Some people say: "Whoever innovates a single bid'ah (religious innovation) is a misguided innovator." Is this correct?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. The questioner says: Some people say that whoever innovates a single bid'ah (religious innovation) is a misguided innovator. Is this correct? And when does a person become an innovator? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Bid'ah (religious innovation) is that for which there is no evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. Bid'ah is an act for which there is no evidence from the Book of Allah or from the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). As he said , so bid'ah is every act by which a person seeks nearness to Allah for which there is no evidence. And bid'ah only exists in acts of worship. Does bid'ah not exist in customs? Such as clothes, vehicles, and buildings. This is a linguistic bid'ah, but not a legal one. Bid'ah is only in acts of worship.
Whoever introduces into our matter an act for which we have no command, it is rejected, meaning it is rejected against him. And those who know bid'ah and define it are the scholars. It is the scholars who rule on bid'ah.
Based on evidence and knowledge. As for students of knowledge, beginners, and the common people, they have no right to judge people as innovators or as those who deviate without knowledge. It is obligatory for the student of knowledge to be gentle and to be careful in matters, and to ask the people of knowledge. And bid'ahs differ.
Some are major bid'ah, some are minor bid'ah, and some are medium bid'ah, according to the deviations. Bid'ahs are not of one type.
But a person is not judged to be an innovator except by a scholar of the Book and the Sunnah. So throwing accusations of bid'ah at one another without knowledge and without understanding is a great danger.