Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 11
The Second Century Hijra. The great sufi Junaid of Baghdad, Muhammad Al-Faqeeh,. Imam Malik Bin Ans and Imam Shafa'ee, all were learned saintly men, who were branded as apostates and heretics. . The Imam Abu Hanifa was the founder of the Hanifite School of Jurisprudence, which is one of the four great Sunni schools of. Islam in the Muslim world. He was branded as an apostate and an infidel, and was arrested, imprisoned, tortured, poisoned, and he died as he prostrated in prison. Later his tomb was dug up, his body exhumed and burnt and a dog was buried in his grave, which was made a public lavatory in Baghdad. The benighted priesthood declared that all Hanifites were also out of the pale of. Islam-infidels. This being so, the great majority of non-Arab. Muslims, presumably including our four author-ulemas, Abul. A'la Maududi, Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi and. Phoenix, are all infidels according to their spiritual ancestors and brother ulemas of the second century Hijra. . The Third Century. The great Imam Bukhari whose Saheeh Bukhari is regarded as next only to the Holy Quran, was also branded as an apostate, and three thousand benighted ulemas and mullas had given evidence of apostacy against the Imam. He was exiled from. Bukhara to Khartang, where he found no peace. He prayed in his anguish to Allah, Who soon caused him to die. . Another great learned man was the Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, who was imprisoned and shackled with four heavy chains and was made to walk from Tarsus to Baghdad, where during the. Ramadhan he was lashed in the burning sun, even in the last ten days of the Ramadhan. This savagery of the priesthood was because he said that the Quran was not a creation like the rest of. God's creatures, which he repeated as each lash fell on his back, until he fell down unconscious. . The eight learned sufis like Zunnoon, Sahl Testari, Ahmad. Bin Yahya, Abu Saeed Kharaz, Ibn-i-Hannan, Abu Abbas Bin 11