(Extracts from "The Perfect Family Virtues of Ahl al-Bayt" - translated by Khalid Williams)

• The last century has seen the emergence of these 'non-traditional' reformist movements as a significant foce, the teachings of which centre around the formal rejection of and strong opposition to the Sunni schools of 'aqidah, fiqh and tasawwuf. This leads to mass accusations of bid'a (reprehensible innovation) and shirk (polytheism) and their precursors centruies earlier, the khawarij, these latter-day reform movements have theologically inbred takfirism making them the khawarij of this age.
• The reformist scholars, now emancipated from the principles of orthodoxy (by rejecting the madhhabs), had the freedom to 'run riot' through the heritage of Sunni Islamic literature, especially the large number of volumes of hadith literature - with nothing deemed sacred, not even the much venerated works of Imam al-Bukhari and Imam Muslim who have been the standard bearers for traditional Sunnis when it comes to hadith authenticity. So venerated were they that for centuries on end till the present day their works are considered the most authentic in Islam second only to the Qur'an itself.  This in itself did not save these hadith compilations from the takhriji attacks of modern reformists (See Kamaruddin Amin, 'Nadiruddin al-Albani on Muslim's Sahih: A critical study of his method', Islamic Law and Society, Vol.11, No.2 (2004), pp.149-176, which shows that al-Albani believed that hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim were according to him not authentic, contrary to the position of hadith scholars for over a thousand years!)