Allah has sent His Prophet with this religion which encompasses both kinds, that is:

fiqh and tasawwuf

/ ibn abd al wahhab
Whosoever, without adequate knowledge of Fiqh acquired asawwuf would then turn
infidel and inversel! a sinner" He who acquired both became an accomplished
believer"
/imam malik
#ike all other branches of obligator! knowledge of $slam, the attainment of m!stic
knowledge is also obligator!" $t pertains to the states of the heart such as sincere trust
in A##AH, His fear, and surrender to His Will"
/gha%ali
Whoever Practises asawwuf Without #earning &acred #aw 'orrupts His Faith,
While He Who #earns &acred #aw Without Practising asawwuf 'orrupts Himself"
(nl! he Who 'ombines the two proves true"
/imam malik
he &ufi path consists in cleansing the heart from whatever is other than Allah ) $
concluded that the &ufis are the seekers in Allah *s Wa!, and their conduct is the best
conduct, and their wa! is the best wa!, and their manners are the most sanctified"
he! have cleaned their hearts from other than Allah and the! have made them as
pathwa!s for rivers to run, carr!ing knowledge of Allah "+ ,al-.ha%ali, al /unqidh
min al dalal, p" 0102"
+asawwuf is one of the latter-da! sciences of the #aw in the $slamic 'ommunit!" he
foundation of tasawwuf, however, is ,more ancient, as seen in the fact2 that these folk
and their wa! have alwa!s been present among the &alaf and among the most senior
of the 'ompanions and the &uccessors, and their wa! is the wa! of truth and
guidance"+ ,/uqaddimat ibn 3haldun 4
What Abu Hurairah had learnt, and which he was afraid to disclose, was the names of
those !ouths and leaders from 5anu 6ma!!ah - who were beginning to rise to
positions of power and authorit! - at whose hands $slam and the /uslims would
greatl! suffer" 78efer to Fathul-5aaree of $bn Ha9r ,0/:;;-:;< and 01/0:-012=
&ha!kh &aalih ibn >Abdul-?A%ee% al-&ha!kh:
+He did not disclose such ahadith concerning these trials and tribulations ,fitnah2, the
hadith concerning the censure of 5anu 6ma!!ah, or other ahadith of this nature" And
he ,Abu Hurairah2 said the above during the rule of /u?awi!ah,ma! Allah be pleased
with him2, and /u?awi!ah had 9ust re-unified the people after the! had split and
fought each other - the histor! of which is known" &o wh! didn?t Abu Hurairah
disclose these ahaadeeth@ Were the! not the ahadith of Allah?s /essenger,peace be
upon him2@ Aes, but the! were not those ahadith related to &hare*ah rulingsB rather
the! were of another nature" &o wh! didn?t he disclose them@ 5ecause he did not want
to create fitnah amongst the people due to it" hat is wh! he did not sa!: >his is a
true hadith, and it is not permissible for us to hide knowledge"? &ince hiding the
knowledge at the time in which Abu Hurairah was speaking was essential, for he did
not wish to cause splits and divisions between the people after the! had recentl! been
re-unified"""+
7Ad-Cawabit ash-&har?i!!ah li /awqifil-/uslim fil-Fitan, p"1<=
Prophet,peace be upon him2 said: here is no one who testifies that none has the right
to be worshipped eDcept Allah and that /uhammad is the /essenger of Allah
truthfull! from his heart - eDcept that Allah will forbid the Fire to him /u?adh said:
>( /essenger of Allah, shall $ not inform the people and give them the glad tidings@?
He said: Eo, for the! will depend solel! upon it"
$mam an-Eawawi wrote in &harh &ahih /uslim ,0/0<F2:
+Gadi >$!adh, ma! Allah have merc! upon him, said: $n this is a proof for concealing
knowledge due to fear of harm or fitnah, in those matters which not ever!one will be
able to understand" his is with regards to that which does not require action upon it,
nor does it have in it one of the limits from the &hare?ah" he eDamples of this from
the 'ompanions are numerous, in respect of them not relating that which did not
require action upon it nor was there a need to relate it, or not relating that which the
general masses would not be able to comprehend, or that which would cause harm to
the one relating or listening to itB especiall! that which is connected to the reports
about the h!pocrites or those in authorit!B or those reports which specificall! describe
certain sets of people in a bad wa! or in censure of them or curse them"+