Let's Try Part 2

seekshidayath wrote: As'Salamu Alaikum,       I would like to know if "bidah" leads to hell. I remember reading a hadith that if someone innovates in a religion, it is n't accepted. Such people are deprived at Aal-Kawthar. I wish our members to share there knowledge with us here regarding this discussion

1. "Every innovation is a misguidance and every misguidance goes to Hell fire" - Sahih Muslim. (accord. to Imam Shaafi, the arabic translation of  "Kullu bida'tin daiala" does not mean 'all bidaah' but 'nearly all' or 'vast majority' of bidaah i.e. 'good innovations' that can be substantiated thru sources is not included in the above category. http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/Articles/English/BID'AH%20-%20Innovation%20in%20Islam.htm

2. Prophet Muhammad before talking to his companions about religion, would start by saying "...and the best speech is the Speech of Allah, and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad , and the worst of all affairs are the newly invented matters (in the religion)." (Muslim)

4. Prophet Muhammad also said "I warn you of the newly invented matters (in the religion), and every newly invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Hellfire." (an-Nisaa'ee)

5. The Messenger () of Allah said, "I have left behind me two things, if you cling to them you will never go astray. They are the Book of Allah and my Sunnah." (al-Haakim) 

 6. And he () also said, "..and you will live to see great difference, so cling to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me, even if it be with your teeth." (Bukhari)

7. The Prophet () also said "..so he who follows my Sunnah has been guided, and he who follows the innovations has been destroyed." (Ahmad)

1. Imam Abu Hanifah said: "Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf, and beware of the newly invented matters for all of it is innovation." [Sawnul Muntaq of as-Suyutee pg.32]
2. Imam Malik said, "He who innovates an innovation in Islam regards it as something good, has claimed that Muhammad has betrayed his trust to deliver the message as Allah says, "This day have I perfected for you your religion".   [al-I'tisaam]

1. The Sunnah shall become corrupted and this corruption would become the norm, so much so that the people who follow the Sunnah would become as strangers, and those that call to purifying the Sunnah would be slandered and reviled. The Prophet (PBUH) said, "Islam began as something strange, and it shall return as something strange as it began. So Tooba (a tree in paradise) to the strangers." It was asked, "who are the strangers?" He replied, "those that purify and correct what the people have corrupted of my Sunnah." (Tabaraanee in al-Kabeer [6/202])

   The same site also mentions the Quranic Verse of Surah Nisaa as referring towards bidaah :  "Whoever contends with and contradicts the Messenger after guidance has been clearly conveyed to him, and follows a path other than that of the Faithful Believers, We shall leave him in the Path he has chosen and land him in Hell, what an evil destination!" [An Nisa 4:115].