Is the permissibility of innovation in religion in matters that are part of the original Shari'ah derived from the hadith of 'Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is the permissibility of innovation in religion in matters that are established in the original Shari'ah derived from the hadith of 'Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa, as some people claim and call it additional innovation?

Answer:
There is no innovation in religion, neither original nor additional. There is no innovation in religion. Additional innovation is when a thing is prescribed in its original form, and then you come and add to it. You add to it.
For example, voluntary fasting in general. You restrict the general fasting to specific days; this is an innovation. You fast in general whenever it is convenient for you, but if you restrict it to specific days that the Lawgiver did not restrict it to, this is additional innovation and is not permissible. Tasbih and takbir are prescribed, but if you assign a specific time for them without evidence, or a specific number without evidence, this is additional innovation. Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) entered upon a group of people in the mosque who had gathered pebbles, and one of them was saying, "Say Subhan Allah one hundred times, Allahu Akbar one hundred times." He rebuked them with the strongest rebuke. He (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "This is an innovation, this is an innovation, and it is not permissible." So if the addition is from one's own opinion, what is the original? It is not permissible. It is not permissible for us to restrict what the Shari'ah made general, or to make general what the Shari'ah restricted. Rather, we follow the Shari'ah in this. Yes, and innovations are not permissible in any case, and no one beautifies them or approves of some of them. Every innovation is misguidance, every innovation is misguidance.