[2] He was a member of the Council of Senior Scholars[1] and Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas in Saudi Arabia.

[4] Ibn Jibrin was born in 1933 in a village near the town of al-Quway'iyya in the Najd region in Saudi Arabia.

[10] Iraqi Islamic scholar Ali al-Sistani, a leading Shia, has also criticized Ibn Jibrin, accusing him of exacerbating tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq.

In regard to Muslims having contact with non-Muslims he states that "being a companion to them and showing love for them" may be forgiven if the goal of these acts is to convert them to Islam: "It is allowed to mix with the disbelievers, sit with them and be polite with them as means of calling them to Allah, explaining to them the teachings of Islam, encouraging them to enter this religion and to make it clear to them the good result of accepting the religion and the evil result of punishment for those who turn away.

For this purpose, being a companion to them and showing love for them is overlooked in order to reach that good final goal.