Imām Mālik – Allah have mercy on him – said: Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid’ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don’t accuse him of […]
ʿAbdullah b. Zayd Al-Numayrī reports that Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī said: They (the heretics) were destroyed by their inability in Arabic (al-‘ujmah). Al-Bukhārī, Al-Tārīkh Al-Kabīr Vol.5 p99. And Imām Al-Shāfi’ī said: People didn’t become ignorant and didn’t differ amongst themselves except because they left Arabic and leaned towards the language of Aristotle. Quoted by Al-Suyūṭī in Ṣawn […]
Al-Fudayl b. ʿAyyāḍ [187H] – Allah have mercy on him – said: “Allah ‘azza wa jalla accepts only those deeds which are both correct and sincere (pure). If the deed is done correctly but not sincerely, it will not be accepted. And if it is sincere but not correct, it will not be accepted.” He […]
Imām Al-Shāfi’ī said: Whenever any people of desires (heretics) came to Mālik he would say to them, “As for me, I am upon clarity as regards my religion. As for you, you are a doubter, go and argue with another doubter like yourself.” Al-Dhahbī in Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā’ under the biography of Imām Mālik.
Abū ‘Uthmān Sa’īd b. Ismā’īl Al-Naysābūrī (d290H) said: Whoever governs himself by the Sunnah – in word and deed – will speak with wisdom. But whoever governs himself according to his own desires will speak heresies (bid’ah); because Allah tabāraka wa ta’ālā said: And if you obey him (the Messenger) you will be guided. [Sūrah […]
‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar – Allah be pleased with them both – said: Every bid’ah (religious innovation) is misguidance, even if people think it is good. Al-Lālakā’ī in Sharh Usūl I’tiqād Ahl Al-Sunnah wa Al-Jamā’ah Vol 1. P134, no.111; and Ibn Battah in Al-Ibānah Al-Kubraa Vol.1 p219, no. 213