Bidat-Scholars

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Bidat

Imam Ibn Munzur(rah) the author of Lisaan ul Arab(work on lexicography) the outstanding book on Lughat, ………Prophet (ﷺ) said: Hold fast onto my way and the way of 4 rightly guided caliphs [Refer to Sunnan Abu Dawud Hadith # 4607]Just like it the hadith which states: Every new matter is Bidah (and every bidah is misguidance) then “THAT IS ALSO ATTRIBUTED ONLY TO THOSE THINGS WHICH GO AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF SHARIAH, WHEREAS THOSE WHICH ARE IN CONFORMITY OF SUNNAH WILL NOT BE CALLED BIDAH”[ Lisaan ul Arab, Volume No. 2, Pages 37-38, Published by Dar us Sadir, Beirut, Lebanon]

Hafidhh Ibn Taimiyyah writes: “Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal would place his hand on the grave of a person who had just died and then supplicate to Allah”. He also says: “There were some people from amongst the Salaf who would never narrate a Hadith of (Rasoolallah ﷺ) without performing wudhu (ablution)”. [Ibn Taimiyyah in Al-Tawasul page 90]

Hafidhh Ibn Taimiyyah did not refer to the above as innovations even though both acts are not evident from the life of (Rasoolallah Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,) or the rightly guided Khalifa s. This clearly proves that the Salaf believed that it was permitted to do something which did not oppose the Qur’an and Sunnah of the Messenger (ﷺ)

Abu Hurairah (ra) would do masah (wiping) of his neck during wudhu.

Umar (ra) would put water in his eyes and do masah of the ears.

Abdullah Ibn Umar(ra) considered it virtuous to walk along the same routes which the Prophet [May Allah bless Him and grant Him peace] used in his lifetime also to stop where the Prophet [May Allah bless Him and grant Him peace] stopped, and to perform wudhu where (RasoolAllah ﷺ) performed it.

Abdullah Ibn Umar (ra) would also touch with his hands the places where (Rasoolallah ﷺ) sat to obtain Baraka (blessings). [Qaydah Jaleelah page 223 by Hafidhh Ibn Taymiyyah]

Examples from Classicla scholars muhadiseen who believe in Good biddah
Imam Muhammad Bin Idrees Bin Abbas Ash-Shafai (204 H)
Imam Abu Abdullah Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al-Qurtabi (380 H)
Imam Ali Bin Ahmad Ibn Hazm Al-Undalasi (456 H)
Imam Abu Bakar Ahmad Bin Hussain Al-Bahaqi (458 H)
Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al-Ghazali (505 H)
Imam Abu Zakariya Muhai-ud-Din Bin Sharf An-Novavi (676 H)
Imam Hafiz Imad-ud-Din Abu-ul-Fida Ismail Ibn-e-Kasir (774 H)
Imam Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Bin Musa Ash-Shay’tabi (790 H)
Imam Abd-ur-Rehman Bin Shahab-ud-Din Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbli (795 H)

Imam Abu-ul-Fazal Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Muhammad Ibn-e-Hajar Asqlani (852 H)
Imam Jalal-ud-Din Abdur-Rehman Bin Abu Bakar As-Suoti(911 H)
Imam Abu-ul-Abbas Ahmad Bin Muhammad Shahab-ud-Din Al-Qustlani (923 H)
Imam Ahmad Shahab-ud-Din Ibn-e-Hajar Al-Mecci Al-Haismi (974 H)
Imam Mulla Ali Bin Sultan MuhammadMulla Al-Qari (1014 H)
Sheikh Abdul Haq Muhadis Dehlvi (1052 H)
Sheikh Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Muhammad Ash-Shokani (1255 H)
Allama Shahab-ud-Din Syed Mahmood Aa’losi (1270 H)
Nawab Sadiq Hassan Khan Bhopali (1307 H)
Molana Shabir Ahmad Usmani (1369 H)
Ash-Sheikh Muhammad Bin Alvi Al-Maliki Al-Mecci (1425 H)

Some examples of Bid’ah Hasana—Punctuation in the Qur’an,Names of Surahs written in the Qur’an,Mihrabs in the Masjid,Minarets of Masjid,Taqleed of the four schools of Fiqh,Fixing congregational prayer times with the clock times, Collection of Hadiths in form of Books, Inventing of Fiqh branch of Islam ,Fatwas by ulemas .All the these actions are good biddahs but never went against Quran ,Shariah Hadiths or Islam and hence no one ever made a cry due to it .

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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