Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar

Umar bin Sulaiman Al-Ashqar (; 194010 August 2012) was a Salafi scholar associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. He authored several books about matters on Islamic creed.

Biography Sulaiman Al-Ashqar was born 1940 in Palestine. He was a descendant from a family known for Islamic scholars and authors in Kuwait and later Jordan. In 1998, the Saudi publisher al-Dar 'Alamiyya li-l kitab wa-l-sunna' agreed to translate eight volumes of the series into twenty-five languages, including 'Endtime', a work about Islamic Eschatology, first published in English in 1999.

In contrast to some proto-Salafis, such as Ibn Qayyim, who served as an inspiration for his methodology, he rejects the doctrine of "annihilation of hell" (fanāʾ al-nār). In his interpretation of related hadiths, he asserts that only those who stick close to the Quran and the Sunnah go to paradise, while those considered deviant, such as Mu'tazilites and Kharijites go to hell temporarily, while groups he considered wholly outside the fold of Islam such as Isma'ilis, Alevites, and Druze, go to hell forever. Here, al-Ashqar disagrees with the majority of Classical Sunni authorities in that the devils were originally angels, and sides with an originally minority view held by Hasan al-Basri i.e. that the jinn are of the genus of Iblis.

Similarly, al-Ashqar disregards many other hadiths around angels traditionally accepted. He furthermore neglects past scholars who held such views.

For al-Ashqar, humans, angels, and jinn belong to the three beings designated as mukallaf, i.e. beings holding legal responsibilities.