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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the existence of a good religious innovation (bid'ah) in Islam

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Excellency the Shaykh. This questioner says: Is there a good bid'ah (religious innovation) and a bad bid'ah in Islam?

Answer:
It exists among the people of superstition, but the people of the Sunnah and the community (Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah) do not have a good bid'ah, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said
every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an errorكل محدثة بدعة وكل بدعة ضلالة
Sunan Abi Dawud 4607Sahih (Al-Albani)
and he did not say that every bid'ah has goodness in it and misguidance in it; rather, he (peace and blessings be upon him) generalized it, saying: every bid'ah is misguidance. So the one who says that there is a good bid'ah is contradicting the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
Source هل يوجد بدعة حسنة في الإسلام؟ — alfawzan.live

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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