Following the funeral of an innovator
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it permissible to follow the funeral of an innovator, whether the innovation is one that increases in sin or one that makes one an open sinner?
Answer:
If it is one that entails disbelief, no. But if it is not one that entails disbelief and he is a Muslim, there is nothing wrong with it; you follow the people because he is a Muslim. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it permissible to follow the funeral of an innovator, whether the innovation is one that increases in sin or one that makes one an open sinner?
Answer:
If it is one that entails disbelief, no. But if it is not one that entails disbelief and he is a Muslim, there is nothing wrong with it; you follow the people because he is a Muslim. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما يكره مع الجنازة من نياحة أو نار — islamhouse.com (52:08)
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