Several prominent Sunni scholars, including Sheikh Suleiman Al-Alwan, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Tarifi, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajjid, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Fawzan, Sheikh Saad Al-Buraik, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Ahmad, and Sheikh Muhammad Al-Saidi, rejected ISIS’s/Daesh claim to a caliphate.
Pashtun Salafi scholar Sheikh Aminullah Salafi has also rejected ISIS’s/Daesh so-called caliphate.