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Hazrat Imam Muhammed bin Idris al Shafi'i, the founder of the Shafi'i. School of Jurisprudence for instance, was a man of great piety and scholarship. Yet the followers of Hazrat Imam Abu Hanifa bin Thabit, the founder of the Hanafi School of Jurisprudence fabricated a Hadith to the effect that the Holy Prophet declared: 'There shall be in my ummah a man by the name of Muhammed Idris who will be more dangerous to my ummah than Iblis and there shall be another in my ummah known as Abu Hanifa who shall be the lamp of my Ummah. '57. AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT. To study the full extent of the contempt which the Muslims have shown towards the saints and the scholars of the Ummah may not be possible within the confines of one single book since the history of this. Ummah is replete with the condemnation of its saints and scholars. . Nevertheless, it is ironic that while most anti Ahmadiyya factions pretend a common cause against the Ahmadiyya Community with their association under the banner of the Alami Majlis Tahaffusze Khatamae. Nubuwwat, a pseudo religious organisation of politically motivated mullahs, they continue to hold the saints of each other's community in extreme contempt. . For instance, while most anti Ahmadiyya organisations favourably disposed to the Wahabbia school of thought hold its founder, Hazrat. Imam Muhammed bin Abd al Wahaab in great esteem and reverence,58 their partners in this common cause against the Ahmadiyya. Community the followers of Maulvi Shah Muhammed Abul Aleem. Siddiqui hurl excessive abuse against the revered Imam and his followers and condemn them as ‘looting bandits and heretics of Nejd. ' 59. The Wahabbia movement which took its birth in Arabia is accused of 57. Ibn Iraq, Abu al Hasan Ali bin Muhammed: Tanzih al Shariah. 58. Hasan, S: The Truth About Ahmadiyyat 59. The Muslim Digest, Makki Publications, Durban, South Africa: Vol 37,. No 1 & Vol 38, Nos. 1/2 & 3. July to October, 1987: pg 10 & 3 27