Clips: Erase your sins in two minutes and repeat the dhikr

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Recently, a number of video clips have spread, the content of which is this phrase: "Erase your sins in two minutes," and it involves repeating the dhikr of Allah, "Subhan Allah wa bihamdih" (Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him) one hundred times. He asks: Is this matter and what is similar to it permissible, or is it among the bid'ah (religious innovations)?

Answer:
My brother, we have a legal principle from the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who innovates things in our affairs for which there is no valid (reason) (commits sin) and these are to be rejected.

من احدث في امرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو رد

Sahih Muslim 1718a

And in a narration,

He who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.

من عمل عملا ليس عليه امرنا فهو رد

Sahih Muslim 1718b

. Another hadith:

Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error.

واياكم ومحدثات الامور فان كل محدثه بدعه وكل بدعه ضلاله

Sunan Abi Dawud 4607Sahih (Al-Albani)

As for acts of worship, it is sufficient for us to follow what has come in the texts from the Book and the Sunnah, and what the Salaf (the earliest generations) of this Ummah (the Muslim community) were upon, and we do not introduce new things in worship.

Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، أول كتاب اللباس — islamhouse.com (1:00:54)

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