The Shaykh’s warning regarding the 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”) and an explanation of how this phrase contradicts all the texts mentioned

The Shaykh : And you hear in many occasions statements uttered by some who claim affiliation with knowledge, but this is not the knowledge whose path is what I mentioned earlier: 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 affiliate themselves with knowledge, or claim to the masses that they are among the people of knowledge, you hear them say, 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 indication that this speaker and those like him have not referred to the texts we mentioned earlier, which obligate them to pay attention to the guidance and light of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). So the statement of these people that “the methodology of the Salaf is safer, and the methodology 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 way...