Shadee Elmasry – Understanding Bidah- Not EVERY Innovation is Misguidance

Today, we are gonna talk about, and

we're gonna talk about

the hadith

of

Every innovation

is a misguidance.

Alright. That's what we're gonna talk about. And

we're gonna read from ibn Hajjar al Asqalani,

imam al Nawawi, ibn Abdulbar,

ibn Hajjar al Haytami. There's 2 ibn Hajjrs

here.

And We're gonna read from 6 books. When

you hear always hear, that's an innovation.

This is a bidah. So you gotta pay

attention because, well, are all bidah as 1?

So for example, if you go to a

community and every single person after a,

immediately they shake your hand,

to. Every single.

Well, that's an innovation.

Is that an innovation at the same level

of

believing that Adam evolved?

Or are there a gradation of innovations?

That's the question we're gonna answer.

Alright. First one. First reading. Let's read the

first from Ibn Hajjar al Asqalani.

In this hadith, the worst of affairs or

newly invented

affairs.

First condition.

Does not have

any

basis in the. So the first thing is

let's def define

death and even Hajar says here,

death that which is considered brand new, and

we call that thing that has no

origin in the Sharia.

The technical term for that in Sharia is

and that which does have an origin

in the Sharia,

it has a a a root

that the Sharia points to would not be

considered

a bidah. So the word bidah in Sharia

is blameworthy,

unlike bidah in language, which could be good.

Right? In language. When we say in language,

for example, someone innovated a piece of technology.

That's fine.

Benefited people with it. So in language, linguistically,

not a problem.

Anything that is totally brand new that there's

no

connection to it in the past,

linguistically,

we call it

a whether it's good or bad. So someone

invents a nuclear bomb, he innovated something. Someone,

created this assembly line, that's an also another

innovation or inventing a car or inventing a

phone, whatever. So

linguistic innovation is, that can anything that's new.

So he points to another hadith. He says

the definition of this bidah is found in

said Aisha's hadith.

Whoever innovates something in this affair of ours,

meaning in religion, not in technology, not in

medicine, not in anything else in religion,

that which is not from it, for it's

rejected.

And he says that he went over this

in other books and in other chapters

and beware of newly invented matters. Every innovation

is a misguidance.

These hadith are all similar to one another.

He quotes now his imam, because I've been

Hajjar is a chef. He quotes a chef.

That which is in line with the sunnah

is

praiseworthy.

Mahmoud.

That which contradicts the sunnah is blameworthy.

So here, the great imam, Asha Fa'id, is

dividing innovations

into 2 categories,

that which is blameworthy

and that which is,

praiseworthy. And how do you judge it? You

you compare it against the sharia.

A very simple example opening up a Quran

school, right, and saying, from 9 to 10,

you guys review. From 10 to 11, you

memorize the new chapters. From 10 to 11,

you

maybe learn some language so that you can

memorize the Quran easier. From 12 to 1,

you go and study the Quran again. Who's

telling where did that come from? Things like

that. So he says now let's re keep

reading.

New matters. New matters. Things you could say

the Sahaba never did it. The prophet never

did it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be.

New matters are of 2 types. That which

is a newly invented matter, but it contradicts

the book, the sunnah, the athar, meaning the

sayings of the early salaf and the early,

Muslims.

It contradicts it or Ijma of the Muslims.

That is the bidah that leads astray.

That which is invented of good. You came

up with something new. Like, what's his example

in lifetime that he approved of?

The addition

additional words to the of

Eid. However, they he went to Egypt, and

he found the Egyptians had added to it.

So Imam, that is an invention. They added

words to the takbeer that the prophet

gave when

approved of it. So a chef himself

is saying now that newly invented matter

that does not contradict

the book, the sunnah, the other, and the

each mark,

then that is something that is an invention

in the deen that is not blameworthy.

And some of the

have divided up the bid out in action

into 5 categories.

That which is permitted, that which is recommended,

that which is obligatory, could be obligatory.

That like, using a mic for salah.

They're gathering the Quran in the time of

the Sahaba.

That bidah, that is

discouraged and that bidah, that is forbidden.

We're reading Ibn Hajar an bida. So the

first

bida is ibn Hajar is saying here. The

first bida was tadween al hadith

through my tafsir Quran, get writing down hadith,

writing down the tafsir of the Quran, and

these are and then writing down issues of

fiqh and chapterizing them.

And then and then having opinion

in matters in which the text is not

clear. All these are innovations that came, and

you have to, in each time,

assess what is guided from this and what

is not.

And then

he's saying, basically,

the matters of the heart, to write that

down. That was not not something the Sahaba

did. So what is envy? How do we

define envy? What are the states of the

heart, etcetera?

