas,audios]
note: false
active: audios
excerpt: "Takfir of a particular individual who commits what would necessitate disbelief due to it, then there is nothing wrong in making takfir of him."
translated_by: "Abu Hatim Muhammad Faruq"
mp3: "https://www.muqbel.net/files/fatwa/muqbel-fatwa4337.mp3"
article_taken_from: 
  taken_from:
    - web_title: هل يجوز تكفير المعين
      web_url: https://www.muqbel.net/fatwa.php?fatwa_id=4337
muftis:
  shaykh: 
    - name: "Shaykh Muqbil Ibn Hadi Al-Wadi'i"
      url: "/biography/muqbil/"
---

### Question:
Is it allowed to declare a particular individual a disbeliever and did the Salaf in the past declare a particular individual a disbeliever?

### Answer:
Takfir of a particular individual who commits what would necessitate kufr (disbelief) due to it – by either going against clear proofs or making something haram into something halal, then there is nothing wrong in making takfir of him – but with the condition, as has preceded that he commits what would necessitate kufr due to it, otherwise it is as the Prophet ﷺ said as is found in the ‘Sahih (authentic)’ **"Whoever says to his brother ‘O kafir’, if it is as he says then so, otherwise it returns back to him."**

As for cursing a particular individual like the one who sinned from amongst the Muslims, then that which is correct is that it is impermissible, because the Prophet ﷺ said to ‘Umar in the incident when he said to Nu’ayman as is found in Sahih Al-Bukhari: **“May Allah disgrace you, how many times have you been bought out?” So the Prophet ﷺ said: "Do not aid the Satan upon your brother"**. 

So the like of the takfir on a particular individual who commits what would necessitate kufr due to it – then Imam Ash-Shafi’i (may Allah Ta'ala have mercy on him) said concerning Hafs Al-Fard: **“He is a kafir due to the fact that he says: the Qur’an is created”**.