Suhaib Webb – Exploring Bidah- Umars Legacy and Spiritual Innovations

			So he brought them all together for one
		

			jama'ah.
		

			And as they began to pray in one
		

			jama'ah, he said, نعمة البدعة هذه.
		

			He said like, this is the best bid
		

			'ah.
		

			So commenting on this hadith, this statement, excuse
		

			me, this athar of Sayyidina Umar ibn al
		

			-Khattab, Imam Ibn Athir, he says, بدعة, that
		

			bid'ah, نوعان.
		

			There are two types of bid'ah.
		

			And this is the opinion of the majority
		

			of Sunni theologians and scholars.
		

			The minority, which took the opinion of Imam
		

			Malik, even though his madhhab differed with him,
		

			and the opinion of Imam Ibn Taymiyyah, and
		

			Imam Ibn Hazm, and others, they were of
		

			the opinion that every bid'ah is wrong.
		

			The majority of ulama from Ahl al-Sunnah,
		

			as mentioned by Imam al-Dhahabi, who quotes
		

			Sayyidina Imam al-Shafi'i, they divided bid
		

			'ah into bid'ah hasanah, in bid'ah
		

			sayyah, or bid'ah madhmumah, in bid'ah
		

			al-mahmoodah.
		

			I understand that this is controversial, but my
		

			job here is just to present history.
		

			You can go and do the research for
		

			yourself.
		

			But look what Sayyidina Imam Ibn Athir, he
		

			says, بِدْعَةُ هُدَى وَبِدْعَةُ الضَّلَالٍ He said, there
		

			are two types of religious innovation.
		

			Innovation which is leading to guidance, and an
		

			innovation which leads to being astray.