The Shaykh’s explanation of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me.”

The Shaykh : Here, it is necessary to make an interjection. I heard earlier the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) in the hadith of Anas regarding the group of people Our Messenger (may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him) does not mean by this phrase in this important hadith that whoever leaves, for example, the regular voluntary prayers (rawatib) is not of me. That is not the meaning of the hadith. Rather, the meaning of the hadith is And this varies according to the degree of his distance from following his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family).