What is the difference between additional innovation (bid'ah) and relative innovation (bid'ah)?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the difference between additional innovation (bid'ah) and relative innovation (bid'ah), and what is the example of the event?
The Shaykh:
Additional and relative are the same. Whether it is called additional or relative, the basis of the matter is prescribed, and then something is added to it. Adding something to the prescribed matter is additional, because you have added to the prescribed matter something that is not prescribed. Yes.
The questioner:
The statement of the Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
For example, saying “Call upon Allah at such-and-such a time” when there is no evidence specifying that time, or saying “Call upon Allah such-and-such a number of times, one hundred times, three hundred times, one thousand times” when there is no evidence for the number, this is additional innovation (bid'ah). Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the difference between additional innovation (bid'ah) and relative innovation (bid'ah), and what is the example of the event?
The Shaykh:
Additional and relative are the same. Whether it is called additional or relative, the basis of the matter is prescribed, and then something is added to it. Adding something to the prescribed matter is additional, because you have added to the prescribed matter something that is not prescribed. Yes.
The questioner:
The statement of the Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
For example, saying “Call upon Allah at such-and-such a time” when there is no evidence specifying that time, or saying “Call upon Allah such-and-such a number of times, one hundred times, three hundred times, one thousand times” when there is no evidence for the number, this is additional innovation (bid'ah). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [185 /1350] ما الفرق بين البدعة الإضافية والبدعة النسبية؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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