The Obligation of Verifying News by Shaykh Salih Ibn Fawzaan

The obligation of verifying news and respecting the scholars and clarifying their status in the Ummah.

From the causes of separation and differing is listening to liars and slanderers, and to false rumours and propagation which the weak in faith, hypocrites and bias propagate within, those who do not want us to be united upon a single faith and religion.

This is why it is compulsory upon us to verify narrations and to not make haste, as Allah the Exalted has ordered us to verify narrations in that which is specific to the general people of Islamic society, and has made the affairs of public safety, war and the general affairs return specifically to the leaders and scholars