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.