The Distinguishing Signs of Ahl al-Bid’ah – (The People of
Innovation)1
Translated by Abu ʿIyaaḍ
Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1417 AH / November 1996 CE
Abū ʿUthmān al-Sābūnī (d. 449H) (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:
“And the characteristics [resulting] from [the effects of] innovations upon their people are obvious and manifestly clear. The most apparent of their signs and characteristics is the severity of their enmity and hatred towards the carriers of the narrations of the Prophet (صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ), their disdain of them, their scorn of them [considering them to be valueless] and naming them with Ḥashawiyyah (Worthless People), Jahalah (the Ignorant), Ẓāhiriyyah (Literalists), and the Mushabbihah (those who liken Allāh to the creation). [And this], due to their belief [concerning] the narrations of the Prophet (صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ), that they are devoid of any knowledge and that the [real] knowledge is that which Shayṭān throws at them from the results of their corrupt intellects, the dark whisperings of their chests [i.e. souls], the false notions of their hearts [which are] empty of any goodness, their words and proofs which are devoid of truth and their unjustified and futile doubts.
1 From: ʿAqīdat al-Salaf wa Aṣḥāb al-Ḥadīth (p. 101-107) of Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī.
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