The Shaykh’s warning regarding a phrase used by some of the people of innovation: “The methodology of the Salaf is safer, and the methodology of the Khalaf is more knowledgeable and more precise”

The Shaykh : ... And you hear in many occasions statements uttered by some of those who claim affiliation with knowledge, but this is not the knowledge whose path is what I mentioned earlier, namely the Book and the Sunnah and what the Companions were upon. Rather, they mean by knowledge what they themselves understand from the Book and the Sunnah without referring to the infallibility that protects them from being among the misguided sects. Therefore, you find and hear in some of what is published and printed in the present age, in treatises or articles, that many of these people who claim knowledge, or claim affiliation with knowledge, or claim that the masses consider them to be among the people of knowledge; you hear from them someone who says—contradicting all these evidences we mentioned earlier—: “The methodology of the Salaf is safer, and the methodology of the Khalaf is more knowledgeable and more precise”!! This is a clear and exposed defect indicating that this speaker and his like have not referred to the texts we mentioned earlier that obligate them to pay attention to the guidance and light that the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) were upon. So the statement of these people—whether they say “the knowledge of the Salaf is safer, or the Salaf are more knowledgeable, and the knowledge of the Khalaf is more knowledgeable and more precise,” or “the knowledge of the Salaf is safer, and the knowledge of the Khalaf is more knowledgeable and more precise”—means that they have turned away from following the Salaf, whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded to follow their Sunnah...