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Dividing religious innovation into good and bad, and the definition of religious innovation

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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! He says: What is the validity of the statement that bid'ah (religious innovation) is divided into two types, good and bad?

The Shaykh:
This is an invalid statement. There is no division in bid'ah; it is all misguidance. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error.فإن كل محدثة بدعة وكل بدعة ضلالة
Sunan Abi Dawud 4607Sahih (Al-Albani)
He did not mention that there is anything good in bid'ah. This is only the claim of the opponents who came later, who want to promote bid'ah by calling it "good bid'ah." There is never anything good in bid'ah. Yes.

The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, this is a question.

The Shaykh:
But some people think that anything that contradicts their understanding or their desires becomes bid'ah. Bid'ah is what is newly introduced in the religion that is not part of it. Bid'ah is any act of worship for which there is no evidence from the Book of Allah or the Sunnah of His Messenger. This is bid'ah. Yes.
Source وجوب لزوم الجماعة والسمع ج2... — alfawzan.live (51:30)

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