Check mate. This is the logical conclusion of the Salafi mindset: If “Ya Muhammad” is shirk, it would mean Imam Tirmidi, Bukhari, plus 20+ other classical hadith scholars, plus 300,000 *Hanbali Atharis* who encouraged and transmitted the hadith and practiced it, are all mushriks. https://twitter.com/classicalmuslim/status/1308285248023609345

Sadly these people do not see the enormity of their utterances. It’s partly not their fault because their books from the Hanbalis are edited. Making shafa’a (tawassul) through the Prophet ﷺ was a norm for hanbali scholars when they signed off their works. Salafis cut these out. https://twitter.com/salafisunveiled/status/1275495864304353280

They come to their conclusion, through nothing other than a MODERNIST reading of the religion, through the layman efforts of Albani, who suddenly, after 1300 years of no controversy around this, suddenly decides “weaken” these hadiths and calls it “major shirk”.