Salah behind a scholar who classes Wahabis and Sunnis as alike

**Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan was asked a lengthy question regarding Salah behind an individual who classes a Wahabi and a Sunni scholar as similar and alike. **

He answers:

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An individual who regards the Wahabis and the scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnat as similar and alike - his statement is enough to take him out of the folds of Islam. To pray Salah behind such an individual (who utters such statements) is invalid [Batil]; similar to praying behind Hindus and Christians.

It is in Fath al-Qadeer: Imam Muhammad narrates from Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Abu Yusuf that Salah is not permitted behind the Ahl al-Bid'at (people of innovation) and deviants.

[Fatawa Razwiyyah - Volume 6 - Pages 637 & 638]
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**Translated by Muhammad Kalim (Preston)
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