Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Jibrin (; 193313 July 2009), known simply as Ibn Jibrin, was a Saudi Islamic scholar who was a member of the Council of Senior Scholars and

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in Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the Council of Senior ScholarsA top Saudi cleric declares Shiites to be infidels, calls on Sunnis to drive them out
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in Saudi Arabia.Laura Sjoberg, Women, Gender, and Terrorism, p 45. Ibn Jibrin's death in 2009 was widely mourned in Saudi Arabia. He is often considered the third most leading Saudi Salafi scholar after Ibn Baz and al-Uthaymin.

Career

Ibn Jibrin was born in 1933 in a village near the town of al-Quway'iyya in the

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region in Saudi Arabia. He received his secondary school certificate in 1958, a bachelor's degree in Shariah in 1961, master's degree in 1970 from the Higher Institute for the Judiciary, and a doctorate in 1987. "Several judges, teachers and religious callers were taught by him".

Views

He has been described as a member of the "hard-line conservative schools of Sunni Islam who have deemed Shias as infidels. Commenting on

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s in 2007 (during height of Shia Sunni sectarian violence in Iraq), Ibn Jibrin said: "Some people say that the rejectionists (''Rafida'') are Muslims because they believe in God and his prophet, pray and fast. But I say they are heretics. They are the most vicious enemy of Muslims, who should be wary of their plots. They should be boycotted and expelled so that Muslims spared of their evil."A top Saudi cleric declares Shiites to be infidels, calls on Sunnis to drive them out
Dietmar Muehlboeck , 22 January 2007 , (originally in iht.com) He has been criticized by Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, a political leader of Iraqi Shias.Shiite leader offers Iraq security plan
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, a leading Shia, has also criticized Ibn Jibrin, accusing him of exacerbating tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq.Clerics seeks end to sectarian violence
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Ibn Jibrin, issued a fatwa against hijackings. In regard to Muslims having contact with non-Muslims he states that "being a companion to them and showing love for them" may be forgiven if the goal of these acts is to convert them to Islam:

"It is allowed to mix with the disbelievers, sit with them and be polite with them as means of calling them to Allah, explaining to them the teachings of Islam, encouraging them to enter this religion and to make it clear to them the good result of accepting the religion and the evil result of punishment for those who turn away. For this purpose, being a companion to them and showing love for them is overlooked in order to reach that good final goal."

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