So as for the first one,

Omar and Abu Musa had issues

with much writing down of Hadith because they've

why? In in itself, no. They feared

error,

and they feared Tasahul,

taking it too lightly.

And but most of the companions,

they recognize his values.

So here in every new matter, there is

an ish there is some debate happening here.

So when Hadith was documented,

even

began was hesitant

because he saw that this thing could go

astray.

There could be errors here, and there were.

We do see that. So now that we're

documenting, hadith, give it some time, and a

whole group of people

began lying about the prophet peace upon him.

And that's why document or or they were

very sloppy about

transmitting from the prophet peace upon him. So

means you have to be extremely cautious about

these new matters.

And what he's gonna say here is take

only what is absolutely necessary.

Of course, you have to write hadith. It's

an absolute necessity as you have to document

the Quran and write that into a book.

These things are absolutely necessary. There's no discussion.

So what's in it? What are examples of

the categories of innovations? Where recite here from

Al Aizib Nabd Salaam

being cited by Ibn Hajj Al Askalani in

Fatihl Bari.

Aksam will bidati Khamsa, the categories of innovations.

Remember, we're talking about innovations of actions, not

innovations of.

Innovations of can render you out of Islam

altogether

or an a heretic and a sect and

an an innovator where you're a Muslim, but

your good deeds don't count or simply wrong,

but but you're still within and your good

deeds count for you or even permitted. So

their bidah and that we're not discussing right

now. He's talking about bidah in actions,

and we're citing from.

And he gives an example of

an obligatory

innovation, something the prophet

never did. And he says, getting busy learning

grammar.

Studying grammar. Because only by studying language, vocabulary,

and grammar, and,

syntax and morphology.

Can you understand the words of Allah and

his prophet

and the Sharia and upholding the Sharia as

an obligation?

Preserving the Sharia as an obligation.

So you can't understand the Sharia without understanding

Arabic. So the study of Arabic is a

on

the ummah.

It's a communal obligation. Every generation, some people

have to preserve the Arabic language and and

study it and teach it. So that is

an example of an obligatory innovation.

You explaining

words that are in hadith that are unknown

or that are,

unique or that are not well known

and also

documenting the methodology

of deriving rulings.

And likewise, it's an obligation,

to separate

sound hadiths

from unsound hadiths.

Got reading here from Al Aizib Nabdas Salam's

5 categories of innovations.

And an example of the forbidden innovation.

Beliefs, and he actually

is now bringing up.

What is forbidden?

And this would even be more than forbidden.

It would be put you out of at

his sunnah,

completely.

The beliefs of the, the beliefs of the,

the beliefs of the,

anthropomorphists,

or

other sects in the history of Islam. And

there are some innovations, so he went to

the edges, the obligatory and the forbidden because

those are the important ones. Now let's go

to the recommended innovation. Well, Manduba,

every good deed that didn't happen in the

time of the prophet, peace be upon him.

Gathering for prayer,

building schools,

and having,

citadels

and and citadels the citadels where you used

to guard

the land and there's been no no no,

invading army for

years years years, they ended up becoming schools.

Right? They just become schools because the guards

have nothing else to do.

Speaking about the matters of the heart.

What is envy, how to get rid of

envy, how to draw near to Allah with

your heart, etcetera, etcetera.

And debates the the gatherings where you debate

heretics, debate the shia, debate the qadari, debate

the

debate the Christians

if this,

reward of Allah

is sought. In other words, not just for

the sake of argumentation.

What about a that which is?

Innovations that are simply permitted.

Musa shaking hands and Musa

That's what happens in Tareem and now you

know where they

how how far back their Usul are in

Tareem,

Darul Mustafa, they have al Musafaha

where everybody shakes everyone's hands after and after

Asr. They do that in an organized fashion.

So he's saying this permitted.

Having a big home, having a nice car,

having nice clothes. It's an innovation. The Sahaba

never did this.

They didn't go out buying,

building nice homes for themselves and eating nice

foods. They never went out trying to go.

There's a new restaurant. Let's go check it

out. They never did this.

So he says, hello. It's permitted.

Yeah.

And what about the discouraged innovations?

Some of this that he's talking about that

is what's considered either recommended or permitted,

another person may have a perspective that is.

So most of our brothers

who would object to certain things like the

gatherings of the,

the,

All of that is within the differed upon

matters of discouraged, permitted, or even recommended innovations.

So that's where you you

will start to realize that a lot of

times when we put a stake you know,

what's the phrase? Put our,

flag down or, you know, draw a line

in the sand, there is some

opinion about that.

Right? There is an opinion about that and

so it's not all

and it and it could be multiple valid

opinions.

Depending on the situation,

it could deem them

to both have different perspectives just like there

are different opinions in fiqh.