The Ruling on Dividing Religious Innovations into Five Categories
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is your opinion regarding the comment of the annotator on the book *Shurb al-Murad* when he said, regarding the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), "Every bid'ah (religious innovation) is misguidance": "This is a general statement, and the intended meaning is the obscure bid'ah"?
Answer:
This is a rejected statement. They said this, and some people said this, but just as the author of *Qawa'id al-Ahkam*, al-Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam (may Allah have mercy on him), divided it into five categories, this division is rejected, even if some people hold to it. This is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not exclude anything from bid'ah; rather, he said, "Every bid'ah is misguidance." Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, what is your opinion regarding the comment of the annotator on the book *Shurb al-Murad* when he said, regarding the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), "Every bid'ah (religious innovation) is misguidance": "This is a general statement, and the intended meaning is the obscure bid'ah"?
Answer:
This is a rejected statement. They said this, and some people said this, but just as the author of *Qawa'id al-Ahkam*, al-Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam (may Allah have mercy on him), divided it into five categories, this division is rejected, even if some people hold to it. This is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not exclude anything from bid'ah; rather, he said, "Every bid'ah is misguidance." Yes.
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