The Shaykh’s commentary on the word “my Sunnah” in the hadith: “I have left among you two matters; you will not go astray as long as you hold fast to them: the Book of Allah and my Sunnah. They will not separate until they return to me at the Pool.”

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The Shaykh : I said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned in the first hadith:

You have been left upon a white, pure path, its night like its day; no one goes astray from it except one who is destroyed.

تركتم على بيضاء نقية ، ليلها كنهارها ، لا يضل عنها إلا هالك

and in that hadith:

and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)

على كتاب الله وعلى سنة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Sunan Abi Dawud 3213Sahih (Al-Albani)

together,

and they shall not split until they meet at the Hawd

لن يتفرقا حتى يردا عليّ الحوض

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3788Sahih (Darussalam)

. As a commentary on the word, or on the word: the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), we should mention that following the righteous predecessors is part of the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Following the righteous predecessors is part of the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), because they were the closest in time to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), especially his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), who received the Shari'ah from him, from his pure mouth, fresh and green, before anything began to seep into it or enter it that was not part of it. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) warned his Ummah against taking what might be innovated for them from newly invented matters. Therefore, he (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered a sermon to them one day, a wonderful sermon that became a constitution for every caller to Islam with the call of truth. This is what came in the hadith of al-'Arba' ibn Sariyah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave us a sermon that stirred our hearts and caused our eyes to weep”. So we said, “O Messenger of Allah, give us advice.” He said:

I advise you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey, even if a slave from Abyssinia is made your leader. Indeed, whoever among you lives will see much disagreement. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs after me. Bite down on it with your molars. And beware of newly invented matters, for every innovation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.

أوصيكم بتقوى الله والسمع والطاعة وإن ولي عليكم عبد حبشي ، فإنه من يعش منكم فسيرى اختلافا كثيرا ، فعليكم بسنتي وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين المهديين من بعدي ، عضوا عليها بالنواجذ ، وإياكم ومحدثات الأمور ، فإن كل محدثة بدعة ، وكل بدعة ضلالة

And in another hadith:

and every going astray is in the Fire

وكل ضلالة في النار

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1578Sahih (Darussalam)

. The point of this authentic hadith is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged his Companions to hold fast to his Sunnah first, then he added to that by ordering us to hold fast to the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs second. For he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

Hold fast to my practice

عليكم بسنتي

. And he did not stop with this command and this encouragement, but he added to it and said:

and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Khulafa'

وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين المهديين من بعدي

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2676Sahih (Darussalam)

. In this hadith, there is a verbal and a conceptual expansion of the Sunnah that was mentioned previously in the earlier hadith,

As long as you hold fast to two things which I have left among you, you will not go astray: God’s Book and His messenger’s sunna

تركت فيكم أمرين لن تضلوا ما إن تمسكتم بهما كتاب الله وسنتي

Mishkat al-Masabih 186Hasan (Zubair `Aliza'i)

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