Explanation of the Hadith: (Who are the strangers, O Messenger of Allah? He said: They are those who repair what people have corrupted of my Sunnah after me), continuing the discussion on the topic
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The Shaykh : The second hadith: The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was also asked, "Who are the strangers, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i) This is also a clear and obvious state of estrangement... All strangers share this nature: they call for reviving the Sunnah and killing off religious innovation at a time when realities have been inverted, so the Sunnah has become an innovation and the innovation has become the Sunnah. When people are told, "This is an innovation," they say, "O you who are zealous for Allah, you deny the sending of salutations to the Messenger, you deny the remembrance of Allah, you deny miracles, you deny, you deny," and he denies nothing of the truths ever. Rather, he denies illusions and ideas that people have adopted over the passage of time until they became part of their creed. Therefore, they reject with the strongest rejection those strangers who say, "This is the Sunnah, so adhere to it, and what you are upon is the innovation, so cease from it."
Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i) The third and final narration, which applies to some people, not all of them, among these strangers is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): "Al-Nazza' is the plural of nazee', and the nazee' is the one who left his homeland. It is said, so-and-so left his homeland, meaning he emigrated from it. But his emigration from his homeland was in the way of pleasing his Lord (Mighty and Majestic). This is when he finds himself in a society where he is unable to practice the Sunnah and call to it, so he emigrates, just as the first emigrants emigrated from Makkah to al-Madinah to be able to perform the Islamic rites. History must repeat itself, as it is said. Likewise, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said that in the last of time, the strangers are the al-nazza' from the tribes who leave their lands and homelands for other lands to be able to perform the Shari'ah of Islam in the correct manner based on the Book and the Sunnah. So these are the strangers, and that is the reward of these strangers: for them is bliss in Paradise .
