When the students of knowledge want to ask about the condition of other (students of knowledge or scholars), then they should refer their question to the headquarters of The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Fataawa in Riyadh in order to ask about them.

After all, are these the people who are returned to for Fataawa and knowledge or not? And whoever has any information about the condition of specific people, then it is possible for him to write a letter to the headquarters of The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Fataawa, explaining to them what he knows about them so that they might look into it.

That way, if there is any (Tajreeh) or (Tahdheer) warning against someone, then it comes from those who are returned to and depended upon for Fataawa, and from those who knowledge is taken from. And there can be no doubt that the proper place to turn to for Fataawa in these matters is the same place that should be returned to in order to find out from whom Fataawa should be sought. And from whom should we seek knowledge?

Furthermore, no one should try to establish himself as the one who is returned to for these important matters!

Because, from the good Islaam of a person is his leaving off that which does not concern him!

al-Allaamah, Muhaddith-ul-Madeenah, ash-Shaykh ‘Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad