The Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) Shari'ah policy in training his Companions in the oneness of Allah, even regarding words that are not intended to be such but appear on the surface to be disbelief or shirk, and his prohibition of them from saying them.

The Shaykh : There is no harm in mentioning another hadith: "A thing is remembered by its like", as they say, so that you may know how the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) dealt with his Companions with wisdom and legal policy, perhaps there is a reminder in that, and the reminder benefits the believers:
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"The vision was that while that Companion was walking in one of the roads of Madinah, he passed by a man from the Jews, and the Muslim said to the Jew: 'You are a good people, O Jews, were it not that you associate partners with Allah and say: 'Uzair is the son of Allah.' The Jew responded to him by saying: 'And you are a good people, O Muslims, were it not that you associate partners with Allah and say: What Allah willed and what Muhammad willed.' Then he went on his way and met a man from the Christians, and he said to him: 'You are a good people, O Christians, were it not that you associate partners with Allah and say: Jesus is the son of Allah.' He countered him with the same words as that Jew: 'And you are a good people, O Muslims, were it not that you associate partners with Allah and say: What Allah willed and what Muhammad willed.'" This is the vision that that Companion saw and related to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He said to him: : Why? Because he knew that their intention was not shirk, associating the Messenger with Allah, and although the phrase, in terms of Arabic style, suggests that, but , they do not intend shirk, and they did not believe in Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) except to flee from shirk, but they used to say this word, and it is more fitting for them not to say it, and that is from the etiquettes of Islam: that the Muslim should not say, and should not speak a word that necessitates him to apologize for it or to interpret it with some interpretation, and this is from his (peace be upon him) advice in a hadith that came in two wordings, one concise and the other detailed. The first is his (peace be upon him) saying: , its explanation in the other wording is: This is an etiquette that many students of knowledge neglect, let alone others. I have often heard a question coming from some of them, and I say: 'Perhaps you mean such and such?' He says: 'Yes, by Allah, that is my intention,' but his wording contradicts his intention. Therefore, from the wisdoms that align with this Prophetic etiquette: the speech of the intelligent person comes after his intellect, and the speech of the hypocrite is the opposite of that; he speaks then thinks, whereas the intelligent Muslim thinks then speaks, so that his speech is firm and correct in itself, and he does not need to say: 'Excuse me, I intended such and such, and I did not intend what you understood from me.' The point is: he said to them: :
This hadith is a Shari'ah policy from him (peace and blessings be upon him) in how he was patient with his Companions, hoping that they would return from their own selves to their error. When he saw that Companion having that vision, and that the Jews and Christians were taking the Muslims to task in the same way that the Muslims took them to task—I say "in the same way" because there is a great difference between what the Muslims take the Jews and Christians to task for, which is major shirk, and what the Jews and Christians took the Companions of the Messenger to task for, which is verbal shirk and not creedal shirk.