Is it correct that boycotting and warning against the people of innovation and desires is one of the principles of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
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Question:
He says: A book titled "The Consensus of Scholars on Boycotting and Warning Against the People of Innovation and Desires" was published recently. The author of the book stated that this is one of the principles of the people of the Sunnah and the community. Is this correct?
Answer:
Yes, boycotting the innovators and staying away from them is required so that they do not influence those who sit with them, especially the ignorant and the beginners. Therefore, they must avoid the innovators, not sit with them, and not receive knowledge from them, lest they sneak evil upon them. But who are the innovators?
It must be known who the innovator is, because some people label everyone who disagrees with them as an innovator. Bid'ah (religious innovation) has legal criteria, and only the scholars firmly grounded in knowledge know these criteria. Not everyone who commits a sin or a transgression is an innovator.
The innovator is the one who introduces into the religion what is not part of it, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Mishkat al-Masabih 140Muttafaqun 'alayh (Zubair `Aliza'i) He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih Muslim 1718b So bid'ah is introducing something into the religion without legal evidence, or adding to the religion without legal evidence.
He says: A book titled "The Consensus of Scholars on Boycotting and Warning Against the People of Innovation and Desires" was published recently. The author of the book stated that this is one of the principles of the people of the Sunnah and the community. Is this correct?
Answer:
Yes, boycotting the innovators and staying away from them is required so that they do not influence those who sit with them, especially the ignorant and the beginners. Therefore, they must avoid the innovators, not sit with them, and not receive knowledge from them, lest they sneak evil upon them. But who are the innovators?
It must be known who the innovator is, because some people label everyone who disagrees with them as an innovator. Bid'ah (religious innovation) has legal criteria, and only the scholars firmly grounded in knowledge know these criteria. Not everyone who commits a sin or a transgression is an innovator.
The innovator is the one who introduces into the religion what is not part of it, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it, it is rejected.”
صلى الله عليه وسلم من احدث في امرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو ردHe who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.
في روايه اخرى من عمل عملا ليس عليه امرنا فهو رد
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يصح أن الهجر والتحذير من أهل البدع والأهواء هو أصل من أصول أهل السنة والجماعة؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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