Explaining the Difference Between the People of the Sunnah and the Righteous Predecessors
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Q348: The questioner asks: What is the difference between the people of the Sunnah and the righteous predecessors?
Vol. 348: The people of the Sunnah are the Salaf, and they are the people of the Sunnah and the community. Whoever holds fast to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), whether he is from the first generations or the later ones, is from the people of the Sunnah and follows the methodology of the righteous Salaf. By the righteous Salaf is meant those who preceded us from the Companions and the Tabi'un of the blessed centuries, and the Imams; all of these are called the righteous Salaf. We follow their example and proceed in their path and footsteps, as said
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He):[At-Tawbah 9:100], and when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the division of the Ummah into seventy-three sects, he said: ; these are the righteous Salaf: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions, and the guidance and faith they were upon, and their holding fast to the Book and the Sunnah. These are the people of the Sunnah and the community, and whoever proceeds in their path and holds fast to their footsteps.
Vol. 348: The people of the Sunnah are the Salaf, and they are the people of the Sunnah and the community. Whoever holds fast to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), whether he is from the first generations or the later ones, is from the people of the Sunnah and follows the methodology of the righteous Salaf. By the righteous Salaf is meant those who preceded us from the Companions and the Tabi'un of the blessed centuries, and the Imams; all of these are called the righteous Salaf. We follow their example and proceed in their path and footsteps, as said
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He):
And the first forerunners [in the faith] among the Muhajireen and the Ansar and those who followed them with good conduct - Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever. That is the great attainment.
وَالسَّابِقُونَ الْأَوَّلُونَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَالْأَنْصَارِ وَالَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوهُمْ بِإِحْسَانٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي تَحْتَهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا ذَلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُAll of them are in the Fire except one." They said: "Who is that, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Whoever is upon what I and my Companions are upon
كلها في النار إلاَّ واحدة". قالوا: من هي يا رسول الله؟ قال: "من كان على مثل ما أنا عليه وأصحابي
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