Explaining the importance of adding the condition: "on the methodology of the righteous Salaf" when we call people and say: "Return to the Book and the Sunnah."

The Shaykh : And, your question reminds me of some topics I have touched upon frequently in Egypt, and I have done so here a few times as well. It is not sufficient for us to call people to the Book and the Sunnah only; rather, it is obligatory for us to add to this call: the Book and the Sunnah on the methodology of the righteous Salaf. Do you know why this condition is necessary? This condition here in the Levant, perhaps I have mentioned it a few times, and very few times at that, but in Egypt I felt the importance of this condition very, very much, even among the supporters of the Sunnah. We used to lecture on this specific point for long hours. So, I am reminding you now of some of the hadiths that we constantly and perpetually revolve around.
. They said: Who are they, O Messenger of Allah? He said: . And in the other narration, which is attested to from the hadith of al-'Urbah, he said: . The hadith of al-'Urbah says: . Do you see—here is the point—why the Messenger did not limit himself in the first hadith to mentioning , but rather added to that ? Do you see why the Messenger (peace be upon him) did not limit himself in the hadith of al-'Urbah to saying: , but rather added to that ? Do you see why our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) said in the Noble Qur'an: ? Why did He say: ? Why was the verse not in the following format: "And whoever opposes the Messenger after the clear proof has come to him, We will turn him over to what he has turned to and We will cast him into Hellfire, and We will cast him into Hellfire, and evil is the destination," but rather it came in the Qur'anic text as: ? What is the secret in the verse? What is the secret in the two previous hadiths, that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) did not limit Himself to the warning against opposing the Messenger only, but rather added to that His saying: , and the Messenger himself did not limit himself to mentioning his Sunnah, but rather added to it his Companions and the Rightly Guided Caliphs from among them, specifically?
The secret in this is that when we study the seventy-three sects of the Islamic sects, we do not find a single sect that says: "We disavow the Sunnah." You have the last sect we know of that claims Islam, prays, fasts, and so on, "the Qadiyyah"; they say: "We are upon the Book and the Sunnah." All the sects, even this one, do not disavow the Sunnah. So, each one of the misguided sects says: "We are upon the Book and the Sunnah." The decisive judge comes: ; that is: it is obligatory, for the Muslim to be safe from deviation and to be among the misguided sects, for him not to be among the misguided sects, that he hold fast to what the Companions were upon regarding the concepts of the texts of the Book and the Sunnah. Otherwise, the fundamental misguidance of all these misguided sects did not come from their denial of the Sunnah, let alone the Qur'an, but rather from their denial of the meanings of the Qur'an and the meanings of the Sunnah. They came with new meanings that the righteous Salaf did not know.
For example, the Mu'tazilah, one of the most famous misguided sects that oppose the people of the Sunnah, when they deny the creed of the righteous Salaf which is explicitly stated in the Book and the Sunnah—for example: Do they deny this verse? I say: they deny it and they do not deny it. They do not deny it as a fixed word in the Noble Qur'an; they do not deny it, not a single letter of it. But they deny it when they deny its true meaning. They say, very simply: the meaning is They invalidated the text with a deleted modifier. Our Lord is saying: As if our Lord (Mighty and Majestic), with all the verses and hadiths in which He gave glad tidings to His believing servants that they will enter Paradise, as if it was feared that they would enter Paradise and someone would understand that they do not look at the pleasure of Paradise. So our Lord came with this verse to say to them: ; that is: she is looking toward the pleasure of her Lord, to make it clear to them that you are seeing the pleasure of Paradise, you are not passing by with your eyes closed. This is ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) itself. So, in order for Muslims not to fall into any of these deviations in the future, it is necessary to have the addition we mentioned: the Book and the Sunnah on the methodology of the righteous Salaf. Otherwise, if we leave this methodology, we will be misguided far away and become a sect...