Who are Jahmis or Rafhidis?

Answer 1

Answer 1

I don't see any difference between praying salah behind a Jahmi or a Shia Rafidhi and a Christian or a Jew.

They (Jahmis/Rafhidis) are not to be greeted, nor are they to be visited, nor are they to be married, no is their testimony to be accepted, nor are their sacrifices to be accepted.

Imam Bukhari (Khalq Af'aalul-'Ibaad, p.14)

The Jahmiyya are the followers of Jahm ibn Safwan. Bukhari narrated in the first chapter of his "Khalq Af`al al-`Ibad" that Jahm once came out of his house saying: "Allah is the wind and everything else." Ibn Hajar in the introduction of "Fath al-Bari" defined his sect as: "Those who deny Allah's attributes which the Book and the Sunna affirm, and who

1. The Jahmiyya claimed that if a person receives knowledge, then disavows it with his tongue, he does not commit disbelief with such a disavowal.

2. The Jahmiyya claimed that disbelief in Allah (al-kufr billah) is but ignorance of Allah.

3. They say that the Qur'an is created.

4. They claim that Allah is in every place in His Essence .

5. They claim that Eeman is indivisible and its subscribers are all in one-and-the-same category .

6. They say that there is no jum`a prayer, nor congregational prayer, nor `Eid prayer.

7. They say that whoever does not say that the Qur'an is created is a disbeliever.

8. They contradict the narrations of the Prophet (saw) and the Companions (ra).

9. They instill doubt in the people concerning their Religion.

10. They say that there is no punishment in the grave, nor intercession.

11. And say neither Paradise nor the Fire are yet created.

What Jahm alone said is that Paradise and the Fire shall pass away and become extinct; that belief is only knowledge of Allah and nothing else; that disbelief is but ignorance of Allah and nothing else; that no act is anyone's doing in reality, other than Allah's alone, and that it is His doing. Jahm used to profess the ordering of good and the forbidding of indecency. He also used to say that the Qur'an is created and that it must not be said that Allah has always been cognizant of things before they take place.

Some of the scholars, among them Ahmad ibn Hanbal, said that the Jahmi is a disbeliever and it is related that al-Bukhari said: "I hold as ignorant whoever does not declare the Jahmiyya to be disbelievers."

Answer 2

Rafidi is an abusive word usually used by Sunni Muslims against Shia Muslims. it means out of religion.

Answer 3

Jahmi and Rafidi refer to two distinct groups of people and are pejorative terms for those groups of people, meaning that those are terms that have a bad connotation. The proper term for Jahmi is Mu'tazilite and the proper term for Rafidi can be any non-Sunni Muslim, including Shiites, Alawites, Alevis, Ibadis. Using the improper terms is insulting in the same way that you would not call a Black person a Negro.

Mu'tazilites

The origin of the term "Jahmi" comes from the fact that much of Mu'tazilite philosophy originates with the controversial Khorasani philosopher Jahmi. The main reason for the split Sunni-Mu'tazilite split was: Whether Islamic Law should be viewed through the lens of rational thought or purely Divine Edict.

The Mu'tazilites developed as a school in Baghdad that taught that a rational outlook on the Qur'anic traditions and the discussion of God, postulating a creation of the Qur'an, actual time-bound actions of God, and momentary attributes. In contrast, mainstream Sunni Islam at the time endorsed the idea that everything about God was co-eternal with Him (including any speech he made or books he revealed). While Mu'tazilites had power in Baghdad for roughly 200 years, they slowly waned and were "outvoted" by traditional Sunni theology.

Non-Sunnis

The term Rafidi derives from the term "rejector" and was used to describe only the rejection of Abu Bakr's right to rule. There were numerous groups that objected to that right either at the time (like the Shiites) or later (like the Ibadis, the Alawites, and the Alevis). They objected for quite different reasons in each case. In the Shiite case, it was because they believed that 'Ali and Mohammed's family in general were the proper successors. In the Ibadi case, it was because they believed Abu Bakr was not pure enough in thought and deed to rule the Muslims. All of these groups are very different in their beliefs within the overarching umbrella of Islam and to color them with the same brush makes little sense.