Is there a good religious innovation (bid'ah)?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this is a Sudanese questioner residing in Riyadh who asks: Is there a good bid'ah (religious innovation) and a bad bid'ah? And what is the ruling, Honorable Shaykh, for the one whose understanding of the ruling on this bid'ah has become confused?

Answer:
There is no good bid'ah (religious innovation), based on his saying: All bid'ahs are bad, and there is nothing good among them. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Every bid'ah is misguidance, every misguidance is in the Fire. So nothing is excluded from bid'ahs. Rather, what is intended by their "good bid'ahs" is what is described as a bid'ah; it is described as a good sunnah (recommended practice). Whoever introduces a good sunnah in Islam, he gets its reward, meaning he revives it; he revives a sunnah that people had abandoned, and he revives it and explains it to the people. Then Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) multiplies his reward for him, so he gets its reward and the reward of everyone who acts upon it and follows him in it. Yes.