What is your opinion on the claim that Ibn Taymiyyah had a bid'ah (religious innovation)?
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The questioner:
What is your opinion of the one who says that Ibn Taymiyyah had a bid'ah (religious innovation), and that others among the Salaf (the earliest generations) had a bid'ah?
The Shaykh:
I do not know what this talk is; this is the talk of a madman, apparently it is not correct talk. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, O questioner.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Taymiyyah forbade things; did he spend his life forbidding bid'ah (religious innovations), shirk (associating partners with Allah), and newly invented matters, and did he have a bid'ah? Or did those before him among the Salaf (the earliest generations) have a bid'ah? Apparently, this is a madman who does not know what he is saying. Yes.
What is your opinion of the one who says that Ibn Taymiyyah had a bid'ah (religious innovation), and that others among the Salaf (the earliest generations) had a bid'ah?
The Shaykh:
I do not know what this talk is; this is the talk of a madman, apparently it is not correct talk. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, O questioner.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Taymiyyah forbade things; did he spend his life forbidding bid'ah (religious innovations), shirk (associating partners with Allah), and newly invented matters, and did he have a bid'ah? Or did those before him among the Salaf (the earliest generations) have a bid'ah? Apparently, this is a madman who does not know what he is saying. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما رأيكم في قول أن لابن تيمية بدعة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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