Umar bin Sulaiman Al-Ashqar (; 194010 August 2012)Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar's obituary was a SalafiRichard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 page 302Lange, Christian, editor. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. Brill, 2016. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3. p. 129 scholar associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.Ovamir Anjum1 Salafis and Democracy: Doctrine and Context p. 21 He authored several books about matters on Islamic creed.

Biography Sulaiman Al-Ashqar was born 1940 in Palestine.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 250 He was a descendant from a family known for Islamic scholars and authors in Kuwait and later Jordan. He was one of the most influential writers in Jordan, where he also served as a professor in the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Jordan and the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at Zarqa University. Before his expulsion from Saudi Arabia in the sixties, he was a disciple of Ibn Baz. After his expulsion from Saudi Arabia, he worked in Kuwait and earned a doctorate at the Al-Azhar University.

Creed and theology Publications He authored a number of books on Islam. Among them eight monographs on Islamic creed, including 'in the Light of Quran and Sunnah' (Silsilat al-'aqida fi daw' al-kitab wa-l-sunna).Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 251 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.

Eschatology In his writings 'The Last Day' (al-Yawm al-akhir), he outlines the doctrines of Islamic Eschatology as it has become mostly accepted in Salafi circles. Diverging from previous authors, al-Ashqar does not apply hadith-criticism and does not considered different degrees of soundness of narrations.Kendall, E. (Ed.). (2018). Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 254

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.

In regard to a famous hadith stating that the "majority of inhabitants of hell are women", he defends the piety of women. Rather than blaming women's piety, he states that women are subject to uncontrollable passions and suffer from intellectual deficiencies.

On angels, jinn, and devils Al-Ashqar's 'Alam al-jinn wa'l-shayatin became a major source for many Salafi authorities, on matters of jinn and devils, including many scholars of the Egyptian authorities of the Ansar al-Sunnah.Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-0-710-31356-0 page 302 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.Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-0-710-31356-0 page 73

Similarly, al-Ashqar disregards many other hadiths around angels traditionally accepted.Stephen Burge Angels in Islam: Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's al-Haba'ik fi Akhbar al-malik Routledge 2015 p. 13-14 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.Powers, P. R. (2006). Intent in Islamic Law: Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunnī Fiqh (Vol. 25). Brill. p. 12

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