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Sufyān ath-Thawrī (rahimahullāh, d. 161H) said:
الْبِدْعَةُ أَحَبُّ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ مِنَ الْمَعْصِيَةِ الْمَعْصِيَةُ يُتَابُ مِنْهَا وَالْبِدْعَةُ لَا يُتَابُ مِنْهَا
“Innovation is more beloved to Iblīs than sin, because sin is repented from, whereas innovation is not repented from.”
The Hadīth where the Prophet (salallāhu ʿalaihi wasallam) said:
إنَّ اللَّهَ حجَز – أو قالَ حجبَ – التَّوبةَ عن كلِّ صاحبِ بدعةٍ
“Indeed, Allāh withholds or screens the repentance from every person of innovation.” (Reported by aṭ-Tabarānī in al-Awsat (no. 4214; 5/113); al-Bayhaqī in Shuʿab al-Imān (5/449, no. 7238); Ibn ʿAdiyy in al-Kāmil fid-Duʿafā (6/257); and graded sahīh by al-Albānī in as-Silsilatus-Sahīhah (no. 1620) with a slightly different wording)
Shaikhul-Islām Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhāb (rahimahullāh) said that Allah, the Most High, said: This has been reported from the hadīth of Anas (radiyallāhu ʿanhu). Ibn Waddāh mentioned from Ayyūb who said:
كَانَ عِنْدَنَا رَجُلٌ يَرَى رَأْيًا فَتَرَكَهُ فَأَتَيْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ سِيرِينَ فَقُلْتُ: أَشَعَرْتَ أَنَّ فُلَانًا تَرَكَ رَأْيَهُ قَالَ: انْظُرْ إِلَى مَاذَا يَتَحَوَّلُ إِنَّ آخِرَ الْحَدِيثِ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَوَّلِهِ
“There was a man among us who held an opinion, then he abandoned it. So, I went to Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn and said: ‘Are you aware that so-and-so has abandoned his opinion?’ He replied: ‘Look to what he turns to next. Indeed, the latter part of the ḥadīth is more severe upon them than its beginning:
يَمْرُقُونَ مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ كَمَا يَمْرُقُ السَّهْمُ مِنَ الرَّمِيَّةِ ثُمَّ لَا يَعُودُونَ إِلَيْهِ
‘They will pass out of Islām just as an arrow passes through the prey, then they will not return to it.’ Read further and download to your device here: Download PDF
